What We Learned: 2024 OR Business Management Conference

By: Patrick Spellacy, Director of Marketing

Recently, ReadySet Surgical was fortunate enough to participate in the OR Business Management Conference (ORBMC), a fantastic event where we spoke and listened to some of the best and brightest thought leaders in the industry.

And if there was a common theme throughout the week in Phoenix, it's that achieving operational excellence within the OR is critical for optimizing patient care and resource utilization.

That sounds great - but how can you do it?

We'll explore some of the strategies and solutions discussed at ORBMC that stood out to us, hopefully shedding some light on successful approaches to enhancing OR efficiency and driving continuous and sustainable improvement.

Our Key Takeaways:

1. Prioritizing Data-Driven Workforce Solutions for Operational Improvements

In today's healthcare environment, optimizing resource allocation and utilization is critical for delivering high-quality care efficiently. Using data-driven insights allows healthcare providers to allocate resources effectively, ensuring assets such as staff, equipment, and other valuables are utilized optimally. This is a proactive approach that not only improves operational efficiency but also enhances patient outcomes by minimizing wait times, reducing errors, and maximizing patient care.

2. Fostering Collaboration between OR and SPD

The partnership between the OR and sterile processing is so important, given their environments' dynamic nature and pivotal roles in patient safety. With inadequate communication and teamwork, hospitals face increased risks of disjointed processes that can lead to a lack of visibility, rushed reprocessing, and delayed cases. Effective communication and collaboration strategies result in enhanced surgical care delivery, where every interaction between the OR and SPD contributes to better care and improved patient outcomes.

3. Redefining Healthcare Delivery with Technology

Technology plays an ever-increasing role in reshaping the delivery of care, and it seems to evolve every single day. Technology automates and simplifies workflows to enable care teams to focus more time on patient care activities while alleviating potential caregiver burnout. Most importantly, technology facilitates a more robust and patient-centric approach to care delivery, empowering providers to deliver personalized and effective treatments while enhancing the overall patient experience.

ReadySet Surgical

The exciting part of listening to all the different speakers at these sessions was drawing parallels between the topics being covered to what we're already doing at ReadySet:

• Connecting disparate data systems to establish a single source of truth for decision makers to help them improve their operational and financial workflows in their loaner tray management and bill-only processes.
• Simplifying case coordination to ensure that staff both in the OR and SPD are aligned and know what to expect and when.
• Driving top-of-license performance by eliminating manual, administrative tasks to empower caregivers to focus on patient care.
• Aligning people, processes, and technology to create an agile platform that scales and supports a hospital's best practices as they grow.

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