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 […]
Learn how to maximize open OR time with AI at LeanTaaS’ Transform Virtual Summit
Are you a healthcare leader looking to maximize open operating room (OR) time? Block your schedule for June 7-8, 2022, and get ready to transform your hospital and OR operational performance with AI at LeanTaaS’s third Transform Hospital Operations Virtual Summit. Hosted in partnership with Becker’s Healthcare, the third Transform event will take place on June […]
Deploying AI to maximize healthcare capacity: announcing the third LeanTaaS Transform virtual summit
In facing the rapid capacity changes, challenges, and opportunities that have arisen in the healthcare industry in recent years, hospitals and health systems are increasingly embracing digital transformation and technology initiatives. LeanTaaS continues to offer solutions to maximize healthcare capacity and guarantee a return on investment. Transform Virtual Operations Summit returns for June 2022 On […]
10 ways to strengthen hospital length of stay management: reduce inpatient census, improve patient experience
Hospital length of stay (LOS) management has become a major priority for healthcare leaders. While reimbursement requirements are a major driver of this focus, reducing length of stay can also decrease hospital-acquired conditions (HACs), which are subject to payment reductions of their own. Efforts to reduce LOS have led to a flurry of research into […]
National Nurses Week: In Conversation with LeanTaaS RNs
To celebrate and honor National Nurses Week, LeanTaaS RNs recently came together to share their experiences in the nursing field. Read on to learn more about their career journeys, perspectives, patient stories, and how their knowledge and passion of nursing has helped inform their work at LeanTaaS. Why did you decide to become a nurse? How […]
Why focus on operating room prime time utilization: a metric for better use of OR time
Many operating rooms (ORs) rely on surgical block time utilization as a key operational metric, and they are not incorrect to do so. Block utilization is an important measure of the overall health of OR time distribution and allocation, and of operating room utilization as a whole. Block time utilization is so broad, however, that […]
Beyond surgical block time utilization: a holistic approach to optimizing the OR
The primary constraint to the timely delivery of patient care is access to often-scarce resources, and fewer resources are more scarce than operating room (OR) time. Available OR time is often in short supply, and the consistently unpredictable demand for it compounds the challenge of allocating and utilizing it optimally. Traditional means of measuring the […]
Becker’s 12th Annual Meeting – highlighting health system capacity management success
On April 26, 2022, as part of the upcoming Becker’s Hospital Review 12th Annual Meeting, LeanTaaS will present a special half-day Transform event. Our experts will partner with health system leaders to discuss the inroads we have made in optimizing capacity during a time when expanding healthcare access with minimal cost is especially critical. The event […]