Using analytics and partnerships to break through healthcare operations barriers: a conversation with Patrick McGill, MD, EVP, Chief Transformation Officer, Community Health Network
At LeanTaaS’ Transform Virtual Hospital Operations Summit on June 7-8, 2022, Patrick McGill, MD, at that time Community Health Network’s Chief Transform Officer, gave a fireside chat exploring in depth how his health system’s collaborative and learning-driven culture led to data transformation both in operations and in care delivery. View the full talk, with LeanTaaS […]
Beyond all expectations: Highlights from the 2022 KLAS Spotlight Report on iQueue for Operating Rooms
At the LeanTaaS Transform Summer 2022 event, KLAS Research Director Niel Oscarson and LeanTaaS Vice President of Client Services Ashley Walsh presented an overview of KLAS’ recent Spotlight Report on satisfaction among users of iQueue for Operating Rooms and LeanTaaS’ performance as a healthcare technology partner. For a deeper dive, view the full conversation here. […]
Predictive analytics in healthcare projects: Transforming the Baptist Health OR with people, process, and technology
At LeanTaaS Transform 2022, Baptist Health Jacksonville Vice President of Performance Excellence Amy Cate Huveldt (PE, MBA, ASQ, CSSBB) co-presented with colleague Aaron Miri, Senior Vice President, Chief Digital & Information Officer, about scaling digital transformation across their system. In this byline, Huveldt describes Baptist’s strategy for deploying predictive analytics in healthcare projects, and discusses […]
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 […]