University of California San Diego (UCSD) Moores Cancer Center accommodates 80,000 annual outpatient visits and has a mission to provide quality comprehensive cancer care. Despite an already-large capacity and facility expansion, the cancer center grappled with very high no-show rates for patients that led to much of that capacity going unused. Bottlenecked scheduling and long wait times led to frustration for both patients and staff. Compounding these problems was an EHR that only allowed for scheduling patients by standardized slots, rather than by acuity or appointment duration.
To promote more efficient schedules and continue to optimize the capacity UCSD already invested in, Moores Cancer Center needed a solution to leverage historic appointment data to generate predictive, level-loaded scheduling templates based on expected treatment lengths, nurse staffing, and expanded capacity made available by likely cancellations. The solution also had to account for acuity and appointment length.
By implementing LeanTaaS’ AI-powered iQueue for Infusion Centers solution, the cancer center was able to deliver these capabilities to its infusion leaders and staff. Using iQueue, Moores Cancer Center not only level loaded daily appointment schedules, but strategically adjusted its approach to staffing and nurse assignments. In this session, the Ambulatory Patient Care Manager at Moores Cancer Center discusses how the organization leveraged the iQueue network, data and custom analytics to drive internal change management and significantly move the needle on operational performance.
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