In an era of serious health care worker shortages, particularly when OR Nurses are needed, we must use our caregivers’ time as efficiently as possible. When less time is devoted to bedside care and more time is spent on regulatory paperwork and compliance, recruiting and retaining experienced, caring professionals—much less attracting future health care workers—becomes difficult.

1. The Case to
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Nursing: A Precious Resource
In an era of serious health care worker shortages, particularly when OR
Nurses are needed, we must use our caregivers’ time as efficiently as
possible. For the various stages of care of a typical patient, paperwork
adds at least 30 minutes to every hour of patient care provided and, in
some settings, adds an hour of paperwork to every hour of patient care.
The burden is simply too heavy-at the expense of patient care.
http://www.aha.org/content/00-10/FinalPaperworkReport.pdf
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2. The Bill-Only paperwork pain; streamline the process in your surgery suites
Introduction:
The pain with bill-only procedures within our operating rooms and cath labs is the manual processes
required in capturing the usage and maintaining that data in our charge masters, item masters and patient
billing. We struggle with all the touch points associated with these high-end procedures and we treat
them with the respect of a slip of paper and pencil to document and capture the devices implanted.
Briefly, this white paper identifies the pain points within existing manual processes and illustrates the
advantages of streamlining all those touch points with the SimplifyOR iOS app.
The Pain Points:
Our implant write-ups get overlooked, posted late or misplaced.
Our item master costs and charge master charges are not current.
Our charge numbers posted don’t reflect the devices implanted.
Our item master pricing isn’t aligned with our contract pricing.
Our recall of usage may differ from vendor rep for the procedure.
Inaccurate usage and cost capture can lead to billing issues.
Our current processes are not aligned our EHR goals.(1)
Surgery
Write-Up
Hand-Off
Charge Nurse
New
Implant
Hand-Off
Purchasing
Hand-Off
Vendor Rep
Hand-Off
Finance
Hand-Off
Charge Nurse
Update
Patient
Charges
The Pain
The Goal
The application will aid three sets of processes:
1.Preparing for the surgery.
2.Recording and approving of consumption and costs
at the OR during the procedure.
3.Minimize dispute resolution leading to timely
issuance of P.O. and invoice.
(1) https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2015-10-16/pdf/2015-25597.pdf pg. 25-29
SimplifyOR.com
1 & Done
Technology
Item
Master
Updated
Charge
Master
Updated
Patient
Charges
Updated
Patient
Charting
Updated
Implant
Tracker
Updated

3. Thank you for your time
info@simplifyor.com
Simplify OR Inc.
Guntersville, AL
(888) 697-8599
http://simplifyor.com