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Why hospitals should “make their assets sweat”
Hat tip to Sharon O’Keefe, CEO of the University of Chicago Medical Center, for introducing the phrase “make your assets sweat” to our team, which inspired me to write this article.…
This is how the future of hospital operations resembles air traffic control
Explosion of data volumes. Interoperability of systems. Large servers in the sky that can analyze enormous amounts of data, compute complex algorithms in real time, and communicate in microseconds. Mobile…
Health systems need to move beyond resource-based scheduling
Watching the tennis matches at Wimbledon over the last couple of weeks has inspired me to try and play a bit more often in order to improve my erratic, “weekend-warrior”…
LeanTaaS Welcomes Katherine Halverson-Carpenter
LeanTaaS welcomes Katherine Halverson-Carpenter to the team as Vice President, Clinical Operations. Katherine brings more than two decades of experience managing perioperative services at leading healthcare organizations across the nation…
CHIME Survey Reveals CIO Perspective on the Optimal Path to Improved Operations and Increased Revenue
A recent survey of CHIME CIOs reveals a continued disconnect between the availability of EHR data and its ability to influence both revenue and operating margins in hospitals. The survey,…
The Data Proves It: First Case Starts And Turnover Time Are Not Your Best Metrics
As a perioperative business manager for almost a decade, I’ve seen dozens of operating room efficiency improvement projects and benchmarks that focus heavily on first case delays and turnover…
Shaping the demand curve to improve asset utilization is a bit like playing Tetris
In a previous article, I talked about how higher “velocity” contributes to greater efficiencies in a healthcare operations setting. The key to increasing velocity is to focus on minimizing the…
Improving Operational Efficiency in Healthcare
The notion of improving operational efficiency is conspicuously absent from the healthcare debate — neither Obamacare nor the newly proposed GOP plan discusses the impact that a step-function improvement in…
Moving Beyond Dashboards for Healthcare IT
I think we can safely add “travel agent” to the list of anachronisms that have gradually receded from our collective consciousness. Along with pay phones, and at some point in…
3 Simple Ways to Improve Operating Room Utilization
As a perioperative business manager for over a decade, I’ve seen dozens of approaches and projects to improve operating room efficiency. No matter how you calculate your operating room utilization,…
Improving Nurse Satisfaction Requires Root Cause Solutions
A recent RNnetwork survey found half of the nurses they surveyed (49.8 percent) have contemplated switching professions, with 27 percent citing overwork as the reason. In his analysis of this…
Infusion Scheduling is a Game of Tetris You Can Never Win
If you’re of a certain age, you remember Tetris, a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Russian game designer Alexey Pajitnov. Back in 1984 - before “viral”…
Doing the math to reduce wasted time for healthcare delivery
Excellent service processes are fast processes — this is the universal truth of service operations. Just as the water level in the bay hides the rocks from visibility, high levels…
EHRs: What’s Next — An OR Manager’s Perspective
Among today’s biggest trends are EHRs and business intelligence. We’re investing millions of dollars creating “data engines” that track patients throughout the continuum of care. In many ways it’s similar…
