 nominate
or manager of year
Each year at the Managing
Today’s OR Suite conference,
a surgical
services manager or director is named OR Manager of
the Year.
> Details
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 Managing
today's OR Suite
Oct 29-31, 2008
Washington, DC
> Brochure
> Hotel
Registration
> Register
Online
The 21st annual Managing Today’s OR Suite Conference,
sponsored for OR Manager, Inc, will be at the Gaylord
National in the Washington, DC, area.
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Register
now for the OR Benchmarks Collaborative User Conference
The OR Benchmarks
Collaborative will host its 3rd
annual user conference Tuesday, Oct
28, prior to the
Managing Today’s OR Suite conference in Washington,
DC, Oct 29-31. > Read More
> Agenda
and registration
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Call
for abstracts for poster displays
Showcase your research, process improvement projects,
and clinical innovations in the poster display at the Managing
Today’s OR Suite conference, Oct 29-31, in
Washington, DC. Please submit poster abstracts to OR
Manager, Inc, by August 15, 2008.
> More information and
forms to submit for your poster.
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Technology
and Patient Safety: How Can They Work Today
Simulation training, robotics, and NOTES (natural
orifice transluminal
endoscopic surgery)-how will they contribute to patient
safety? Here is the
PowerPoint for the keynote speech by Andrew S. Wright,
MD, at the recent OR Business Management Conference in
San Francisco.
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Future
Conference Dates
Managing
Today's OR Suite and OR
Business Management's Future Conference Dates.
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special
offers
Surgeon Satisfaction Survey
> Special
discounts available!
For Foreign Subscribers
Get the electronic version (PDF) on the monthly publication, >OR
Manager, for $129 per year.
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Upcoming
CE Webinars
OR Manager, Inc, and McKesson are offering free educational
webinars. Continuing education credit will be granted
at no cost to you. The webinars are offered at 1:00
pm ET. > More
Dates
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Call
for abstracts
OR
Business Management Conference
May 20-22,
2009
Drake Hotel, Chicago
Managing Today’s
OR Suite Conference
Oct
7 to 9, 2009
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas
Share your successes with your colleagues
at the OR Manager conferences in 2009.
The OR Business Management Conference focuses
on management of finances, materials, technology,
and OR design and construction.
Managing Today’s OR Suite focuses
on practical topics related to management
of surgical services such as efficiency,
IT, staff retention, and cost management.
Deadline for proposals is November
3, 2008. To submit a proposal, use this easy-to-fill
out form.
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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.
- Interspinous Process Decompression: What’s
the State of the Evidence?
> July
2007
- Artificial
Intervertebral Disc Replacement for Lumbar
Degenerative Disc Disease:
What’s
the State of the Evidence? >
September 2007
- Artificial
Intervertebral Disc Replacement for Symptomatic
Cervical Disc Disease:
What’s
the State of the Evidence? >
January 2008
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The
OR benchmarks
 collaborative
A partnership of
OR Manager, Inc, and McKesson Corporation,
the OR Benchmarks Collaborative is a new
benchmarking service that provides
you with an opportunity to measure and
compare your key performance indicators
with health care facilities nationwide. Participate
in a 60-minute interactive demonstration web
seminar.
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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.
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