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OR Black Box - Model RoomState - AI-driven Operating Room Efficiency Tool
Room State, a module of the OR Black Box, utilizes AI to enhance operating room efficiency by automating the documentation of surgical events and optimizing room capacity. The system captures key milestones such as anesthesia start-stop times and other critical events, integrating data directly into electronic health records without manual input. This reduces the administrative burden on staff and enhances workflow by offering real-time visibility of each surgical suite. Beyond automated documentation, Room State optimizes scheduling through predictive analytics, enabling improved throughput and minimized idle times, which in turn increases surgical volume capacity without needing additional infrastructure. This capability not only maximizes revenue potential but also aligns staff, reducing overtime and burnout, ensuring clinicians can focus on patient care. Additionally, its mobile app empowers staff with up-to-date schedules, allowing dynamic adjustments to accommodate demand, enhancing overall satisfaction among healthcare providers and patients.
Return on investment with Room State
Improving operating room management has a direct impact on your bottom line. Room State has been proven to achieve tangible results such as:
- Reduced overtime, turnover time, and idle time
- Reduced rooms required
- Increased case volume capacity
- Fewer rescheduled cases
- Enhanced revenue generation
- Optimized block utilization
- Eliminated manual milestone documentation
- Reduced staff turnover
- Improved nursing workflow efficiency
- Improved on-time case-start percentages
- Fewer case cancellations
- Increased staff, physician, and patient satisfaction
The most powerful tool to enhance operating room efficiency and profitability
Gaining visibility into the status of every operating room (OR) is often a manual, time-consuming process fraught with subjectivity that puts resources and revenue at risk. Manual documentation of surgical milestones further burdens nursing staff and delays critical workflow decisions.
The OR Black Box module, Room State™, combines the power of real-time visibility with unmatched predictive analytics to optimize case schedules, improve throughput, increase capacity for additional cases, and maximize revenue generation while enhancing satisfaction among surgeons, staff, and patients.
Real-time visibility with automated documentation
Room State leverages image capture to provide a real-time, objective view of each surgical suite without the need for manual inputs or communications. AI-powered milestone detection automatically captures and documents critical surgical events directly into your EHR – including wheels-in/wheels-out, anesthesia start-stop, and procedure start-stop times, eliminating administrative burden on nursing staff.
Increased OR capacity and revenue generation
By reducing idle time, minimizing delays, and optimizing turnover, Room State creates capacity for additional cases without requiring new infrastructure investment. This enhanced efficiency translates directly to increased surgical volume and revenue opportunities. Organizations can maximize their existing OR footprint while accommodating growing surgical demand and improving their bottom line.
Optimized scheduling
Room State analyzes current case milestones to deliver accurate predictions and crucial scheduling suggestions that optimize operating room efficiency and enable dynamic capacity planning for maximum revenue potential.
Improved throughput
Room State automatically alerts staff about key events and suggested schedule changes to minimize delays, maximize utilization, and improve throughput while creating opportunities for additional case scheduling.
Enhanced staff satisfaction and clinical focus
Room State improves the accuracy of case duration scheduling while eliminating manual documentation tasks - decreasing overtime, reducing burnout, ensuring efficient use of clinician and staff time, and allowing nurses to work at the top of their license focused on direct patient care.
On-the-go access
The Room State mobile app delivers the most up-to-date surgical schedule to busy providers, with real-time updates, predictive insights, and live room visuals. It ensures that every team member stays aligned, prepared, and proactive, without relying on hallway conversations or constant verbal or text communications.
The OR Black Box® provides surgical leaders with Room State™ – an AI-driven, OR efficiency tool to bolster operating room management while maximizing capacity and revenue potential.