In this webinar, an expert panel will discuss the data needs of highly functional surgical services departments and the current shortcomings of electronic medical records (EMRs) in addressing those needs. You will learn how advanced analytics address EMR limitations and the benefits they provide for OR directors and their teams. Panelists will also suggest practices to get the most out of your data and explain how the data can be used to support planning and decision making.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the data requirements of a highly functional OR.
2. Describe the limitations of EMRs in delivering on those requirements.
3. Discuss how advanced analytics bridge the gap between the EMR and the OR.

Improving access to available OR time

Creating visibility and transparency in block management

Simplifying the process of booking OR time

Streamlining the process of managing the block schedule

This issue has been approved for 3.0 contact hours for physcians, nurse practitioners, nurses, social workers, certified case managers, psychologists, and licensed

This issue has been approved for 3.0 contact hours for physcians, nurse practitioners, nurses, social workers, certified case managers, psychologists, and licensed

This issue has been approved for 3.0 contact hours for physcians, nurse practitioners, nurses, social workers, certified case managers, psychologists, and licensed

This issue has been approved for 3.0 contact hours for physcians, nurse practitioners, nurses, social workers, certified case managers, psychologists, and licensed

Managing operating rooms is hard, especially without access to reliable and readily available data. EHRs, built to capture information about patients and their care, do not provide the required level of data visibility or reliability needed to make daily, let alone strategic decisions about expensive healthcare assets such as operating rooms.

 Ensuring surgeons have optimal access, knowing exactly where and how to drive efficiency, and delivering value to surgeons, patients, and staff is a constant challenge. A challenge that requires greater visibility into available operating room time and key performance indicators.

 Please join us as WakeMed Health and Hospital’s Business Manager, Surgical Services explains how his three-hospital health system has:

• Transitioned from manually compiling reports (EHR reports were inadequate)
• Established effective policies to drive value and efficiency
• Created capacity in their busy operating rooms, providing greater access to open time
• Delivered transparency that has changed surgeon practices

Additionally, iQueue for Operating Rooms’ Product Implementation Manager will walk through exciting and proven technology that has enabled organizations like WakeMed to leverage predictive and prescriptive analytics that break through historical barriers to OR value and efficiency.

Learning Objectives

• Analyze OR utilization and identify strategies for improvement
• Explain the benefits of creating more open time in the OR
• Understand how to effectively leverage data to change surgeon practices
• Explore how new technologies are optimizing operating room capacity

This issue has been approved for 3.0 contact hours for physcians, nurse practitioners, nurses, social workers, certified case managers, psychologists, and licensed

Operating rooms grapple with time lost due to late starts, lengthy turnovers, underutilized blocks, unused blocks, and more. At the same time, many surgeons are clamoring for increased access to handle more cases.

In this free webinar, Surgical Directions will present how to reclaim lost and wasted time that is holding back your OR. We will discuss how waste happens, how to measure it, and, critically, how to organize for success to convert the lost time into additional cases for your facility. With over 25 years of experience working at hundreds of hospitals and ASCs, the Surgical Directions team has the expertise to discuss ways to improve your financial performance and patient experience. 

Occupational contact dermatitis (OCD), an inflammatory skin condition that occurs due to workplace exposure, can have long-term consequences, causing some healthcare workers to miss work and even change jobs. Nurses working in surgical wards and intensive care units are at the highest risk among healthcare workers. 

Surgical gloves are a common culprit of both irritant and allergic contact dermatitis in the healthcare setting. Glove-associated irritants include wet work, friction, air occlusion, excessive sweating, and poor hand hygiene. In addition, wearers may incur allergic contact dermatitis to chemical additives, especially accelerators that are added to speed up the manufacturing process, in both latex and synthetic gloves. 

This free webinar will help you understand treatment and prevention measures relative to OCD, including switching to gloves that have been manufactured without chemicals accelerators known to cause contact dermatitis.