All 2025 sessions from the conference program.

“What’s our cost per case?”

“Can Dr. Smith’s office take our open time this week?”

“Can you update all our preference cards today?”

If you’re having trouble answering these questions, don’t miss this webinar. Using digital preference cards and OR scheduling tools, you’ll see how more accessible data can empower your team.

In this session, surgical business managers will discover strategies for reducing costs per case, optimizing labor utilization, and keeping ORs from idling. Nurses will discover time-saving strategies for preference card management and room turnover.

With real-world insights from the OR, viewers will leave with actionable solutions to streamline processes and drive measurable improvements in their surgical department.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the key characteristics of effective preference cards and their role in optimizing OR efficiency.
• Discuss the most effective ways to digitize OR case scheduling.
• Highlight the importance of collaboration among SPD, the OR team, and the supply chain in driving long-term success for preference card initiatives.

This dynamic discussion will challenge traditional approaches, highlight transformative advancements, and deliver actionable insights for navigating the evolving perioperative landscape.

Key Topics:

• Critical reflections on 2024: Insights into successes, setbacks, and operational changes that shaped 2024.
• Emerging trends: Predictions on clinical advancements and technological innovations, market shifts and workforce dynamics poised to impact perioperative operations in the coming years.
• Actionable insights: Strategic discussion on expectations for 2025 and approaches to improving patient outcomes while strengthening financial performance.

A High-Reliability Organization (HRO) is an organization that experiences fewer accidents or events of harm than otherwise anticipated, despite operating in a complicated and risky environment. Many healthcare organizations aspire to become HROs.

Periop teams play an essential role in advocating and implementing the HRO agenda. Applying HRO principles to daily functions in the operating room is a way to safeguard patient safety, even during moments of considerable change or disruption in the surgical suite.

This session offers a blueprint for periop staff desiring to integrate high reliability principles into their workflows. Our clinical nursing experts will review each of the five foundational principles of HROs. They’ll provide strategies and examples as to how each principle can be applied within the OR to impact care in a positive way.

Learning Objectives:

• List the five principles of High-Reliability Organizations (HROs).
• Discuss three ways HROs should be preoccupied with failure.
• Summarize how deference to expertise can impact a time-out.

Are you building an ASC, partnering with Administration to equip an outpatient facility or interested in learning about principles that will help your support your hospital’s new OR project? Please join us as we learn from one of the top Med Device Planning, Design and Construction Teams in partnership with a veteran CEO who has done all of the above. We will share key insights that will allow you to make informed decisions, provide key considerations, and ease the planning process as you support the development of new surgical spaces.

Learning Objectives: 

• Key Principles to consider when designing an operating room
• How to equip your facility for future expansion
• Understanding how partnering with a company that offers multiple products throughout the continuum of care can benefit your ASC

Now more than ever, it’s crucial for health systems to maximize utilization of their highest-value assets. Shrinking margins and staff scarcity have changed the way hospitals and ASCs look at their Operating Room block allocation. Wasted block time can threaten the financial viability of a department, and turning around an inefficient OR requires a purposeful, data-driven approach.

Leaders at Northwest Specialty Hospital identified the need for a Block Optimization solution, but their first partnership ended with disappointment and frustration. Rather than give up on the idea, they decided to try a new approach and were able to achieve their goals through meaningful collaboration.

In this webinar, we’ll speak to JJ Turbin, Executive Director of Finance, about what he learned from the experience and how he persevered to find a solution that fit Northwest’s needs.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the most impactful effects of predicting and tracking surgical block utilization
• Discuss the value of collaboration when adopting a block optimization solution
• Build an evaluation framework to measure success when implementing a new block management process

Learning objectives:

• Understand why six metrics had an outsized impact on OR capacity
• Identify practical analytic methods to track these six key indicators
• Summarize how a comprehensive OR scheduling policy and governance structure can address the six key metrics at an institutional and individual level

In this encore presentation of LiveData’s seminar at the OR Manager Conference, LiveData Clinical Support Specialist Jeffrey Oliver, Lt. Col, Ret., CCNS, CNOR, will explain how a medical center in the southeastern US increased their OR throughput after widespread pandemic slowdowns.

By deploying analytics-driven insights, the hospital found where workflow updates would most impact OR capacity. While the medical center was able to increase capacity to schedule more patients and eliminate wait times, this led to a new challenge: with over a dozen hospitals and ASCs nearby, local practices held out for visible scheduling improvements before filling the hospital’s newly-created capacity.

This condensed session will explain in detail how focusing on six metrics was the most effective way for the hospital to attract new cases, resulting in a 6% growth in case volume.

All 2024 sessions from the conference program.

• Pre-Conference Workshop 1: OR Business Management Training Bootcamp
• Pre-Conference Workshop 2:Planning OR Renovations and New Build - Are You Prepared? 
• Opening Keynote: The Future is Now - Novel Solutions to Advance Health Equity and Improve Patient Outcomes 
• Optimizing the OR - Costs Savings and Waste Reduction 
• Outpatient Surgery Trends - What’s on the Horizon? 
• Decreasing Documentation Burden by 75% in 5 Years: The 25x5 Initiative 
• Strategy to Reduce Temporary Labor Expense 
• Business Operations and Clinical Operations - Working Together to Achieve a Common Goal 
• Legal Implications of AI in Healthcare 
• Unlocking Your OR’s Potential - Data-Driven Strategies for Maximizing Efficiency and Easing Staffing Challenges, Sponsored by: LeanTaaS 
• A Decade of Decisions: New Products and Lessons Learned 
• Rewarding Value Not Volume 
• General Session: Fast-Forward - ECRI’s Top 10 Health Technology Hazards 
• Welcome to the Inflection Point of OR Planning and Performance, Sponsored by: Fujitsu
• Computers in the OR: Unlocking the Power of Robotics and the Future of Telesurgery 
• Centralizing SPD to Serve Multiple Facilities 
• Tools for a Brighter Future - Collaboration Between Sterile Processing and the OR
• Data Driven Approach to Workforce Solutions 
• Surgery. Simplified: Using AI to Revolutionize the OR, Sponsored by: Pegasys Medical 
• Integrating Checkpoints to Ensure Patient Well-Being 
• Connecting the Dots between the Perioperative Executive Committee and Hospital Operations 
• Creative ASC Staffing with Non-Traditional Models 
• Healthcare Policies – What Regulatory Changes are Coming? 
• Truth in Scheduling - Redefining Operating Room Efficiency, Sponsored by: LiveData
• General Session: Imminent Supply Chain Disruptors – What’s Your Business Continuity Plan? 
• Closing Keynote: Staffing Models Built for the Future – Improving Efficiencies and Profitability of the Surgical Suite  

Part 3 – Construction and Activation Phase – The final session will explain your role during the construction phase and identify the required final activities prior to performing your first procedure. As a wrap up, details on the capital planning process will be shared along with best practices from the pre-design to construction phase linking in the AORN guidelines for design and maintenance of the surgical suite.

Learning objectives:

    -Recognize who should be part of your project team to give input on the design.
    -Understand the various phases of the design and construction process, your role in each, and how to maximize your opportunity for success.
    -Gain an understanding of the capital planning process and how the AORN guidelines for design and maintenance of the surgical suite should be linked into this process

Part 2 of OR Manager’s Construction-Renovation webinar series as we delve into the finer details of design plans to optimize efficiencies while engaging front line staff.

The detailed design development phase of operating room projects marks a pivotal stage where attention shifts to the precise placement of essential items, from medical equipment to furniture to information technology components and supplies. This webinar will explore the intricacies of orchestrating detailed design development in OR projects, emphasizing the importance of optimizing item placement to enhance workflow efficiency and patient care. Additionally, participants will discover how this phase presents an opportunity for frontline staff to actively engage in process improvement initiatives, identifying pain points and workarounds to streamline operations and elevate the quality of patient care.

Learning objectives:

• Understand the significance of detailed design development.
• Discuss optimal equipment placement and workflow efficiency.
• Empower frontline staff and engage them in the design process.