Despite being the financial backbone of hospitals, operating rooms remain riddled with inefficiencies: idle robots, unclaimed block time, reactive staffing and costly delays. This is the OR efficiency paradox. Hospitals have more surgical data than ever but still struggle to…
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Oregon Health & Science University runs 53 ORs across 4 sites and performs nearly 39,000 cases a year. With financial pressure and rising surgical volume, perioperative leaders needed a faster, more reliable way to staff rooms and sustain morale. This…
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Inefficiencies in documentation, contracts and workflows quietly chip away at revenue. Outdated revenue cycle management (RCM) practices can cost physician groups hundreds of thousands each year. Without a comprehensive operational review, many practices never realize how much potential income is slipping through the cracks.…
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Rising costs, fragmented systems and performance pressures are pushing hospitals to their limits. But some health systems are turning that pressure into progress — using trusted data and cross-functional collaboration to drive measurable improvement. For nearly twenty years, Health Catalyst…
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When physicians don’t have timely, easy-to-navigate EHR training, satisfaction with both IT and leadership declines and burnout rises. M Health Fairview experienced this firsthand. Fragmented learning systems and inconsistent support chipped away at clinician confidence and created operational bottlenecks —…
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Observation care is underused, inconsistently applied and frequently misunderstood — but it has a major role to play in reducing unnecessary inpatient admissions and controlling national health expenditures. This whitepaper explores how properly implemented observation care can support payer-provider alignment,…
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The U.S. healthcare system is caught in a paradox: more patients, more spending, more technology — and yet, stagnant productivity and persistent staffing gaps. Even as health sector employment rebounded by 2.6 million jobs post-pandemic, almost half of hospitals report…
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Millions of Americans suffer from movement disorders like essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease. However, patients often forgo treatment options due to the invasiveness and associated risks of some available procedures. Recognizing a critical unmet need in patient care, Oregon Health…
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Every minute, an emergency department somewhere in the U.S. is forced to turn away an ambulance. These incidents are not created by clinical limitations. They occur because of gridlocked hospital capacity, with more than 90% of hospitals reporting boarding ED…
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Patient access is under pressure as care costs climb, appointment wait times grow and staffing shortages persist. Nearly one-third of Americans live more than an hour from hospitals offering high-quality surgical services, with many facing out-of-pocket expenses they can’t afford.…
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