Step 1
Simcad Health®, offers an intuitive and interactive 3D simulation environment to improve, optimize and visualize healthcare systems. From ED and OR to hospital logistics and resource planning, Simcad Health® integrates with live and historical data to provide the most effective and interactive healthcare simulation system on the market today.
The layout will be used to determine impact of travel distances, congestion, and room location on the overall flow efficiency.
Define room specialty assignments along with potential operation grouping that it can perform. A set of general guidelines needs to be defined in order to improve future optimization.
Load currently used schedules from EMR (or other systems). The data will be used to validate and improve the OR.
The model shows high utilization of the OR rooms, giving the impression that the OR department is reaching capacity. By examining the overall OR efficiency of every room, the initial results indicate that the rooms operate at a very low efficiency and contribute extensively to Non-Value-Added time. Additional capacity can be achieved by improving efficiency.
Step 2
By properly scheduling the OR and providers, a higher level of efficiency can be achieved.
(Historical Data, Schedules, shifts, providers info, and room specialties)
Room and patient schedules are run through the simulation to determine the optimum patient sequence to maximize room and resource utilization and efficiency.
Live data is incorporated into the model allowing the simulation to proactively adjust the generated schedule and maximize efficiency.
The simulation model continually updates the current and forecasted state of the OR based on live data it receives.
Step 3
Web-based Schedule Adherence dashboards are provided to quickly summarize the state of each room; whether or not it is on schedule and the schedule impact to future operations.
Detailed performance view per provider identifying the impact of delays.