Health First, FL
Situation
Health First is a not-for-profit, multi-facility hospital system that offers a range of surgical services. It supports 28 operating rooms that complete over 35,000 surgeries a year.
Challenge
Health First’s paper-based management systems were failing to keep up with its increasingly busy surgical suite. It suffered from inefficiencies, under-performance and a lack of standardized procedures across its operating rooms.
Solution
Health First turned to SIS for help redesigning the workflow of its surgery department. It then automated its processes with a SIS COMPREHENSIVE solution which completely integrated its administrative and clinical processes.
Impact
- Achieved annual surgical suite savings of $800,000.
- Increased on-time first case starts from 50% to 83%.
- Improved compliance as documentation of pain management discharge instructions increased from zero percent to 83%.
- Enhanced the overall quality of patient care.
- Improved operational efficiency.
- Eliminated transcription errors.
- With a reduction in paper-based communications, significantly improved workflow and preference card management.
