Cone Health, a leading not-for-profit health system in North Carolina, manages over 50,000 surgical cases annually across 73 operating and procedural rooms. Despite this scale, Cone Health faced persistent challenges with inefficient communication methods, limited schedule visibility and fragmented workflows which led to delays, cancellations and underutilization of staff resources.

In this session, the president of Central Carolina Surgery will discuss how Cone Health addressed these challenges by adopting a real-time workflow optimization system for surgical scheduling and coordination. This innovative system integrated advanced predictive and prescriptive analytics to enable better resource management, improve communication and provide full visibility into perioperative operations to save daily system-wide labor hours, reduce nearly all vendor calls and free up daily nurse availability.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the challenges of surgical coordination in high-volume health systems.
• Explore how real-time workflow optimization systems can eliminate inefficiencies and improve communication to transform perioperative operations.
• Identify actionable strategies for achieving measurable efficiency gains and enhancing resource utilization.

Faculty:

Matthew Tsuei, MD, FACS, President, Central Carolina Surgery, Duke Health\Chair, iQueue Committee, Cone Health

ACHE Qualifying Education Credit 

This activity is eligible for 1 ACHE Qualifying Education credit toward earning or maintaining your FACHE credential. 

Credits must be self-reported at My ACHE upon completion of this activity. 

 

Thank You, LeanTaaS

This program is made possible in part by the support of LeanTaaS, an ACHE Premier Corporate Partner. ACHE would like to thank LeanTaaS for its commitment to ACHE and helping us advance healthcare management excellence. Find more information about LeanTaaS here.