2025 OR Business Management Conference - Conference Sessions
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All 2025 sessions from the conference program.
| Spotlight Session: Navigating Towards Excellence - Enhancing Surgical Outcomes with AI and Staff Engagement, Sponsored by: Pegasys Medical, Inc. |
| Pre-Conference Workshop: Foundational Leadership Practicum Certificate of Mastery |
| Pre-Conference Workshop: Foundational Leadership Practicum Certificate of Mastery |
| ECRI's Top 10 Technology Hazards for 2025 |
| Upgrading the Scheduling Experience: Modernizing Scheduling Workflows |
| Spotlight Session: Maximizing OR Financial Performance with AI, Sponsored by: Opmed.ai |
| Opening Keynote: Charting Your Course to Success - Financial Wins through Value-Based Performance |
| Anchoring Profits: Restructuring Inventory Practices to Secure $200 Million in Cost Savings |
| All Hands-on-Deck: How to Justify Your Staffing Needs and FTEs |
| Spotlight Session: Enhancing Ambulatory Surgery Center Profitability - Leveraging Performance Improvement and Strategic Contracting, Sponsored by: Vizient |
| Course Correction: Negotiating Payor Rates in the ASC Setting |
| Surfs Up: Rolling Out the OAS CAHPS Survey |
| Smooth Sailing: Making Your EMR Work for You! |
| Charting Value: Transforming Financial Data into Operational Excellence |
| Breakfast Presentation: Leadership in Action - Creating Efficient, Resilient, and Thriving Healthcare Teams, Sponsored by: SIPS Consults Corporation |
| Cracking the Code: Innovative Hacks for Preference Card Management and C-Suite Support |
| Crew Incentives: 3 Guiding Principles to Leverage Value Analysis Teams |
| Luncheon Presentation - The ROI of OR Optimization: How Data-Driven Strategies Deliver Financial and Operational Gains, Sponsored by: LeanTaaS |
| Trimming the Sails: Improving Perioperative Efficiency by Managing Same-Day Admission Transitions |
| Anchors Away: 5 Strategies to Right-Size Your Inventory and Improve Supply Contracts |
| The Beacon of Leadership: 5 Ways Improv Can Help Boost Financial Performance |
| Breakfast Presentation - Oceans of Savings: A User-Friendly Approach to Scheduling and Preference Cards, Sponsored by: LiveData |
| Navigating the Storm: Ensuring Operational Continuity Through Crisis Leadership |
| Lighthouse Luncheon Presentations - Spotlight on Innovation, Sponsored by: AssistIQ and SpendMend |
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Opening Keynote: Charting Your Course to Success - Financial Wins through Value-Based Performance
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Open to listen to or download MP3 audio.
Hospitals across the country (and beyond) continue to face high performance pressures while stemming the burnout tide among clinicians and non-clinicians. How can we create and foster a work environment where there is alignment, autonomy, and everybody thrives while delivering high value for our patients? In this talk, Dr. Gallani will discuss some of the key lessons from the literature and from her own research that can contribute to a favorable transformation of healthcare delivery organizations. Institutions need to regain ownership of their own strategic goals and execution and leverage performance management tools that embrace diversity, empower agency, and align behaviors in the day-to-day decision making of all participants to the creation of value.
Presentation: Opening Keynote Charting Your Course to Success - Financial Wins through Value-Based Performance
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Open to download resource.
Setting Sail: Top 5 Business Trends for Ambulatory Surgery Centers in 2025
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Open to listen to or download MP3 audio.
This session will explore 5 key trends impacting Ambulatory Surgery Centers in 2025 and beyond. Prepare your team and brace for what’s to come so you can optimize performance at your ASC.
ECRI's Top 10 Technology Hazards for 2025
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Open to listen to or download MP3 audio.
Each year in January, ECRI publishes their Top 10 Health Technology Hazards. Produced by ECRI’s device evaluation group, the list identifies the potential sources of danger ECRI believes warrant the greatest attention for the coming year and offers practical recommendations for reducing risks. Attend this session, presented by ECRI, as they unveil their Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2025.
Presentation: ECRI's Top 10 Technology Hazards for 2025
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Open to download resource.
Upgrading the Scheduling Experience: Modernizing Scheduling Workflows
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Open to listen to or download MP3 audio.
Hear from one facility on how they underwent a widespread transformation of the scheduling process, bringing onboard new technology to optimize surgical scheduling. This case study will demonstrate a modernized approach to scheduling that impacted over 500 schedulers and nearly 50,000 cases per year. Since launch, an increase in approximately 4 inpatient cases per working day has been seen as well as a significant uptick in released block minutes and nearly 10% increase in block utilization.
Presentation: Upgrading the Scheduling Experience Modernizing Workflows
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Open to download resource.
Spotlight Session: Maximizing OR Financial Performance with AI, Sponsored by: Opmed.ai
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Open to listen to or download MP3 audio.
Join Kevin Roberts, former EVP & CFO of Geisinger, and Nick Palmieri, VP of Sales at Opmed.ai, for an insightful discussion on transforming OR financial performance through innovation. This session will explore how Geisinger addressed rising healthcare costs and operational inefficiencies by implementing AI-driven scheduling and resource optimization. Learn how the health system achieved concrete financial improvements while enhancing staff satisfaction and patient care quality.
Anchoring Profits: Restructuring Inventory Practices to Secure $200 Million in Cost Savings
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Open to listen to or download MP3 audio.
Join us as we explore a system-wide approach to restructuring inventory management practices with an ambitious goal to reduce spending by $200 million a year. This case study will share actionable strategies to overhaul inventory management practices leading to substantial cost savings.
Presentation: Anchoring Profits Restructuring Inventory Practices to Secure $200 Million in Cost Savings
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Open to download resource.
All Hands-on-Deck: How to Justify Your Staffing Needs and FTEs
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Open to listen to or download MP3 audio.
How do you get buy-in from your leadership team when you need to request more FTEs? How do you present your proposal while maintaining engagement and retention of current staff? What leadership styles increase employee satisfaction to achieve higher productivity that will lead to improved financial performance? Attend this session to learn how to justify the ROI for more FTEs, calculate the cost per case and address pain points for staffing.
Presentation: All Hands-on-Deck How to Justify Your Staffing Needs and FTEs
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Open to download resource.
Spotlight Session: Enhancing Ambulatory Surgery Center Profitability - Leveraging Performance Improvement and Strategic Contracting, Sponsored by: Vizient
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Open to listen to or download MP3 audio.
Ambulatory surgery center (ASC) and health system leaders face mounting pressures to balance quality care with financial sustainability. In this session, discover how Vizient is addressing these challenges through tailored performance improvement strategies and innovative contracting solutions. Learn how leaders can leverage Vizient’s expertise to optimize supply chain operations, streamline workflows, and enhance payer contracting for improved financial outcomes. Gain actionable insights into reducing costs and driving profitability—all while maintaining a patient-centered approach. Join us to explore real-world solutions that empower ASC leaders to thrive in an evolving healthcare landscape.
Presentation: Spotlight Session: Enhancing Ambulatory Surgery Center Profitability - Leveraging Performance Improvement and Strategic Contracting, Sponsored by: Vizient
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Open to download resource.
Course Correction: Negotiating Payor Rates in the ASC Setting
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Open to listen to or download MP3 audio.
Operating expenses continue to rise with very little increase in reimbursement rates. This session discusses best practices in negotiating managed care contracts and other payor contracts in the ambulatory setting.
Presentation: Course Correction: Negotiating Payor Rates in the ASC Setting
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Open to download resource.
Surfs Up: Rolling Out the OAS CAHPS Survey
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Open to listen to or download MP3 audio.
Starting in 2025, Medicare-certified Ambulatory Surgery Centers will be required to participate in the Outpatient and Ambulatory Surgery Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (OAS CAHPS) Survey to comply with the ASC Quality Reporting Program. This session will explore the requirements to prepare ASC Administrators for compliance so they do not face reduced Medicare reimbursement rates in the future.
Presentation: Surfs Up: Rolling Out the OAS CAHPS Survey
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Open to download resource.
Smooth Sailing: Making Your EMR Work for You!
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Open to listen to or download MP3 audio.
This session provides foundational concepts for using EHRs to monitor performance. Hear 2 unique case studies from different hospitals using different EHR systems. Learn how they extract data, monitor performance, speak to the numbers and transform their block management process.
Presentation: Smooth Sailing: Making Your EMR Work for You!
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Open to download resource.
Charting Value: Transforming Financial Data into Operational Excellence
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Open to listen to or download MP3 audio.
In a time where external forces shape our finances as much as our surgical case mix, OR Business Managers must adeptly communicate the fiscal health of their departments to diverse audiences—from C-suite executives and board members to front-line staff. In this presentation, we explore strategies to distill complex financial data into actionable insights to improve operational excellence.
Additionally, this session will dive into strategies to enhance your own understanding of clinical operations, including cross-functional partnerships and the use of AI enabled tools.
Presentation: Charting Value: Transforming Financial Data into Operational Excellence
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Open to download resource.
Breakfast Presentation: Leadership in Action - Creating Efficient, Resilient, and Thriving Healthcare Teams, Sponsored by: SIPS Consults Corporation
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Open to listen to or download MP3 audio.
This session delves into the critical role leadership plays in fostering high-performing healthcare teams. It outlines key strategies for creating efficient, resilient, and thriving teams capable of navigating the complexities and stresses of modern healthcare operations.
Presentation: Leadership in Action - Creating Efficient, Resilient, and Thriving Healthcare Teams, Sponsored by: SIPS Consults Corporation
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Open to download resource.
Cracking the Code: Innovative Hacks for Preference Card Management and C-Suite Support
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Open to listen to or download MP3 audio.
The process of effectively managing your surgeon preference cards may feel like a never-ending chore. This session uncovers innovative tools that can help you level-up your preference cards and operate at peak performance.
Presentation: Cracking the Code: Innovative Hacks for Preference Card Management
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Open to download resource.
Crew Incentives: 3 Guiding Principles to Leverage Value Analysis Teams
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Open to listen to or download MP3 audio.
Value analysis teams can improve efficiencies and costs by assessing the impact of new products on existing practices and workflows. This session will showcase best practices for valuing the use of supplies by conducting thorough research and evaluating product approval systems. Learn how to leverage value analysis teams to optimize performance.
Presentation: Crew Incentives: 3 Guiding Principles to Leverage Value Analysis Teams
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Open to download resource.
Luncheon Presentation - The ROI of OR Optimization: How Data-Driven Strategies Deliver Financial and Operational Gains, Sponsored by: LeanTaas
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Open to listen to or download MP3 audio.
This session will feature a panel discussion with leaders from MedStar Health, Northwell Health, and the University of Tennessee Medical Center, highlighting their journeys to transform OR operations. Gain insights into how these organizations used data-driven decision-making and technology to unlock capacity, reduce manual processes, and capture additional case volume. Learn how these efforts resulted in measurable ROI while improving patient access and driving sustainable efficiency gains.
Trimming the Sails: Improving Perioperative Efficiency by Managing Same-Day Admission Transitions
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Open to listen to or download MP3 audio.
Same-day admission delays present significant challenges, disrupting perioperative efficiency, impacting the patient journey, and negatively affecting the overall patient experience. Data and case studies highlight how these delays contribute to inefficiencies across the perioperative spectrum, leading to extended wait times and reduced operational flow. To address these issues, strategies such as optimizing pre-admission processes, refining admission day protocols, and enhancing OR coordination are essential. This session dives into the technology tools available to assess risk, minimize admission delays, optimize efficiencies and improve financial performance.
Presentation: Trimming the Sails: Improving Perioperative Efficiency by Managing Same-Day Admission Transitions
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Open to download resource.
Anchors Away: 5 Strategies to Right-Size Your Inventory and Improve Supply Contracts
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Open to listen to or download MP3 audio.
One of the largest expenses to the OR is the cost of equipment and supplies. How can you instill lean practices while ensuring you have what you need? This session is a must-attend for OR Business Managers looking for ways to improve their inventory practices and the bottom line.
Presentation: Anchors Away: 5 Strategies to Right-Size Your Inventory and Improve Supply Contracts
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Open to download resource.
The Beacon of Leadership: 5 Ways Improv Can Help Boost Financial Performance
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Open to listen to or download MP3 audio.
As a Business Manager in perioperative services, your team’s engagement is crucial for driving financial success. To achieve this, you must foster trust, inspire innovative thinking, and enhance collaboration. This dynamic, interactive session leverages improvisation techniques to strengthen relationships, solve problems, adapt to change, and create efficient processes. Join us for an exhilarating experience where you’ll learn to adapt your leadership style through the fun and impactful art of improv!
Breakfast Presentation - Oceans of Savings: A User-Friendly Approach to Scheduling and Preference Cards, Sponsored by: LiveData
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Open to listen to or download MP3 audio.
In this session, you will learn how using digital preference cards and OR scheduling tools will help you get the data you need to empower your team. Surgical business managers will discover strategies for reducing costs per case, optimizing labor utilization, and managing inventory effectively. Nurses will discover time-saving strategies for preference card management and room turnover.
With real-world insights from the OR, attendees will leave with actionable solutions to streamline processes and drive measurable improvements in their surgical department.
Lighthouse Luncheon Presentation - Spotlight on Innovation, Sponsored by: AssistIQ and SpendMend
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Open to listen to or download MP3 audio.
Three ways AI is fixing costly problems in the OR — today.
Presentation: Lighthouse Luncheon Presentation - Spotlight on Innovation, Sponsored by: AssistIQ and SpendMend
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Open to download resource.
Navigating the Storm: Ensuring Operational Continuity Through Crisis Leadership
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Open to listen to or download MP3 audio.
When disaster strikes, operational continuity determines an organization’s ability to overcome chaos, maintain safety, and ensure positive clinical outcomes. In this closing keynote, Tampa General Hospital’s Public Safety and OR leadership team will share their extraordinary response to back-to-back storms and other critical crises, including a debilitating cyberattack and supply shortages. Through real-world examples and critical emergency drills, attendees will gain insights into holistic emergency management planning, cross-department collaboration, and resilience strategies that transcend geographic boundaries. Whether your organization faces hurricanes, blizzards, or other disruptive events, this session will provide actionable tools to build readiness, mitigate risk, and ensure business continuity.
Presentation: Navigating the Storm: Ensuring Operational Continuity Through Crisis Leadership
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Open to download resource.
Riding the Wave: Considerations to Making Anesthesia Profitable in Today's Labor Market
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Open to listen to or download MP3 audio.
Engagement of anesthesia staff is critical for ASCs due to the shortage of anesthesia providers. Attend this session to learn how ASCs can work with providers to schedule anesthesia staff resources. In addition, this session will address the cost of medications and price transparency on different anesthesia choices.
Presentation: Riding the Wave: Considerations to Making Anesthesia Profitable in Today's Labor Market
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Open to download resource.
Hoisting the Sails: Winning Strategies for Growing Service Lines in an ASC
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Open to listen to or download MP3 audio.
This session will dive into strategies for evaluating new service lines to expand or introduce in your ASC. Discover key trends related to new services in orthopedics, neurology and cardiovascular and understand why these specialized service lines can offer significant returns on investment for your ASC when evaluated appropriately.
