Increasing healthcare ROI through AI to unlock capacity: Q&A with Sanjeev Agrawal, President and COO of LeanTaaS
A version of this piece was originally published on Becker’s Hospital Review. As part of Becker’s 12th Annual Meeting in April 2022, LeanTaaS gave a half-day summit to explore the role of data in expanding capacity for care. During the event, LeanTaaS President & COO Sanjeev Agrawal discussed in depth how AI is already driving optimized […]
Healthcare analytics must go beyond “admiring the problem”
The world of healthcare analytics — in fact, all analytics — is not monolithic. It ranges from solutions that admire problems to those that prescribe actions to create value. The further hospitals and health systems move to the right of this spectrum (i.e. using analytics that create valuable prescriptions rather than just describing them), the more they will experience […]
Multidisciplinary rounds: how transparent communication reduces inpatient discharge barriers
Those who work in patient throughput are constantly focused on “placing the right patient in the right bed at the right time.” Implementing multidisciplinary rounds (MDRs) is a productive way to help achieve this goal. A patient-centered model of care emphasizing patient safety and efficiency, MDRs enable all members of the patient care team to […]
More than chair counts: using operational factors to maximize infusion center capacity
All infusion centers share the common goal of providing services to meet the needs of as many patients as possible. Before optimal patient scheduling can occur, however, an infusion center must first determine its maximum capacity. Determining an infusion center’s maximum capacity entails two key steps. First is the calculation of a center’s theoretical maximum […]
Transform Spotlight: How Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center reduced infusion patient wait times by 30%
During LeanTaaS’ Summer 2022 Transform event, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) Administrative Director of Nursing, Cody C. Stansel (MSN, RN, NE-BC, OCN, CMSRN), presented on the strategy the center undertook to grow efficiency and reduce infusion patient wait times. The full session, which includes LeanTaaS Senior Product Implementation and Customer Success Manager for iQueue for Infusion Centers, […]
Three questions to ask when managing linked infusion appointments
In certain infusion centers, and in areas of the infusion schedule where there is room to do so, linking a patient’s infusion treatment to other appointments has clear benefits. A patient who can see their oncologist right before or after their treatment saves extra travel time between those separate appointments. Getting pre-infusion labs cleared immediately […]
Transforming operating room utilization at Rush, part 2: plugging data analytics into surgical management
Recognizing its challenges in surgical data governance and operating room (OR) utilization, the 671-bed Rush University Medical Center, which performs 30,000 surgeries per year in 37 operating rooms, began its transformation by aligning its operations, administration, and clinical teams toward the same goals. But Rush needed further resources to make surgical data visible and actionable to […]
Transforming operating room utilization at Rush, part 1: building trust and a data-driven team
A 671-bed academic medical center located on the West Side of Chicago, Rush University Medical Center is driven by a culture of quality, patient-centered care. Rush truly promotes its ICARE values: Innovation, Collaboration, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence. It is not uncommon to meet an employee who has been with Rush for more than 20 years, […]
Leveraging AI to optimize staffing and navigate operational shockwaves in infusion centers
For all infusion leaders, and nursing and schedule leaders — optimizing infusion capacity will be a key topic at LeanTaaS’s Transform Hospital Operations Virtual Summit taking place next week. Through impact story sessions, workshops, and fireside chats, leaders can learn how AI is transforming infusion center workflows. The third LeanTaaS Transform event in partnership with Becker’s Healthcare […]
Better infusion center scheduling in five steps
Nurses, leaders, and staff responsible for infusion center scheduling often feel like they are trapped in a never-ending game of Tetris, and they are far from alone. A five-year survey of the leadership teams of 500+ infusion centers all over the US showed similar ongoing concerns as they try to cobble together daily schedules for […]