Operating Theatre Scheduling
Let us solve your most difficult operating theatre scheduling problems and achieve more via automation.
Over 10% increase in theatre utilisation and serve more patients
Shorten the time to critical care by over 30%
Improve hospital compliance with government KPIs
Optimal Operating Theatre Scheduling
Providing high quality health care is a key objective of governments around the world, including Australia. However, budgets are limited and so health care providers need to do more with less.
One key aspect of that is the optimal allocation of resources across a hospital to better serve patients, in particular the booking of outpatients into operating theatres – operating theatre scheduling.
Recent developments have made this theoretical possibility a reality. We are now able to answer the question:
What are the optimal allocation of patients to operation plans and theatres to ensure maximum throughput and maximum productivity of facilities and staff?
Automated Operating Room Scheduling
Biarri’s tool replicates the elective waitlist scheduling process and produces higher quality operating theatre schedules using mathematical optimisation techniques.
Method
Biarri’s operating room scheduling algorithm captures the following clinical information and optimises for them:
- Clinical Priority Codes
- Patient Due Dates
- Pre-, Intra- and Post-Opt Time
- 4, 8 and 12 Week Schedule
- Surgeon Time Slots
- Post-Operative Bed Availability
- Buffers for uncertainty
What customers have to say
We found Biarri a pleasure to work with. They were engaged, helpful and responsive in understanding the … needs of our department. The entire process from development to operation was collaborative and professional.
How does it work?
The Automated Theatre Booking Tool takes data from a number of common data sources that a hospital can access locally or from other easily accessible data sources (e.g. historical operation times).
These data sources are combined via a pipeline developed specific to the hospital using a number of Biarri’s data processing tools.
This prepared data is then input into the Automated Theatre Booking Tool which can then be run overnight to produce new daily operating theatre lists.
These lists are then examined by the booking clerks and entered into the booking system. Suggested surgical slots which are not chosen are then recreated the next time the engine is run.
The tool is able to provide outputs in a variety of formats such as Excel, CSV, TSV, etc. as well as via APIs allowing easy integration into existing tools.
Outputs can also be both created automatically (e.g. for the start of the booking shift) or on demand when required to test different scenarios to model future changes
Based on cutting edge research
Biarri has pioneered recent algorithmic breakthroughs that now allow:
- Tools to be able to handle schedules with 4000+ patients, 40+ surgeons, 10+ ORs over 8+ week horizon with unprecedented speed while still accounting for specific patient needs and surgeon capabilities.
- Potential increases for operating room throughput of up to 30% and reductions of surgery costs by up to 40% compared with current best practices.
- Rapid algorithmic run times of 20 seconds for theoretically optimal solutions.
These tools are part of a suite of AI tools driving digital transformation.
Improve objectivity of scheduling and non-clinical booking decisions
Minimise percentage of patients required to be outsourced
