Effective Surgery Block Management: Utilizing Data-Driven Insights
One of the most significant challenges perioperative leaders face is efficient use of operating room time. Block management is a largely manual and time-consuming process based on retrospective data and fails to identify opportunities to improve OR utilization. Despite best efforts, assigning block time to physicians or service lines rarely translates into predictable scheduling patterns. […]
How One Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Facility Helped Make Timely and Confident Strategic Decisions to Improve OR Block Utilization by 30%
For most healthcare systems, optimized operating room utilization has a significant positive impact on revenue. The key to achieving full OR utilization is access to accurate, timely, and transparent data across the system. In the midst of a competitive market that made strong utilization essential, Baylor Scott & White Health Medical Center of McKinney struggled […]
Critical Components of OR Performance: How The University of Kansas Health System Built Stakeholder Engagement with Credible Data to Increase Block Utilization by 11%
Hospital and perioperative leaders often find it frustrating to have difficult conversations with surgeons about block allocation and utilization, particularly when the data is not defensible and when surgeons can take their cases to other organizations. It is also challenging for leaders to decide how much time and flexibility they can afford to give new […]
Doing More with Less: WakeMed’s Experience in Optimizing OR Capacity For An 11.5% Volume Increase in Three Years
Managing OR capacity effectively is especially important in times of crisis, when maintaining inpatient bed capacity downstream is critical. The ability to adjust OR scheduling optimally, to accommodate case volumes and ensure the right capacity remains open, depends on actionable data that is immediately accessible to all stakeholders. A Raleigh-based community hospital system and Level […]
How St. Mary’s Medical Center Rebalanced Infusion Scheduling and Increased Nurse Productivity with iQueue in 7 Weeks
St. Mary’s Medical Center has delivered comprehensive care to patients in western Colorado and eastern Utah for over a century, and St. Mary’s Cancer Center maintains an especially high standard of care. Infusion scheduling and capacity challenges, however, were consistently disrupting the quality experience that St. Mary Medical Center strove to provide to both patients […]
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University of Utah Health Collaboration and Innovation to Maximize Operating Room Utilization, for a 10% Increase in Prime Time Utilization After Four Months
Academic medical centers, particularly in urban environments, can struggle to balance the demand for operating room time between their main medical center and satellite locations. The University of Utah Health (UoU Health), a regional academic health care system comprising five hospitals and 11 neighborhood health centers, had to accommodate a quickly growing population in metro […]
KLAS Research Insight: LeanTaaS Scores 96.5/100 as a Strong Healthcare Technology Partner
As hospitals and health systems are seeking to adopt AI and machine learning technologies in order to improve their delivery of value based care, they are increasingly exploring innovative yet proven ways of leveraging these technologies to improve operational, and not just clinical, performance. Operational improvement enables optimal use of resources, empowers staff efficiency, increases […]
Unlocking Value in the OR: How Cone Health Harnessed Prescriptive Analytics to Create and Maximize Open OR Time, for Record 78% Staffed Room Utilization
Operating rooms across the country face the challenge of heavily blocked surgery schedules. These stifle growth prospects for surgeons who do not have block time and limit flexibility for perioperative leaders to run efficient ORs. Open, unassigned OR time not only offers more opportunity for additional surgeons to access the OR, but also gives OR […]
KLAS Research Insight: Characteristics of an Infusion Center Technology Partner with a 92.5 Satisfaction Score
Resource constraints, variable patient demand, and an ongoing workforce shortage make it difficult for infusion centers to effectively manage their operations. This can lead to unpredictable workloads and appointment schedules, in which chairs and nurses may be both under- and overutilized each day. Infusion center leaders must adopt effective technology solutions to help optimize scheduling […]