Unlocking Surgical Volume: Strategies for Improving OR Capacity through Data-Driven Decisions
Knowing how and where to allocate block time is a notoriously challenging problem to solve for perioperative leaders. Time in the operating room (OR) is a finite resource, and nearly every surgeon leader has a need for additional block time. Even when surgical service lines or surgeons receive requested block time, underutilization is common while […]
Resilience in Action: Infusion Centers as Catalysts for Innovation featuring Duke Health
In the session “Resilience in Action: Infusion Centers as Catalysts for Innovation featuring Duke Health,” attendees will explore how infusion centers, following the challenges of the pandemic, can leverage resilience to address fundamental operational issues. The session emphasizes the necessity of confronting difficult problems, such as optimizing lab processes and decoupling clinic and infusion appointments. […]
Make AI Work for the Workforce: Empowering Staff and Systems to Thrive
AI-powered technology is a critical tool in a health system’s toolbox to help close the staffing gap. One-third of the nursing workforce is expected to retire within the next 10-15 years, and this long-term challenge cannot be solved with recruitment and training alone. By utilizing AI to optimize staff scheduling, smooth workloads, and eliminate administrative […]
From Conflict to Collaboration: A Deep Dive into Data-Driven Decision-Making
Maximizing surgeon and staff productivity and efficient use of operating room time (and minimizing conflict) that arises around surgeon accessibility and efficient use of operating room time is an achievable goal when all stakeholders have the capability to easily access transparent and actionable data. Adopting technology with predictive and prescriptive data analytics drives meaningful conversations, […]
Optimizing OR Flow: How Data-Driven Insights Help Anesthesia Groups and Hospitals Work Smarter, Together
Join UCHealth’s Associate Chief Medical Officer Perioperative Services to gain insight on how data-driven insights optimized operating room scheduling and drive efficiency gains. By leveraging both technology and standardizing workflows, the UCHealth team continues to enhance coordination and efficiency between anesthesia groups and hospitals with impressive results. Three Learning objectives:
Optimizing the Surgical Workflow: Strategies for Improved Patient Access and Surgeon Satisfaction
In today’s fast-paced healthcare environment, perioperative leaders face numerous challenges, including increased patient volumes, complex scheduling, and limited resources. To overcome these obstacles and provide exceptional patient care, it is crucial to quickly identify opportunities in order to streamline the surgical workflow. The challenges of maximizing patient access, ensuring surgeon satisfaction, and achieving resource utilization […]
From Experiment to Scaled Deployment: How Health Systems Can Leverage Tech and AI to Increase Capacity and Utilization
Health system leaders face increasing demands to improve capacity and efficiency despite resource constraints. This panel will explore how advanced technologies can improve resource utilization and overall hospital operations, along with lessons learned and strategies behind the challenge of implementing new technology system-wide.
Transforming Perioperative Performance: Uniting AI, Automation, and Change Management
AI is not a trend; it’s a strategic enabler for transformation. To truly reimagine the hospital for the 21st century, health systems must marry AI with automated workflows, normalized data, and change management expertise to navigate through disruption towards results. Long term success also depends upon building a culture that supports ambitious innovation through a […]
Navigating Infusion Center Operations: Challenges, Solutions, and Future Horizons
Unlocking AI in Infusion Centers: Tackling Tech, Regulation, and Value
Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to transform healthcare by unlocking insights from data that can improve efficiency, lower costs, and enhance patient outcomes. As AI techniques such as machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision advance, they have the potential to revolutionize clinical care and hospital operations. Leading healthcare organizations are already leveraging AI to […]