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Automated Workflows for Enhanced Efficiency and Improved Access in the ORs

Speakers

Adam Becker Northwell
Adam Becker, MPA
Assistant Vice President, Financial Operations, Northwell Health
Colby Wilson Northwell
Colby Wilson, MBA
Director, Financial Operations, Perioperative Services, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Northwell Health
Ott Ryan Northwell
Ryan Ott, MPA
Senior Manager, Financial Operations, Interventional Radiology & Perioperative Services at North Shore University Hospital, Northwell Health

Summary

By using workflow automation, hospitals and health systems are finding new and innovative strategies for optimizing capacity, enhancing surgical volume and increasing access to more time for providers. Discover how Northwell Health has been able to integrate automation into surgical scheduling and block management practices across their North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Centers.

Northwell addresses surgical scheduling challenges and how they’ve effectively managed manual processes such as the back-and-forth phone calls, faxes, and emails faced by scheduling teams. With actionable data at their fingertips, and use of innovative block management solutions, hospitals like Northwell can enhance strategic decision making resulting in optimized OR capacity and proven ROI.

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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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