surgical services
Optimizing OR efficiency is critical to a hospital's care mission as well as its bottom line. Lagging start times and slow turnover between cases can cause staff and patients to become frustrated, costs to rise, and revenue opportunities to be lost.
AgileTrac Surgical Services from GE Healthcare can help you track and manage the flow of surgical patients and resources to reduce delays, enhance care, and open up capacity for more cases.
Drive efficiency
A busy OR requires precise coordination of resources, staff and patients AgileTrac Surgical Services uses Real-time Location System (RTLS) technology to track patient flow throughout the perioperative process. Data is transmitted to a central visualization system that enables staff to see in real time the exact status of each operating room and patient.- Milestone displays show completed and pending tasks
- Prompts are triggered when tasks are not performed
- Notifications are sent at each step in the care process - when the patient arrives in recovery, for example, room turnover personnel are notified
- Reducing turnover time by 10-20 minutes per case could free up capacity for 2-4 more cases per day.
Keep everyone informed
Procedure delays can jeopardize care and adversely affect the OR schedule. Your staff doesn't have time to search for equipment or for the patient who needs it. AgileTrac Surgical Services quickly locates equipment, and tracks schedules, pre- and post-operative information and patient locations to avoid delays. Critical patient and milestone information is integrated with your hospital's operating room information system (ORIS) and electronic medical record (EMR) for a seamless flow of information across the enterprise. Physicians can track patient progress from home or office via the secure facility intranet.Automate the details
By taking care of routine requests, AgileTrac Surgical Services enables your staff to focus on providing quality patient care. The system generates, tracks, and completes requests and notifications for patient beds, resources, equipment maintenance and repairs - so nothing gets lost or forgotten as with manual systems. AgileTrac does not replace your existing patient management systems. Rather, it integrates their disparate data on one dashboard and makes this information accessible and actionable.Improve and sustain
Understanding the gaps in your current OR workflow processes is the best way to improve your ability to respond in the future. Trend data from AgileTrac Surgical Services can be compared against specific benchmarks or metrics to guide process improvement. Leveraging AgileTrac technology, you can make sustainable changes to OR workflows that help:- Reduce surgical schedule delays and cancellations
- Avoid system bottlenecks and reduce the need for manual intervention
- Minimize delays in the patient care cycle
- Improve communication within the OR and to families
- Increase revenue through faster OR suite turnover