Operating rooms are the economic engine for most health systems, so their optimization is critical to the financial health of the whole organization. However, OR utilization is often constrained by inefficient processes (e.g. block allocation, finding open time), deep-rooted cultures and “scarcity mindsets”, and emphasis on metrics that do not have a significant impact on OR utilization. ORs with these challenges need tools to increase access, accountability, and transparency, which go beyond the standard capabilities EHRs can provide.
It is frustrating for hospital leaders to base very expensive decisions, such as whether to build a new OR or purchase an additional robot, on anecdotal or inaccurate information. It is also stressful to have difficult conversations with surgeons about block utilization, particularly when the surgeons may take their cases elsewhere. These issues continue to persist, despite best efforts around performance improvement. How can hospitals move past these constraints and efficiently make better decisions?
In this session, join Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville’s President and Baptist Health Jacksonville’s Principal Consultant, Operational Performance Improvement to hear about their journey toward perioperative operational excellence. Learn how the health system is breaking through these historical barriers with the advanced predictive and prescriptive analytics tools offered by LeanTaaS’ iQueue for Operating Rooms solution. These improved data transparency and decision making, helping OR stakeholders fill valuable time during the day that had previously gone unused, particularly during the unpredictable waves of the pandemic.
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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.