Institute for Healthcare Optimization
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IHO is a not-for-profit research, education & service organization focused on bringing the science and practice of operations management to healthcare delivery.
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Could this mathematician’s formula fix US hospitals? omny.fm/shows/an-arm-a…
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Could this mathematician’s formula fix US hospitals? - An Arm and a...
The annual US healthcare cost has reached $4.9 trillion - about 30% of which is wasted. What are we getting for this investment? Increasing mortality, overcrowded EDs, nursing shortages... Is there a way out? wsj.com/opinion/a-simp…
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Opinion | A Simple Way to Save Lives and Money
Better hospital scheduling could reduce overall healthcare costs by $200 billion a year.
Everyone has a lot to say in complaint of US healthcare delivery. Not many have practically proven remedies to offer. thehill.com/opinion/491873…
Is your ED overcrowded? Are you experiencing a nursing shortage? Are your surgeons unhappy about waiting for ORs? Are you approaching the red ink? Don't spend a penny until you visit ihoptimize.org.
Healthcare delivery is failing. A new book provides a roadmap to the solution implemented by pioneering hospitals, alleviating high costs, ED overcrowding, nursing shortage, surgical backlog, and healthcare inequity in the US, Canada, and UK: lnkd.in/eep2wWFB
The next step in COVID-care is NON-COVID care. Need to direct the same resolve and resources to clear the backlog of surgical patients waiting. @UHN @AATSHQ @UHN_Surgery
Ottawa spent $300-million to purchase mobile hospitals. They're sitting in storage while #Omicron strains Canada’s health system, by @RobertFife @stevenchase theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic… via @globeandmail #COVID19 #cdnpoli #cdnhealth
Hospitals are already busy and crowded. Now they're facing another COVID surge. "That's as bad as I've ever seen it," @EricDicksonCEO told me bostonglobe.com/2021/12/02/met… via @BostonGlobe
‘We ran out of ICU beds today’: Hospitals stagger under strain as COVID-19 cases reach highest level since winter bostonglobe.com/2021/12/02/met… via @BostonGlobe
Harvey Fineberg, long-time leader in US public health & science policy, has written a powerful essay on pandemics, COVID-19, science and science policy. Worth a read here: bit.ly/3xhG6FT.
Government pressure on surgeons to work harder to reduce waiting lists, against a background of bed shortages and a lack of support staff, could lead to an exodus from the profession, the president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England has warned ow.ly/OZvb50GLzag
Not surprisingly, nurse shortage became a burning issue around the globe. The surprising fact, however, is that we still do not use this scarce resource frugally: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…
"The easing of the pandemic may not help much. The shortage of nurses is longstanding and in the wake of a public health crisis that prompted 29% of health care workers to consider leaving the profession, many expect a wave of retirements." #CareCantWait nytimes.com/2021/06/04/hea…
A beginner's guide to surgical smoothing: Variations in hospital occupancy have long impeded patient safety & hospital efficiency. During a peak, beds are full, wait times increase, ambulances are diverted, errors are more likely, and overtime pay is required. (1/6)
"Surgical smoothing (SS)," pioneered by Dr. Eugene Litvak of the IHO, seeks to eliminate this pattern by dispersing elective procedures evenly across the week. Currently, most procedures are performed early in the week to accommodate surgeons' scheduling preferences. (4/6)
Dr. Erin Kane interviews patient flow experts Dr. Eugene Litvak, Dr. Peter Viccellio, and Hallie Kreul on the topic of the post-COVID surgical backlog and inpatient capacity in a new Urgent Matters podcast. smhs.gwu.edu/urgentmatters/… #patientflow #postcovid
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Urgent Matters helps create and share a variety of different podcasts covering topics from Education to Disaster Medicine on their podcasts.
ICYMI: Experts from #GWSMHS, @GWpublichealth, and more discussed the university's #COVID19 #vaccine requirement, the health and safety of the vaccine, and campus health topics in a virtual forum. Watch more: bit.ly/3pHtl3P
The new article "How hospitals can save lives and themselves: lessons on patient flow from the COVID-19 Pandemic" has been published by the Annals of Surgery: journals.lww.com/annalsofsurger… #surgericalbacklog #nursestaffing #patientsafety
NEW—More nurses lead to fewer patient deaths and readmissions, shorter hospital stays, and cost-savings for hospitals, suggests study of recent Australian state policy to introduce a minimum ratio of one nurse to four patients for day shifts. Read hubs.li/H0N74zl0.
Effects of nurse-to-patient ratio legislation on nurse staffing and patient mortality, readmissions, and length of stay: a prospective study in a panel of hospitals thelancet.com/journals/lance…
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