From Operating Rooms to Procedural Rooms:How WakeMed Created 10%+ More Capacity Without New Construction
Hospitals today are facing growing pressure to meet rising procedural demand while managing through anesthesia staffing shortages, space limitations, and constrained budgets. At WakeMed Health & Hospitals in North Carolina—home to one of the nation’s busiest emergency departments—leadership had to find a way to create capacity without relying on bricks and mortar. But inconsistent on-time […]
Real Questions from Healthcare Leaders, Answered: A Conversation with Mohan Giridharadas and Molly Gamble
In this exclusive interview from Transform Hospital Operations Virtual Summit (June 10–11, 2025), Molly Gamble, Vice President of Editorial at Becker’s Healthcare, sits down with LeanTaaS Founder and CEO Mohan Giridharadas. The conversation is fueled by real, unfiltered questions submitted by health system leaders from across the country — covering pressing challenges like nurse burnout, […]
Inside the Future of Hospital Operations: Mohan Giridharadas Talks with Molly Gamble
In this thought-provoking Q&A, Mohan Giridharadas, CEO and Founder of LeanTaaS, joins Molly Gamble of Becker’s Healthcare to explore how health systems can harness operational excellence and data-driven decision-making to overcome persistent capacity challenges. Mohan outlines how hospitals and infusion centers face rising patient demand, workforce shortages, and financial constraints—and how leveraging predictive analytics and […]
The Formula for Operational Excellence: Elevating Infusion Operations with Workforce Intelligence
Infusion centers are at the frontlines of modern cancer care—yet most operate under outdated scheduling models that cannot withstand the unpredictability of daily patient volumes, pharmacy delays, and workforce variability. The result is all too familiar: long wait times, frustrated staff, and patients in limbo. As demand grows and staffing remains constrained, simply working harder […]
Staffing Synergy: UCSF Health’s Journey in AI-Driven Infusion Workforce Management
The healthcare industry is exploring AI-driven solutions to meet the ongoing challenge of staffing. In this session, Marisa Quinn, Director of Nursing for Infusion Services at UCSF Health, shares her firsthand experience implementing LeanTaaS’ iQueue Patient Assignment feature across multiple infusion sites. Marisa will discuss how her team adopted and tailored AI tools to improve […]
Intelligent Operations in Action: Optimizing Patient Flow to Unlock Patient Access and Streamline the ED
Inpatient operations are complex, requiring hospitals to balance patient needs, clinical resources, and capacity constraints in real time. LeanTaaS Founder and CEO Mohan Giridharadas will open the session with a high-level look at how health systems are transforming operations by combining AI, predictive analytics, and real-time data into a new model of intelligent hospital management. […]
The Formula for Operational Excellence: Optimizing Patient Flow to Unlock the ED
Emergency department (ED) boarding continues to strain hospitals nationwide, resulting in delayed care, staff burnout, and poor outcomes. But ED congestion is not an isolated issue—it’s often a downstream symptom of broader operational misalignment across inpatient settings. Unlocking sustainable improvements requires a shift upstream.In this session, Jason Harber, Senior Vice President of Client Services for […]
Overcoming Coverage and Operational Challenges in Anesthesia
Modern anesthesia departments face increasingly complex challenges in managing coverage across traditional operating rooms and non-operating room anesthesia (NORA) locations. This roundtable discussion brings together leading experts to explore innovative approaches to these operational challenges through the lens of advanced analytics and technology solutions. In this session, Dr. Attila Kett, Chairman of Anesthesiology at Northwell […]
Maximizing Released OR Time: How Inova Achieved a 46% Release Fill Rate to Drive ROI and Efficiency
Every OR has open time—the real question is, what are you doing with it? For Inova Health System, the answer was millions in potential revenue and dozens of unbooked hours, hiding in plain sight. But instead of accepting lost capacity as the cost of complexity, they took a different path, one built on real-time data, […]
Streamlining Surgical Coordination in Real-Time: How Cone Health Maximized Daily Patient Care
Cone Health, a leading not-for-profit health system in North Carolina, manages over 50,000 surgical cases annually across 73 operating and procedural rooms. Despite this scale, Cone Health faced persistent challenges with inefficient communication methods, limited schedule visibility, and fragmented workflows, which led to delays, cancellations, and underutilization of staff resources. In this session, Dr. Matthew […]