Category Archives: surgeon

of interest to surgeons

Protected: the art of flipping rooms…

Posted on January 17, 2012 by

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FTE, utilization, and cost accounting … when PUNs equal CUEs

Posted on September 8, 2011 by

also see: Graph of CRNA usage for optimized Surgeon Schedule also see: TA(throughput accounting) and TDABC (time driven activity based costing)….the fabric, the ‘warp and woof’ of healthcare — Cost accounting (whether standard costing or TDABC) is based on the concept … Continue reading →

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constraints, risk, and ego in OR start delays… simple example

Posted on February 16, 2011 by

First off, there must be a 100 different reasons for late OR starts.  Everything from surgeons, anesthesiologist, nurses, equipment, meetings, policies, traffic, school age children and equipment…to a mix of any of the above.  The trick is in understanding the … Continue reading →

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Protected: How to Tell the Productive Surgeons from the non-Productive

Posted on January 29, 2010 by

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Protected: the fungible anesthetist…

Posted on January 27, 2010 by

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Graphs of Actual and Optimized Surgical Schedule

Posted on January 20, 2010 by

Warning! Not for the graphically challenged. In reference to the graphs I posted on January 14, 2010, I’ve added several graphs with detailed information. The first graph is of the actual room schedule (non-optimized) before optimizing it by a better … Continue reading →

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Wasting surgeons’ time? One hospital– $27 Million opportunity Loss per Year from scheduling

Posted on January 14, 2010 by

click here:  3 Graphs of Actual and Optimized Surgical Schedule « ORTimes – Healthcare Systems Engineering Analysis The above chart was derived from data from a client who wanted to know if they were using their CRNAs efficiently. (we’ll show that … Continue reading →

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