Results from OpFlow project presented at 2021 ACS Clinical Congress

OpFlow is proud to have been included among the presentations this past weekend at the American College of Surgeons 2021 Clinical Congress. This study reported results on a 12-month project at a hospital with a surgical volume of ~35,000 cases per year.

Across all 10 major surgical service lines, the hospital was able to reduce excess instrumentation by 38.0% by implementing OpFlow. This amounted to a total reduction of 17,657 instruments from circulation that could be re-allocated and used as inventory. Moreover, that resulted in 743,283 fewer instruments that needed to be processed each year.

There was an instrument re-purchase cost avoidance of $1,235,954 and a reduction in sterile processing expense of $800,603 per year. The removal of instruments was also projected to save 3,513 hours of sterile processing labor annually.

Thank you to the hospital and the American College of Surgeons for the opportunity to present this work demonstrating the meaningful change that is possible with instrument tray optimization!