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OR Business Management Conference

Gain a better understanding of how you can manage costs in the surgical suite. The OR Business Management Conference, May 12-14, at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco, focuses on the financial success of the OR. Here you will get solid, relevant information that you can use to make a difference in your OR. The target audience includes OR directors, business managers, and others concerned with the financial success of the OR.

Good news. With growing interest in patient and family centered facility design, the OR Design and Construction track is back.

Join us in San Francisco for this dynamic conference.

Download the brochure and register online.

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Start the New Year right with or manager webinars

Introducing the new Management Development Program, a series of 12 webinars to help new and aspiring managers move successfully in to surgical services management.

For information about all our webinars and registration, click here.

Participate in new webinars from popular programs at the Managing Today’s OR Suite conference in Las Vegas:

• Feb 11, Managing The Use of Human Tissue
• Feb 18, New Managers: The Power and Pitfalls of Delegation: New Managers
• Feb 25, Surgery Scheduling: Critical Element for Efficient Patient Flow

• More information and to register.
• Additional Listener form

Scheduled Times
Unless otherwise noted, all webinars are on Thursdays at 2:00 pm eastern time (1:00 pm central, 12 noon mountain, and 11:00 am Pacific).

Learn how the OR Benchmarks Collaborative can help you reach your OR’s goals for 2010

In this one-hour webinar, you will hear how this subscription-based benchmarking service provides actionable insights and the support you need to set and to meet OR performance goals. Benchmark your OR’s performance each month to see your progress and learn from comparing your performance with national benchmarks. You can use the web-based dashboard with any IS platform that you have installed in your OR.

For more information and to register, click here

Catch the programs you missed at Managing Today’s OR Suite

Were you unable to attend Managing Today’s OR Suite? Or maybe you were there but heard about a hot program you missed. It is not too late. You can get an audio recording with the PowerPoint of all the sessions or individual sessions from Prolibraries.

Some of the general programs you might want to catch:
• Pilot Steve Harden’s keynote on creating a culture of safety using lessons from aviation.
• Brian Lee’s advice on thriving in a world of multiple priorities.
• Karyn Buxman’s entertaining presentation on seeing humor even in the most difficult of circumstances.

The top breakouts included:
• Collaborative Leadership Across Multiple Departments
• Complying with New Joint Commission Standards
• No Retained Objects: An Ongoing Challenge

To order session recordings go to http://www.prolibraries.com/ormanager/

Surgical teams serve in Haiti.

Read their stories.

On Valentine’s Day, Fall in Love with These New Management Modules.

During February, we are offering the new modules, Patient Safety in the OR, Third Edition, and Improving OR Performance, at special prices that make them great gifts for the staff.

The OR Manager Movie

View our new movie that shows how OR Manager can help you manage your OR. It takes only a few minutes, and you’ll enjoy it.

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Subscribe now and receive a free copy of Improving OR Performance, a compilation of articles from OR Manager. > Click here

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Introducing the new, enhanced electronic OR Manager.

The new, enhanced electronic version of OR Manager is now available to Super Subscribers. Starting with the January issue, Super Subscribers will have access to the electronic issue each month on the OR Manager website. Click here to see a demonstration of the new electronic version.

You can share this issue with a friend; look for the icon on the tool bar. For help, click here.

If you are a print only subscriber, you can upgrade to a Super Subscriber subscription by calling 800-442-9918.

OR Business Management LISTSERV

At the recent OR Business Management conference, business managers and OR directors asked for a way to network on OR business issues and questions. In response, we have set up an interactive networking community, the OR Business Management LISTSERV. This email communication tool will allow you send and receive public messages. You can get information from other members and share your knowledge. Each LISTSERV participant receives sent messages and can reply publicly or individually to the message.
> To subscribe, click here.

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For Foreign Subscribers
Get the electronic version (PDF) on the monthly publication, OR Manager, for $149 per year.

Summaries of ECRI Institute Technology Assessment Reports

OR leaders are striving to make evidence-based decisions about new technology. OR Manager, Inc, and ECRI Institute have joined in a collaboration to bring quarterly supplements with summaries of the Institute’s technology assessment reports to OR Manager readers. The complete reports can be purchased from ECRI Institute’s Health Technology Assessment Information Service at htais@ECRI.org.

We provide timely information for directors and managers of surgical suites in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers through the monthly OR Manager publication, the Managing Today's OR Suite and OR Business Management conferences, and other publications.