Successful capacity management is a significant challenge for OR leaders because OR supply is fixed while demand is highly unpredictable. Additionally, optimizing capacity based on block utilization has not been effective because of a lack of usable data, visibility, and transparency. A more effective approach to optimizing capacity is leveraging…

One of the biggest challenges OR managers and VPs of surgery face is efficient use of OR time. They struggle to balance revenue and utilization targets with surgeon and staff preferences against a backdrop of often unpredictable supply and demand. The way in which blocks of OR time are allocated,…

Clinical care and patient outcomes relies on the availability of clinical supplies. COVID-19 caused shutdowns and reduced capacity resulting in supply shortages that eventually spread to the entire clinical supply chain. The persistent effects of the pandemic have made the current healthcare landscape even more uncertain, complex, and challenging. As…

Clinical care and patient outcomes relies on the availability of clinical supplies. COVID-19 caused shutdowns and reduced capacity resulting in supply shortages that eventually spread to the entire clinical supply chain. The persistent effects of the pandemic have made the current healthcare landscape even more uncertain, complex, and challenging. As…

Clinical care and patient outcomes relies on the availability of clinical supplies. COVID-19 caused shutdowns and reduced capacity resulting in supply shortages that eventually spread to the entire clinical supply chain. The persistent effects of the pandemic have made the current healthcare landscape even more uncertain, complex, and challenging. As…

Clinical care and patient outcomes relies on the availability of clinical supplies. COVID-19 caused shutdowns and reduced capacity resulting in supply shortages that eventually spread to the entire clinical supply chain. The persistent effects of the pandemic have made the current healthcare landscape even more uncertain, complex, and challenging. As…

Perioperative leaders share one primary goal: utilize operating rooms to the fullest potential. Achieving this requires a delicate balance of complex variables such as OR block allocation, surgeon schedules and preferences, hospital policies, and staff schedules, but perioperative leaders typically lack consistent, reliable, and up-to-date information to identify opportunities to…

The operating suite is a key revenue driver for hospitals, making prime-time OR minutes a critical resource that needs to be carefully managed. But effectively scheduling and managing this complex department is a tremendous challenge. Perioperative leaders are continuously striving to improve utilization, grow surgical volume, keep surgeons satisfied, and properly align resources to…

The operating room is one of the most lucrative areas within the hospital. Adding as little as one case each day or improving room utilization by 1% can significantly impact your hospital's bottom line. Perioperative leaders are always looking for ways to improve performance and maximize primetime OR and resource…

Abstract/Learning Objectives: As perioperative departments around the country are resuming elective surgeries, perioperative leadership, surgeons, and nursing leadership are working to together to plan for and accommodate the large backlog of elective cases that were canceled as a result of COVID-19. In this eBook, Hospital IQ shares 7 guiding tenets…