505 - What Happens in the OR Shouldn’t Stay in the OR: AI That Helps Your Whole Hospital Know It Now and Know It’s Right

• Presenters: David Owen and Jeffrey Oliver
• Organization: LiveData
• Scheduled: Friday May 22 at 10:20 am

MEDITECH knows it all. As the system of record, it stores surgical history with precision and compliance. But the OR is the nexus of hospital revenue and risk - and knowing it all is not the same as knowing it now, or knowing it’s right.

When a scheduled case runs long, the cascade is immediate. The rest of the day’s cases get pushed and surgeons complain. Anesthesia, SPD, patient units, and environmental services fall behind. Leadership asks why first case delays spiked this week, and pressures Informatics to build a report.

Know It Now. Know It’s Right. That is the gap LiveData was built to fill - and the value IT can bring to the department that drives the most revenue in the hospital. Through best-in-class display boards and AI-powered analytics, LiveData will extend your MEDITECH Expanse investment, not replace it, across three integrated layers.

1. Know It’s Right with OR-Dashboard, using a one-touch Clicker that captures surgical documentation in real time at the point of care.
2. Know It Now with real-time schedule boards that keep anesthesia, imaging, patient units, and families in sync.
3. Know it Now using LiveData Insights, with secure AI-powered chat that lets OR leaders ask conversational questions of their own operational data like, “Which surgeons have improved or declined in block utilization compared to this time last year, and by how much?”.

Results: OR delays reduced by 25%. Impactful workflow transformation, without the need for an onsite integration server. Staff are satisfied without a call to IT for another report or drilldown, based on data validated across 2M+ surgical cases at 100+ hospital systems. You’ll leave this showcase with both the technical confidence and business language to share transformative possibilities with hospital leadership.

Learning objectives:

• Describe how Live Capture, Live Distribution, and Live Intelligence together give every department that depends on surgery - and the families who wait - the ability to Know It Now, while giving OR leadership AI answers they can trust because the data architecture supporting them is accurate.
• Build a low-risk, no-new-server path implementation model for verified perioperative AI, including language to make the case to clinical and financial leadership.
• Draw on Sauk Prairie Healthcare’s recent experience to explain the information architecture for extracting more perioperative reporting from MEDITECH Expanse.

About the presenters:

Jeffrey Oliver, Lt Col, Ret., CCNS, CNOR has over 30 years of nursing experience and has served in a variety of nursing roles throughout his career. He was commissioned in the United States Air Force in 1995. He was deployed three times during his twenty-five-year career. Jeff was assigned as faculty at the Uniformed Services University Graduate School of Nursing and served as the Perioperative Nursing Consultant to the Air Force Surgeon General before retiring from the Air Force in March 2021. Jeff then served as the Director of Surgical Services at a community hospital in South Carolina before joining LiveData as a Clinical Support Specialist.

David Owen, Chief Product Officer, leads LiveData’s product strategy and innovation initiatives, driving the company’s mission to improve patient safety and operating room efficiency through intelligent workflow solutions. With deep expertise in healthcare technology and artificial intelligence, David is building a product culture centered on continuous learning and customer value. When he’s not advancing LiveData’s mission, David can often be found racing sailboats on Boston Harbor.