Using an innovative approach to address critical staffing challenges in operating rooms (Becker’s Hospital Review)
Originally published in Becker’s Hospital Review in February 2022. Reports from the front lines of hospital perioperative departments show a daily, ongoing staffing crisis. Short-handed nurses and other personnel are strained to handle the unpredictable capacity demands of their service lines. These critical shortages of both contracted and full-time staff are driving a cycle that increases costs […]
Helping bed staff achieve more: five goals to optimize capacity and direct inpatient flow
This article was originally published on Becker’s Hospital Review in February 2022. Severe staff shortages, new COVID variants, and unpredictable surges are making it critical for hospitals to optimize inpatient capacity. The short-handed staff who are responsible for capacity decisions must be fully equipped to direct patient flow safely, quickly, and to the best possible use of […]
Centralized surgical scheduling: an innovative model to streamline health systems, address case backlogs
In the wake of COVID-19 surges, many hospital leaders are struggling to work through an extensive backlog of cases with limited operating rooms (ORs) and staff available. Certain staff, such as often-undervalued and underestimated perioperative schedulers, are especially stretched since their work requires aligning the needs of patients, surgeons, and others across multiple locations and resources. […]
Webinar Writeup: Doing more with less – WakeMed’s experience with optimizing operating room capacity
At the Winter 2021 LeanTaaS Transform Hospital Operations Summit, Jon Peterson, Business Manager of Perioperative Services at WakeMed Health, and Ashley Walsh, Vice President, Client Services – iQueue for Operating Rooms and Inpatient Beds, discussed how giving staff and physicians full data transparency enabled them to promote optimal operating room utilization and inpatient capacity. See the full conversation […]
Webinar Writeup: How Fred Hutchinson “Fred Hutch” Cancer Center is transforming infusion center scheduling
The Winter 2021 LeanTaaS Transform Hospital Operations Virtual Summit featured a conversation between Emily McCambridge Kowalski, Patient Access Operations Manager — Infusion, Fred Hutchinson “Fred Hutch” Cancer Center, and Armand Indra, Product Implementation and Customer Success Manager at LeanTaaS, on Fred Hutch Cancer Center’s ongoing success in infusion center scheduling optimization to the benefit of nurses, […]
Webinar Writeup: How Nebraska Medicine grew infusion center volumes while keeping wait times under 10 minutes
At the Winter 2021 LeanTaaS Transform Hospital Operations Summit, Becky Duchman, Director of Infusion and Treatment Services at Nebraska Medicine’s Buffett Cancer Center, presented a session on her center’s success with taking a data-driven approach to managing infusion center capacity, including a new approach to optimize infusion scheduling. Missed the event? We’ve got the […]
iQueue Highlight: Executive Summary tool relieves the reporting burden on infusion managers
In response to a long-time and now urgent customer need, iQueue for Infusion Centers has launched a feature to quickly and compellingly incorporate an infusion center’s deep lake of operational data into a single ongoing digital performance report. The Executive Summary feature is now live and available for all users of iQueue for Infusion Centers. As of January 13th, […]
Webinar Writeup: How UCSF leveraged supply and demand considerations to reduce infusion patient wait times
Recently, Aubrey Wong, Administrative Director of the University of California, San Francisco, and the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, joined LeanTaaS Founder and CEO Mohan Giridharadas to share how the Center piloted iQueue for Infusion Centers and started to reduce infusion patient wait times and increase volumes. Missed the event? We’ve got the details […]
Webinar Writeup: Improving operating room efficiency in University of Cincinnati Health’s OR – Three simple steps
In June 2020, University of Cincinnati Health’s Director of Transformation Tyler French and Perioperative Supervisor of OR Scheduling Julie Kirby joined LeanTaaS Implementation Specialist Alyssa Trocchio to share how the health system managed the cultural changes required to improve operating room efficiency and capacity management and leveraged iQueue for Operating Rooms to reach their desired capacity management […]
Webinar Writeup: How Texas Oncology leveraged machine learning to unlock and increase infusion volume
Recently Tammy Sayers, Chief of Operations at Texas Oncology, explained how applying iQueue for Infusion Centers helped increase infusion volume, including daily patient intake by 20%. Missed this webinar live? View the entire recording here, or read a transcript here. With constant pressure to do more with less, and large time and cost barriers to growing physical […]