The effectiveness of your patient scheduling and management process is directly correlated with the ability to optimize utilization of:

• Surgeon / Anesthesia / Nursing Time
• Operating Rooms
• Supplies / Equipment / Instrumentation Rooms

Effective patient scheduling practices will also assist in minimizing staff overtime and maintaining satisfaction among patients, surgeons, anesthesia, and nursing.

The ability to ensure all the necessary resources to perform a specific surgical procedure are available at a specific time requires guidelines that are well defined and enforced. Our approach offers insight into the aspects of your patient scheduling program that are challenging efficiency improvements. Key areas often include:

• Block Allocation & Management Policy
• Shared Resource Management & Conflict Checking
• Urgent / Emergent / Add On Case Management
• Scheduled Case Time Estimations / Algorithms
• Proactive Schedule Review
• Set Up / Clean Up Time Analysis
• Day of Surgery Schedule Management