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AI-Powered Solutions for Improving OR Efficiency & Optimizing Block Management

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Chris Hunt-Multicare
Chris Hunt, MBA, MSHA, BSN, RN, CSSM, NEA-BC
Associate Vice President, Perioperative Services MultiCare Health System

Summary

Perioperative leaders often grapple with the challenge of optimizing operating room (OR) time. The prevalent mindset among surgeons—that their designated block time is the sole method for accessing the OR—compounds this issue. Traditional block management processes tend to be manual, time-consuming, and retrospective, further hindering efficiency.

Join us to learn how health systems like MultiCare are using AI to effectively match supply to demand, resulting in improved block management processes, increased access to time and systemwide standardization. Discover how a proactive, data-driven approach can transform block allocation and enhance strategic operational decision-making. 

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Chapter 1: The Looming Challenge

If you work in the healthcare industry, or even if you’re just an interested observer, you don’t need a book to tell you that the financial pressure is on as never before. A perfect storm of circumstances is swirling together, one that will make survivability, not to mention profitability, a greater challenge for healthcare companies than we’ve seen in the modern era.

As with banks, retailers, and airlines, which had to rapidly enhance their brick-and-mortar footprints with robust online business models—it is the early movers eager to gain new efficiencies that will thrive and gain market share. The slow-to-move and the inefficient will end up being consolidated into larger health systems seeking to expand their geographical footprints.

The pressures on healthcare

Let’s look at just a few of the looming challenges healthcare must meet head-on.

An aging population

By the year 2030, the number of adults sixty-five years of age or older will exceed the number of children eighteen years or younger in the United States. We are living longer than our parents did. Positive news for sure, but problematic for several reasons.

The older we get, the more medical help we need. Older people have more chronic diseases. By 2025, nearly 50 percent of the population will suffer from one or more chronic diseases that will require ongoing medical intervention. This combination of an aging population and an increase in chronic diseases will create a ballooning demand for healthcare services.

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