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Tag Archives: operating room productivity
OR Policy Comparative Results and PreOP Congestion
See also: “SHS2013 Resolving Resistance to OR Scheduling” “SHS2013 Clarifying OR Turnover Time Concept Graph” “SHS2013 Clarifying OR On Time Starts” Many PreOp holding areas have a large variance in their usage. To keep PreOp from being a constraint (bottleneck) for surgery (surgeons … Continue reading →
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constraint theory and pareto optimals linkedin…
Constraint theory and Pareto optimals… We’ve been using Constraint theory (TOC) as a way to derive Pareto optimal solutions in the OR for a couple of years now, and briefly mentioned the approach at a recent Academy of Business Research … Continue reading →
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flipping rooms…get started
If you’re in charge of the OR, whether nursing or an anesthesia or surgical group, and want to decrease turnover time, risks, and costs while increasing revenue — you could greatly benefit from flipping rooms. With internet connectivity in your … Continue reading →
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a little data goes a long ways…
Although the expression –‘it’s not what you have, but how you use it’– is not entirely true, knowing how to massage whatever data you have can be very productive. The data needed for this display is easily available from the … Continue reading →
Foldit….human pattern recognition trumps algorithms…
One of my tenets is that creating tools that help people recognize patterns can create better results than creating an algorithm than cannot take into account all the parameters of a situation. Just like the saying “One picture is worth … Continue reading →
not your father’s OR scheduler…
Want to know who’s doing what, when: With what? What’s starting when? Who’s got to be there? How many whos? Can you let a few people off early? Can you start a few people late? How many people need to … Continue reading →
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labor analysis of CRNA from collectible time data…
6:00 Labor Analysis 482 230 280 0.5809 150 102 14:02 The above shows information about the work of a CRNA during the day. The CRNA clocked in at 6:00 am and out at 14:02 for total Time-on-the-Clock wage minutes of … Continue reading →
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constraints, risk, and ego in OR start delays… simple example
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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Wasting surgeons’ time? One hospital– $27 Million opportunity Loss per Year from scheduling
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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