This document describes an operating room dashboard that provides metrics and key performance indicators to assess operating room efficiency. The dashboard allows users to view overall performance trends over time as well as drill down into specific details by department, surgeon, or operating room. It addresses questions about on-time starts and finishes, room utilization, throughput times, and compliance with safety and infection control protocols. The dashboard is part of a business intelligence software suite that helps healthcare organizations improve patient care, costs, and operations through data-driven insights.

1. DATASHEET
Is your operating room a major profit center
or a substantial drain on your budget?
Which surgeons cost the most during
surgery? Where are the bottlenecks? With
the KnowledgeEdge™ Operating Room
dashboard, you can assess operating room
efficiency at a glance and drill down to
the details that matter, both to the care
you provide and to your bottom line.
Built using HCD’s enterprise data model, the
Operating Room dashboard charts operating
room performance metrics over time so
staff and leadership can address issues
proactively instead of reacting once problems
get out of hand. The dashboard covers a
broad range of indicators, from operating
room throughput to infection control.
Each metric can be viewed as part of a
total picture, or brought into focus to
identify your star performers and your
problem areas.
Dashboard Value
The Operating Room dashboard
answers your key questions about
OR performance, including:
• How many cases start on time?
How many finish on time? Are
certain departments or surgeons
consistently running late?
• How quickly do things proceed
inside the operating room? What
is the average time from room
entry to incision, and from
anesthesia to incision? Do certain
procedures need improvement?
• Are your operating rooms being
utilized efficiently? How many
hours are they used, and what
is the room turn-around time?
• What are the compliance rates
for antibiotic administration, hair
removal and incision site prep?
Do particular departments or
surgeons need to betteraddress
these infection control measures?
• Are site verification and wrist
band checks being performed
consistently? Where can
the organization improve
patient safety?
OPERATING ROOM DASHBOARD
View of the operational statistics tab in the OR dashboard
For example, the OR dashboard
includes an Operational Statistics
tab that displays overall
performance based on a variety of
metrics, such as on-time starts, patient
entry to anesthesia ready and surgery
complete to patient exit from OR.
From that overview, you can drill down
into the data by hospital and specific
OR, so you can take appropriate
action to improve OR patient care,
throughput and cost effectiveness.
Health Care DataWorks, Inc., a leading provider of business intelligence solutions, empowers healthcare organizations to improve their quality of care and reduce
costs. Through its pioneering KnowledgeEdge™ product suite, including its enterprise data model, analytic dashboards, applications, and reports, HCD delivers
an Enterprise Data Warehouse necessary for hospitals and health systems to effectively and efficiently gain deeper insights into their operations.
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