Webinar: Don't fear the difficult conversations: Optimize operating room performance with lessons from The University of Kansas Health System

It is challenging to discuss block allocation and utilization with surgeons, especially when data isn’t reliable and surgeons can take their cases elsewhere. Hospital management and perioperative leaders also face the difficult task of deciding how much time and flexibility new surgeons can be afforded to grow their practice, without tying up and underutilizing blocks.

It is critical to establish a more effective, less stressful program for managing and optimizing your organization’s operating room schedule. But how can you do so, given today’s challenging environment of constrained nursing and anesthesia resources?

Join The University of Kansas Health System’s (TUKHS) senior director of business operations, perioperative and procedural services to learn about creating an effective block management system. Attendees will discover how TUKHS was able to achieve a 20 percent increase in block utilization, enable a 5 percent increase in primetime utilization and facilitate 98 percent more manual releases/transfers of time before the auto-release deadlines – all in less than one year.

This webinar will explore how to:

• Define the characteristics of an effective block management system
• Identify ways to break through historical barriers and confidently make quicker block allocation decisions
• Explain why, even after a significant EHR investment, hospitals still need to invest in data management systems, particularly for the operating room

Ashley Walsh
Vice President of Client Services, iQueue for Operating Rooms and Inpatient Beds
LeanTaaS

Ashley is the vice president of client services at LeanTaaS, the leading artificial intelligence/machine learning analytics company in healthcare operations. LeanTaaS partners with over 130 healthcare organizations and 500 hospitals to improve patient access and lower delivery costs through its market-leading predictive analytics software. Ashley leads a nationwide team responsible for product sales and customer implementations for iQueue for Operating Rooms and iQueue for Inpatient Beds. Ashley was especially instrumental in the development and advancement of the iQueue for Operating Rooms product. She is a frequent thought leader and speaker at perioperative events.

Prior to joining LeanTaaS, Ashley was in perioperative administration within UCHealth for eight years. Ashley holds a Master of Health Administration degree.

Megan Eubanks
Senior director of business operations, perioperative and procedural services
The University of Kansas Health System

In Megan’s role as senior director of business operations, perioperative and procedural services, she has developed and now oversees a centralized support team. This team is designed to develop and implement business processes while providing clinical system workflow support to all departments within perioperative and procedural services, which include business development, informatics, revenue and resource, and centralized surgical and procedural scheduling. Her team is responsible for business operations oversight of 84 operating rooms and procedure rooms across nine locations.

Megan has a master’s in business administration, is certified in Lean Management for Healthcare, and is a frequent contributor to industry-leading practices through industry user and focus groups centered on EMR optimization, transformative processes and system development.

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