Operating Room 4.0: IoT Enters the Management Processes of One of the Most Critical Areas in Healthcare Facilities
The operating room represents the production area of a healthcare facility, and the efficiency of patient logistics processes is a crucial element for operational management.
The initial questions to consider are:
- What information do we have from the operating room?
- Is this information reliable?
- How complete and up-to-date is this data?
From the analysis of various facilities and extensive research, it quickly becomes apparent how inadequate and often biased this information can be. It is frequently influenced more by clinical needs than by operational management needs.
Therefore, surgical and anesthesiology times are often recorded solely for the purpose of completing medical records, with inconsistencies that are easily detectable in more than 80% of the entries.
Accurate and objective measurement of times related to the surgical process is a crucial strategic tool for optimizing one of the most important departments in the entire hospital.
