Reimagining Your Command Center Strategy: Uniting AI, Automation, and Change Management to Drive $10k Per Bed Annually in Increased Margins
Providing optimal access to care requires health systems to maximize the utilization of their resources across every hospital in their network. Unfortunately, fragmented and siloed operations exist across patient placement centers, staffing offices, and the individual hospitals within the network. This leaves both system and local executives dealing with conflicting operational improvement strategies, disconnected system-level […]
From Chaos to Clarity: How UCHealth Utilizes AI and Workflow Automation to Streamline Inpatient Flow to Decrease Opportunity Days by 8%
The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare is rapidly transforming patient care and enabling hospitals to make more informed operational decisions. In this webinar, leaders from the major academic health system UCHealth explore how hospitals can leverage the data from electronic medical records (EMRs) and other IT systems to achieve operational digital transformation. By […]
Using AI to Innovate Hospital Operations and Support the Healthcare Workforce
The use of AI and machine learning technologies is rapidly increasing in healthcare, with many leaders recognizing their potential as a key element in their innovation and growth strategies. Through the use of AI, innovation and digital strategy leaders are optimizing healthcare operations by reducing manual processes and digitizing workflows, thereby enabling their organizations to […]
Beyond Length of Stay: How Hospitals Are Transforming Capacity Management Strategies
Every day, inpatient leaders are challenged with a number of systemic issues related to patient flow. These cause long wait times for patients, unbalanced staffing across units, and inefficient throughput overall. When trying to alleviate these problems and practice better capacity management, health system strategies too often solely focus on minimizing length of stay. In […]
Unlocking Your ORs’ Potential: Lexington Medical Center Deploys Data-Driven Strategies for Maximizing Efficiency, Easing Staff Challenges, and Achieving a 6% Increase in Block Utilization
Hospitals and health systems today face unprecedented challenges, such as staffing shortages and increasing demand for treatment, with fewer resources available. Perioperative leaders are struggling to balance available resources like staffing and equipment with the demand for additional operating room time. Furthermore, low block utilization, lack of visibility into open OR time, and mistrust in […]
Transforming Surgical Services: Ochsner Health’s Strategies for Enhancing Surgeon Engagement and Optimizing Block Time & Robotic Efficiency to Drive 10% Increase in Robot Utilization
Ochsner Health is a non-profit, academic, multi-specialty healthcare system based in New Orleans. Their 767-bed flagship hospital houses centers of excellence in cancer, transplant, and cardiovascular care and holds Magnet recognition. Like many other health systems, Ochsner Health faced challenges optimizing use of the interconnected resources in the OR, including block time and robot-assisted surgery […]
Transforming Perioperative Performance: CommonSpirit Health Unites AI, Automation, and Change Management to Deliver a $40M ROI
The OR is a significantly powerful economic engine in the hospital. A single minute of OR time can be worth over $100, and a minute of block time up to $50,000. Maximizing OR efficiency and optimization are therefore vital to maintain the financial stability of healthcare systems. Unfortunately, efforts to resolve complex operational challenges often […]
Infusion Capacity Management: How Johns Hopkins Medicine Decreased Drug Wait Time by 13%-32% Year-Over-Year, and University of Kansas Cancer Center Increased Average Daily Volumes by 19%
Why do health systems struggle to efficiently utilize assets? The fundamental problem is one of matching a volatile, unpredictable demand for services with the constrained availability of supply. Backward-facing tools such as dashboards are not adequately equipped to address this supply-demand issue. Infusion centers face these supply-demand challenges on a daily basis. Building out a […]
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 […]