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 and nurses.
The center grappled with unbalanced and inefficient infusion scheduling, uneven chair utilization that led to untapped capacity they could not easily access, and a pressing need for more physical space to accommodate patient demand. If they could not find operational solutions to unlock further capacity in the infusion space they already had, then St. Mary’s Medical Center would need to request a $4-5 million dollar expansion of the space.
Join three infusion leaders from St. Mary’s Medical Center as they discuss finding and deploying a technology solution to help meet their operational goals, which could be implemented in a matter of weeks without placing a drain on existing IT resources. When they adopted LeanTaaS’ AI-powered iQueue for Infusion Centers technology, the center worked closely with the LeanTaaS team to rapidly implement the solution and bring it to full functionality. In doing so St. Mary’s Medical Center swiftly addressed their scheduling and capacity pain points, yielding results in just seven weeks and delaying the clinic’s costly planned physical expansion.
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Take the first step towards unlocking capacity, generating ROI, and increasing patient access.
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.
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.