Automation Driving Improved Surgical Case Coordination
Reduce Manual Hours Spent on Repetitive Tasks for Improved Vendor Case Coordination
In the world of healthcare, where efficiency and cost control are essential to maintaining high standards of patient care, adopting automation is paramount to achieving these objectives, especially in often underserved sectors like the patient-specific supply chain. By helping transform how clinical staff manage physician preference items and vendor coordination, Casechek’s Auto-Assign brings hospitals one step closer to gaining control over the rep-managed supply chain. With Auto-Assign, clients can automate the coordination of physician preference items and vendor scheduling without lifting a finger. Auto-Assign eliminates manual and repetitive tasks and helps free up clinical resources for higher-value work.
This blog delves into the critical role of automation in healthcare, discussing the challenges of manual tasks and showcasing the revolutionary impact of Casechek’s Auto-Assign.
Revisiting the Challenge of Manual Coordination
In our previous blog Why Automation is Crucial for Healthcare: Introducing Auto-Assign, we explored the drawbacks of manual, repetitive tasks and their impact on employees. A 2019 McKinsey Report revealed that healthcare, despite being people-led, lags behind in productivity and digital adoption, making it imperative to streamline processes and reduce the burden of repetitive tasks.
Why Automation is Crucial for Healthcare
Healthcare, contributing 29% of the net new jobs in the US economy from 2001 to 2016, is highly dependent on human resources. This is an issue for the healthcare industry given that there is an ongoing industry-wide labor shortage. In fact, since 2020, nearly 1 in 5 healthcare workers have quit their jobs.
We’ve found that with a manual process, it takes roughly 271 hours from the time of a case to select the physician preferences items and get the vendor scheduled and assigned. Given the dependency on human resources, asking healthcare professionals to invest time in tedious administrative tasks is not only cost-ineffective but increases the chances of burnout, lack of satisfaction, and potential risk of human error. McKinsey suggests that automation is the key to overcoming the challenges caused by human error, with automation having a 70% correlation to productivity. Automation innovations like Auto-Assign remove repetitive tasks, such as vendor scheduling, from clinical resources. In doing so, these valuable and highly constrained resources can shift their focus to higher-value work only they can perform.
Auto-Assign: A Paradigm Shift in Procurement
Casechek’s Procurement Solution, featuring Auto-Assign, is a powerful tool to help revolutionize surgical case coordination and tray management through automation; the platform empowers healthcare organizations to prescriptively control and manage vendor orders seamlessly. Casechek clients have experienced an incredible 79.7% reduction in time from case creation, item selection, and vendor acceptance, underlining the transformative potential of Auto-Assign.
Faster Vendor Scheduling with Auto-Assign
On average, with Auto-Assign, preference items, and vendors are confirmed and scheduled 26.8 days earlier than when not using Auto-Assign. Clients have experienced a 50%-364% improvement in vendor scheduling confirmation.
The University of Iowa’s Adoption Success and Testimonial
The University of Iowa’s rapid adoption of Auto-Assign, with over 40% of cases moved over to Auto-Assign templates within three months, stands as a testament to Auto-Assign’s transformative power.
In the words of an RN/BSN Orthopedic Nurse Manager at the University of Iowa Hospital & Clinics, the immediate impact of Auto-Assign was vividly expressed: “I started plugging in vendors for our most common trauma cases today, and it is already working! I signed on to copy our vendors for tomorrow’s trauma room, and it was already done.” This enthusiastic early feedback underscores the user-friendly and efficient nature of Auto-Assign, showing how it seamlessly integrates into the daily workflow.
A Future of Efficiency and Productivity
As we look forward, the introduction of Auto-Assign not only promises increased efficiency in OR coordination but also holds the potential to enhance employee satisfaction. By alleviating the burden of repetitive tasks, healthcare professionals can redirect their focus to more impactful and rewarding work, ultimately contributing to a more positive and productive workplace environment.
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