Download or read book A Study to Determine the Optimal Operating Room Scheduling System for the Santa Rosa Medical Center in San Antonio Texas written by Peter Schroeder and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of the Operating Room Scheduling System at Tripler Army Medical Center Hawaii written by Charles F. Fehring and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines various scheduling systems in order to determine which scheduling system would be best for scheduling operating room usage at Tripler Army Medical Center, Hawaii. It is concluded that the optimum solution to the problem of determining the best operating room scheduling system at Tripler is to computerize the scheduling system. As delineated in the discussion, the abundance of advantages favor a computerized scheduling system. A computerized system is the only solution that meets all of the criteria discussed earlier in this study. Even its disadvantages can be surmounted. There are no current resource constraints to developing, implementing, and using a computerized system.
Download or read book A Systems Approach for Re engineering Hospital Operating Room Scheduling Policies written by Faranak Foolad and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the recent changes in the American healthcare system, it is becoming increasinglychallenging for hospitals to produce a positive bottom line. The operating room presents itself with astrong potential for helping hospitals bring in revenue. However, in order to be profitable, operatingrooms must schedule cases in such a way that optimizes utilization and pleases all stakeholders.Stakeholders include physicians, patients, staff, and hospital administrators. Clearly with so manystakeholders whom have a variety of preferences, this scheduling process can be very challenging. Whilethere has been previous research on this topic, there are still conflicting views on which schedulingmethod is optimal. This study aims to explore several methods of scheduling cases in the operating room,and determine which method is most beneficial to a hospital. This research utilizes MATLAB to run acomputer simulation, which models an operating room and the arrival of surgical cases. Performancemeasures are then used to compare the simulated schedules.
Download or read book A Study to Determine an Optimum Patient Scheduling System for Ancillary Services at Research Hospital and Medical Center Kansas City Missouri written by Emwood Odom and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improvements in the Administrative Efficiency of the Operating Room System by Using an Automated Scheduling System at William Beaumont Army Medical Center written by Fernando Martinez and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late 1982, it was announced that a Tri-Service Medical Information Systems (TRIMIS) Hospital Information System (HIS) was to be installed at William Beaumont Army Medical Center, El Paso, Texas, as well as at a USAF Regional Hospital Information, and a Naval Regional Medical Center. This study focuses on Beaumont where all inpatient and outpatient activities were to be integrated into the system - one which would serve as a communications network, patient data collection system, and an administrative data system. The proposed system, however, did not include scheduling software for the facility's operating room. The author set up an automated operating room scheduling system utilizing a TRS80 microcomputer, and showed that numerous manhours could be saved in the preparation of daily operating room schedules, the register of operations, and the monthly statistical report. He recommended that the TRIMIS HIS proposal be modified to include the Operating Room Service System. Keywords: Health care, Automated operating room scheduling system; Medical services. (SDW).
Download or read book Determination of Optimal Hospital Operating Room Policies written by Elliott N. Weiss and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Developing a Data driven Approach for Improving Operating Room Scheduling Processes written by Gregory Chi-Keung Sham and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the current healthcare environment, the cost of delivering patient care is an important concern for hospitals. As a result, healthcare organizations are being driven to maximize their existing resources, both in terms of infrastructure and human capital. Using a data-driven approach with analytical techniques from operations management can contribute towards this goal. More specifically, this thesis shows, drawing from a recent project at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), that predictive modeling can be applied to operating room (OR) scheduling in order to effectively increase capacity. By examining the current usage of the existing block schedule system at BIDMC and developing a linear regression model, OR time that is expected to go unused can be instead identified in advance and freed for use. Sample model results show that it is expected to be operationally effective by capturing a large enough portion of OR time for a pooled set of blocks to be useful for advanced scheduling purposes. This analytically determined free time represents an improvement in how the current block system is employed, especially in terms of the nominal block release time. This thesis makes the argument that such a model can integrate into a scheduling system with more efficient and flexible processes, ultimately resulting in more effective usage of existing resources.
Download or read book Operating room Scheduling at Tucson Medical Center Tucson Arizona written by James M. Feltis and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abstracts of Hospital Management Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Analysis of Operating Room Scheduling Problems at New York Hospital written by Leonard L. Reinsmith and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To Determine the Method of Scheduling Surgery to Optimize Utilization of Surgical Resources at Landstuhl Army Regional Medical Center written by Glade R. Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study was conducted to determine the optimum method of scheduling surgery to make maximum use of the surgical facilities at Landstuhl Army Regional Medical Center. Current scheduling methods were assessed. Other Army medical facilities were surveyed to establish alternative methods of scheduling and compare use rates. A need for an improved method of surgery scheduling was established. The author recommended a central surgery scheduling office. Keywords: Medical facilities; Surgery facilities scheduling; Scheduling; Management. (kt).
Download or read book Improve Operating Room Utilization Through Distributed Scheduling Workflow and Automation written by Miteshkumar Mahendrabhai Vasoya and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operating room (OR) plays a crucial role in health care, contributing more than 50% of the hospital's revenue and incurring over 35% of the hospital's expense, ultimately determining the hospital's profitability. Moreover, because the OR is a primary source of admissions, it is virtually impossible to streamline hospital‐wide workflow without first streamlining patient flow through the OR. Unfortunately, current OR scheduling practices often limit the utilization of OR, one of the most expensive resources in the health care industry, to around 60%. On the other hand, many patients have to wait an excessively long time before their surgeries can be accommodated while the operating room goes unused. This also results in costlier healthcare services. For instance, a 2005 study of 100 US hospitals found that OR charges averaged $62/min (range: $22 to133/min). In this thesis research, I have proposed, developed and validated an effective and practical solution to improve utilization of operating room through a novel scheduling automation system, with a particular emphasis on how it will affect the real users (like a surgeon, nurse, administrators, and etc) in the workflow. Our goal is to develop a OR scheduling system that demands minimal changes in the current workflow in clinic practices and maximize its acceptance and retention by a physician, nurse, administrator, scheduler, medical device distributors, etc. A theoretic study through stochastic modeling and queueing system simulations are first carried out to validate our central hypothesis and the corresponding potential performance gain in OR utilization when using our approach. Then, we complete the system architecture design that helps overcome the practical hassle and achieve the performance gain through a mobile device -enabled distributed scheduling workflow and a data-analytics based scheduling automation that facilitate our proposed scheduling practices. Finally, a fully-fledged scheduling system has been completed for potential adoption in real-world operation. OR datasets from a local hospital have been used to validate the performance of the scheduling system. The results demonstrated clearly the significant improvement in OR utilization and cost reduction. Moreover, physicians who participated in the initial trial and review have expressed clear acceptance of this OR scheduling system as it greatly simplifies the current scheduling workflow. As a result, we believe that the broad adoption of this novel scheduling system will lead to significant improvement of OR utilization of over 30%, which will ultimately improve the overall workflow efficiency and increase revenue in hospitals and improve the care quality for patients.
Download or read book Variability in Operating room Scheduling at St Anthony Hospital Oklahoma City Oklahoma written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Operating Room Leadership and Perioperative Practice Management written by Alan David Kaye and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective leadership is critical to ensuring safety, efficiency and maximum productivity in the operating room (OR). This practical, evidence-based book unpicks the dynamics of a successful OR environment to underline the key techniques for management of policies, systems, staff members and teams. Fully updated to include recent clinical guidelines, the book provides the 'A-Z' of OR management, including sections on metrics, scheduling, human resource management, leadership principles, economics, quality assurance, recovery and ambulatory practice. New chapters include future healthcare models, emergency preparedness and budgets amongst other topics. Written by authors with unrivalled experience in the field, chapters are laid out in an easy and clinically helpful format to assist learning, and real-life case studies cover seventy-three different clinically relevant pain topics. This book is an essential guide for anyone working in the OR including anaesthesiologists, surgeons, nurses, and administrators.
Download or read book Planning and Scheduling Surgeries Under Stochastic Environment written by Sangdo Choi and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation presents an integrated approach to planning and scheduling surgeries in operating-rooms (ORs) at strategic, tactical and operational levels. We deal with uncertainties of surgery demand and durations to reflect a reality in OR management. This strategic part of the dissertation studies capacity decisions that allocate surgical specialties to OR days with the objective of minimizing total expected costs due to penalties for any patients who are not accommodated and for under- (i.e., idleness) and over- (i.e., overtime) usage of OR capacity. It presents a prototypical non-linear, stochastic programming model to structure the problem and four adaptations, along with associated solution approaches, with the goal of facilitating solution by overcoming the computational disadvantages of the prototype. Each of these models offers advantages but is also attended by disadvantages. Computational tests compare the four models and solution approaches with respect to solution quality and run time. The tactical part of the dissertation prescribes an approach to optimize a master surgical schedule (MSS), which adheres to the block scheduling policy, using a new type of newsvendor-based model. Our newsvendor approach prescribes the optimal duration of each block and the best permutation, obtained by solving the sequential newsvendor problem, determines the optimal block sequence. We obtain closed-form solutions for the case in which surgery durations follow the normal distribution. Furthermore, we give a closed-form solution for optimal block duration with no-shows. We conduct numerical tests for surgery durations that follow normal, lognormal and gamma distributions. Results show that the closed-form solutions associated with the normal distribution gives close approximations to solutions associated with log-normal and gamma distributions. The operational part of the dissertation prescribes an optimal rule to sequence two or three surgeries in a block. The smallest-variance-first-rule (SV) is generally accepted as the optimal policy for sequencing two surgeries, although it has been proven formally only for several restricted cases. We extend prior work, studying three distributions as models of surgery duration (the lognormal, gamma, and normal) and including overtime in a total-cost objective function comprising surgeon-and-patient- waiting-, operating-room-idle-, and staff over-times. We specify expected waiting- and idle- time as functions of the parameters of surgery duration to identify the best rule to sequence two surgeries. We compare the relative values of expected waiting- and idle- times numerically with that of expected overtime. Results recommend that the SV rule be used to minimize total expected cost of waiting-, idle- and over-time. We find that gamma and normal distributions with the same mean and variance as the lognormal give nearly the same expected waiting- and idle- times, observing that the lognormal in combination with either the gamma or normal gives a similar result. Lastly, the dissertation investigates an appointment system with deterministic arrival times (D) and non-identical exponential service times (M). For two customers, we show that both the smallest-mean-first-rule and the SV minimize the sum of expected waiting- and idle-times. We prove that neither is optimal for three customers, but verifies that the first customer in the sequence should be the one with the smallest variance (mean). The electronic version of this dissertation is accessible from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/148063
Download or read book Operating Room Management written by Ronald A. Gabel and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 1999 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anesthesiologists and a nurse manager from the University of Rochester, New York describe the environment and design of operating rooms, for immediate managers or others who have broad administrative or fiscal responsibilities for the suite. Focusing on business strategies, the discuss such aspects as organizational structure, financial management, accounting principles, inventory control, operations management, and marketing. The goal is to improve quality, increase productivity, and reduce costs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book An Analysis of the Surgery Scheduling Process at Madigan Army Medical Center Tacoma Washington written by Ethan J. Stansbury and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study was performed to show a more efficient/effective means of scheduling surgeries at Madigan Army Medical Center. The concept of a surgery scheduling process using predictive data should be disseminated throughout the military health care system. This systematic approach to operating room scheduling management has a demonstrated potential to increase utilization, decrease cancellations, improve staff efficiency and increase patient satisfaction. (sdw).
