Challenging Times May Offer Opportunities for Change - How to Reduce Excess Instrumentation at Your Hospital

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about many previously unforeseen challenges. It has also heightened awareness of existing opportunities for more efficient and cost-effective practices in healthcare. This is particularly true for surgical services, as many hospitals begin planning for a resurgence of elective surgery volume.

OpFlow recognizes that one of the areas of potential improvement for many hospitals is sterile processing and instrument tray management. We have diligently aligned our expertise in this area with an ability to perform an extended portion of our analysis remotely. With this offering, we are able to limit any additional work for surgical services team members and in turn present a service of high value to your hospital.

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It will come as no surprise to anyone working in the OR that on average 80% of instruments opened for a case are never used.

Our data-driven process has demonstrated many benefits, including:

  • 30-40% decrease in recurring surgical instrument expenses

  • Improved SPD throughput

  • Shortened OR set-up time

  • Mitigation of regulatory citation risk

  • Reduced case scheduling constraints

By simply providing us with a few standard reports on your instrument tray usage and count sheet data, we can provide you with a no-cost virtual analysis report, detailing:

  • Alignment of high usage instrument trays to ‘best practice’ standard

  • Expected reduction per tray categorized by instrument type

  • ROI projection based on instrument re-purchase and processing cost savings

We hope that we can work alongside you during this time to optimize surgical services processes, so that once we are all on the other side of this crisis our systems are functioning at the highest levels of quality and fiscal responsibility that the healthcare industry has ever seen.

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