Changing Surgical Landscape.
The healthcare industry strives to decrease expenditures and reduce costs, and reimbursements are shifting from fee-for-service to quality and value-linked care.
One result is that more surgical procedures are being performed in outpatient settings.
Ambulatory care unit and surgicenter survival will depend upon a business model that will provide high quality, efficient care that emphasizes patient satisfaction and convenience.
As ACU’s compete for the increased surgical volume, facilities will be more attractive when they can benchmark perioperative performance metrics regarding patient safety, operational and financial efficiency and patient satisfaction.
The Drive for Data.
Survial of ambulatory care units and surgicenters will depend upon a business model that will provide high quality, efficient care that emphasizes patient satisfaction and convenience.
As more surgical procedures are performed in the ambulatory setting, more attention will be paid to their opertion.
ACU’s that can benchmark perioperative performance metrics will be more competitive to attract this volume. when they can prove statistics regarding patient safety, operational and financial efficiency and patient satisfaction.
The Drive for Ambulatory Setting.
Recordation Workstation strives to achieve a balance between usefulness of the information and the effort required to collect the data.
The importance of obtaining and reviewing operating room metrics can not be overemphasized for maintaining operational efficiency that will determine the long-term survivability of ambulatory care centers and community hospitals. Understanding these metrics, along with block utilization, can determine the most efficient use of operating room time.
This can improve operating use of time in busy operating rooms, and can set the stage for anticipated growth when new surgeons come along and the workforce determination for the amount of volume.
Data analytics can also allow the determination of which procedures are most profitable and which physicians are the most efficient, and will help to determine the most appropriate scheduling parameters, based upon surgical personnel starting on time, taking as long as they predict, and anesthesia personnel with appropriate induction and emergence times.
As Recordation Workstation also collect expense information on anesthetic medications and supplies, this information can be used to manage expenses, track practice efficiency patterns, and facilitated icd10 and CPt4 coding can be used to understand the costs/profitibility of procedures.
What does this mean?
Why are reports useful?
Analytics and Reporting.
Operating room metrics are nevertheless critical to collect with regard to basics, if any knowledge is to be gained regarding patient throughput.
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Sources:
1: The estimates in this Statistical Brief are based upon data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization
Project (HCUP) 2014 National Inpatient Sample (NIS) and 2014 nationwide ambulatory surgery
analytic file created from the State Ambulatory Surgery and Services Databases (SASD), weighted
for national estimates.
https://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb223-Ambulatory-Inpatient-Surgeries-2014.pdf
http://www.beckersasc.com/asc-turnarounds-ideas-to-improve-performance/go-beyond-analytics-how-business-intelligence-can-make-ascs-more-money-part-1.html