Health Insights Events

Optimize Surgery Capacity and Reduce Costs

[WEBINAR]

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021

As hospitals and healthcare systems return to normal operations post the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders will be challenged to optimize the use of their surgical suites.  The high volume of case cancellations and patients postponing elective procedures has resulted in an increased demand for surgical time while Surgery Departments are facing tremendous pressure to reduce their operating costs.  During this session, HealthInsights.ai and TIBCO will host a team of client panelists that are using advanced surgical analytics powered by Spotfire.   Specific discussions topics will include:

·         Improving block utilization through robust analytics not available in an electronic health record, data science to forecast block utilization, and workflows to enable block release

·         Optimizing capacity by improving on-time starts and scheduling accuracy

·         Using both internal and external comparative benchmarks to identify best practices, reduce variations in supply use, and set achievable performance goals.

Panelists will also identify additional key performance measures and analytics views that are enabling them to effectively manage the surgical department and share their outcomes including recapturing block time valued at over $4 million per year and reducing supply costs by over $600,000 per year.

MEET THE SPEAKERS

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Sean Fitzpatrick

Senior Business Analyst, Surgical Services - St. Joseph’s Health, a member of Trinity Health

Sean Fitzpatrick is a Senior Business Analyst at St. Joseph's Health in Syracuse, NY.  In this role, he supports the full spectrum of perioperative services with analysis collaborating with leadership on all growth, cost reduction and optimization initiatives.

 Sean earned his bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from Siena College and his Master’s of Science degree in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from SUNY Albany. Prior to joining St. Joseph's Health, he had experience in pharmaceutical and public health analysis.

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Stephanie McKoin

Director of Perioperative Services and Surgery IPN, Roper St. Francis Healthcare

 Stephanie McKoin, is the Director of Perioperative Services and the Surgery IPN at Roper St. Francis in Charleston, SC. In this role, she is responsible for perioperative services across the health system that performs more than 30,000 surgical procedures a year. Her departments include forty-six operating rooms, endoscopy, pre and post anesthesia care units, ambulatory care units, and central sterile processing departments at four hospitals and three surgery centers.

 Stephanie has extensive clinical and administrative experience in tertiary medical centers, perioperative, surgical and anesthesia services. In her more than 30-year career, she has held various executive roles in perioperative, surgical and anesthesia services at complex health systems including Penn Medicine, WellSpan Health, Catholic Health Initiatives, and Kaiser Permanente.

 Stephanie is a member of the Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses and actively involved in their AORN Executive Roundtable.

 She earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from San Jose State University and a Master’s in Public Administration, Health Services Administration from the University of San Francisco.

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Denise Johnson

Director of Healthcare Practice, HealthInsights.ai

 Denise Johnson is the Director of the healthcare practice at HealthInsights.ai and provides leadership for our analyst team as we develop custom applications using contemporary business intelligence tools.  

Denise has over 30 years of experience within the healthcare industry in Decision Support, Information Technology, and Analytics.  Denise holds a Bachelor of Science Cum Laude in Industrial Engineering, a Master’s degree in Business Administration, a Master’s certificate in Medical Informatics, and is a certified Spotfire analyst.

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[Moderator]

Shikha Kashyap

Chief Executive Officer, HealthInsights.ai

 Shikha Kashyap Bhatnagar is founder and CEO of HealthInsights, a health analytics company that was launched in January 2021. HealthInsights.ai provides data analytics solutions and services that are tailored for providers, payors, and accountable care organizations in the healthcare industry. Under her leadership and a very capable team, has over quarter million lives on its SaaS platform.

 Before taking on as CEO of HealthInsights, Shikha co-founded and was the CTO of Syntelli Solutions Inc. She still wears the CTO hat for Syntelli Solutions and is responsible for client’s enterprise architecture decisions, technology trends, as well as building out technology delivery team.

 Shikha believes in data for social good and has been involved with multiple data hackathons on human trafficking and economic mobility. She is also on board for School Data Science, UNC Charlotte as well as she co-chairs SIM Women Charlotte chapter a professional organization of senior local IT leaders.