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Day 2 ready! Find us in Booth 538 at OR Manager today to learn more about operating room intelligence and grab a donut 🍩

At the OR Manager Conference? Don’t go into your next session on an empty stomach — swing by booth #538 for a donut and a quick chat with our team 🍩

Amidst all the noise surrounding Artificial Intelligence in healthcare, some AI applications, like Ambient AI, are quietly working behind the scenes to reshape how clinicians operate. Ambient AI distinguishes itself through its autonomy and uses advanced technology to monitor, detect, record, and generate insights from audio and video. It operates in the background to alleviate clinicians’ documentation and administrative workload. As pressure mounts to boost efficiency while reducing stress on providers, ambient AI offers a solution that works behind the scenes without requiring any human intervention. Read more on the potential for ambient AI in Forbes: https://lnkd.in/eH__Wh2U

OR managers have historically prescribed three strategies to speed up turnovers: the extra bodies solution, the pit crew solution, and the vertical integration solution. What improvements have turnover teams achieved, and what problems persist? Check out our latest blog post to learn the challenges legacy approaches to turnover efficiency have faced, especially absent of good metrics. https://lnkd.in/gsk9T5cy

Apella’s headed to Las Vegas! Swing by Booth #538 at the upcoming OR Manager Conference to meet the team and learn how to streamline the surgical workflow with: 📊 Real-time data analytics 🩺 Source of truth care coordination ⌛ Up-to-the minute scheduling #ORMC2024 

Turnovers present a complicated dependency between operations and logistics. Because the next case cannot start until the breakdown and cleanup from the last one has been completed, the entire downstream schedule is affected by the efficiency of not only one turnover, but compounded by each subsequent turnover’s speed and timeliness. Check out our latest blog post to learn about the three biggest challenges to efficient operating room turnovers for the surgical tech, circulating nurse, and environmental services. https://lnkd.in/gYPqHn-a

Throughout history, technological advances have stirred fears of human obsolescence. During the Industrial Revolution, when factories introduced machines, workers feared replacement. Calculators in classrooms were met with skepticism by teachers who thought students might ignore their math education. Even the advent of personal computers raised similar worries among office workers. However, technology has ultimately reshaped industries and allowed people to focus on more complex, meaningful tasks. Today, we witness comparable apprehensions regarding artificial intelligence in the healthcare sector. Yet, just as past innovations existed to support, not replace, human efforts, AI is designed to help health professionals provide better patient care and achieve levels of productivity that would otherwise be impossible. A 2023 survey by Tebra highlights the growing adoption of AI technologies in healthcare. The survey reveals that over 10% of healthcare professionals have already incorporated AI into their practices, and nearly 50% plan to do so in the near future. While these advancements are promising, it's important to remember that the core of healthcare — human understanding — cannot be replicated by machines or algorithms. Rather than replacing human healthcare providers, AI can serve as a powerful ally in the industry. By automating administrative tasks and routine workflows, AI can alleviate the time and, especially, the multitasking burden on clinicians and other professionals, allowing them to focus more on direct patient care. This improves the quality of patient interactions, helps reduce burnout, and increases job satisfaction among healthcare workers. Furthermore, integrating AI can help healthcare institutions streamline their operations, reduce costs, and enhance overall efficiency. However, commitment from all healthcare staff is necessary for AI to reach its full potential in healthcare. Adoption goes beyond simply integrating new tools; it requires a shift in mindset and workflow. Without this commitment, AI's promise to transform patient care, optimize operations, and diminish administrative overload may remain unrealized. Healthcare professionals are not being replaced by AI; instead, they can embrace it as a collaborative partner. The responsibility also lies with tech companies. AI products should be designed to simplify the lives of healthcare workers rather than complicate them. AI tools must be intuitive and easily integrated, explicitly tailored to meet the needs of medical professionals. If the technology introduces complexity or poses challenges in adoption, it will likely fail in its mission to enhance or unblock patient care. Done right, AI will empower healthcare professionals. By automating mundane tasks and offering actionable insights, AI enables clinicians to concentrate on what matters most: providing compassionate care to their patients. #AIinHealthcare #HealthcareInnovation #AI #MedTech

Check out our new video to learn how Apella’s AI computer vision automatically tracks the moments that matter in the OR to help hospitals of all sizes cut overtime by 10%, improve schedule accuracy by 24%, and add 10% more cases without compromising quality of care.

Looking forward to attending HLTH USA next week. It is so exciting to see the technology advance so quickly in healthcare. Shoot me a message if you want to connect in Vegas Monday or Tuesday.

The rise of AI in healthcare has sparked a wave of excitement, but there is still a significant gap between AI's potential and readiness for implementation. While 97% of CIOs surveyed by The Harris Poll agree that AI will play an important role over the next five years, only a little more than half of IT leaders feel confident about their ability to implement it successfully. By bridging this gap and addressing AI integration challenges, the industry can facilitate innovative, user-friendly solutions that streamline providers' work and improve patient outcomes. Explore the full survey results here: https://lnkd.in/g-DxwgFB