The pressure to improve margins can drive healthcare leaders to cut costs by leaning harder on existing technology – especially their EHRs. For perioperative services, preserving the status quo will only save money in the short-term. Surgery is where volume volatility, staffing pressure, and clinical risk converge in the highest of stakes, and rigid legacy systems simply cause more expensive problems.
Relying on limited EHR capabilities is like painting a house with a spoon. You might find a way to accomplish the job, but it won’t be efficient and it won’t be pretty. Frustration? That part is guaranteed.
A forward-thinking, responsive organizational strategy requires the right tools to optimize your system’s workflows.
While powerful in many areas, documentation-oriented EHR platforms were not created to orchestrate complex, fast-paced environments like perioperative suites and procedure rooms. They can be solid tools for their intended purpose of recordkeeping - but when a healthcare system tries to force a square peg EHR into a round hole outside its capabilities, workflows can be disrupted, safety and throughput can be compromised, and inconsistency can reign.
The result? Not only do OR managers and system leaders lose the chance for a technological advantage, but staff can also burn out or rely on inconsistent workarounds. And you are left without the information you need to make improvements and increase revenue.
Stale analytics and month-old reports simply can’t keep up. Without visibility into real-time OR performances, gaps grow as coordination is fragmented across surgical teams, OR time and surgeon expertise are underutilized, and case volume is stagnant.
As reported by the American Medical Association, EHRs may be the tool you need for business, but delivering care is a different process. Billing and coding? Yes. Workflow? That requires a leading edge approach to capturing fresh, relevant data while improvements are still within your grasp.
Workflow tools like LiveData aren’t meant to replace your EHR, but they unlock what it can’t do alone. Our perioperative solutions are purpose-built to address the gaps EHRs leave behind — especially in surgical priorities like volume growth, OR utilization, team coordination, physician satisfaction, and patient safety.
LiveData provides the right tools for EHRs around the OR:
● Real-time workflow orchestration ensures surgical teams are aligned – from pre-op through incision to wheels-out – eliminating avoidable delays.
● Live dashboards and analytics empower perioperative leaders with near-instant visibility, not just end-of-month reports. Need to address bottlenecks and improve FCOTS? We give you the data to accomplish that.
● Patient safety is enhanced relevant cues and coordinated team awareness at every timing event. Customizable safe surgery checklists focus the surgical team on the needs of their facility. It’s often as simple as a click.
● Seamless integration with Epic, Oracle, and MEDITECH means zero disruption to your EHR and amplified value from it.
LiveData acts as a system of engagement layered over your system of record, catalyzing operational, financial, and clinical transformation right now, so you won’t be left behind. Now is the time to act with a solution that integrates rapidly, scales effortlessly, and returns value in months, not years.
The OR is not a place for passive data or delayed insight. It’s a high-stakes, revenue-driving engine, and it deserves tools that work in real time.
It's time to rethink what’s necessary for surgical growth. If you're relying solely on your EHR to manage surgical performance, then you're underutilizing both your technology and your team, and you’re undercutting your health system’s bottom line. An orchestration tool like LiveData bridges the gap.
Curious what surgical growth looks like when real-time solutions are in place? Schedule a conversation with LiveData, and explore how we help hospitals turn OR pressure into performance.