Maximizing Revenue, Growth and Cost Containment with Technology-Driven Efficiency
Performing safe and successful surgeries is the top priority for any ambulatory surgery center, but each center is also a business that needs to contain costs and minimize compliance and litigation risks while maximizing revenue and growth. However, in ambulatory surgery, there are a number of factors that can get in the way of optimal financial and business performance.
Costs will always be an issue if they can’t be reduced through better operational efficiency and visibility. You can’t manage what you can’t see or track, and if you’re using manual and paper-based processes or not capitalizing on the best opportunities for automation and digitization, it’s a productivity and efficiency killer every time.
Regulatory compliance is also a big challenge, but it gets worse if clinical staff are bogged down and can’t easily maintain proper documentation or follow best practices to ensure patient safety and minimize errors and risks. This also increases the risk of expensive and potentially catastrophic litigation.
Hiring and retaining surgeons and other clinical staff can also be big headaches, especially when the challenges of serving patients and navigating a complex healthcare system are compounded by workplace inefficiency and a lack of the technologies and resources that surgeons and staff need to excel and make their jobs easier.
Surgery centers are always looking to perform more same-day surgeries and boost revenue, but every bit of inefficiency can add up to frustrating delays and limitations, whether it’s coming from a slowdown in patient check-ins, an inability to access patient information and records quickly enough, or not having the right inventory on hand.
Additionally, many surgery centers have potential opportunities to grow, but not at the cost of expanding their physical footprint, leasing more space, or building new facilities. Ideal growth comes from being able to increase throughput and both surgical and patient volumes within the same physical space and without sacrificing time with patients or care quality.
Fortunately, with the rapid adoption, expansion and evolution of healthcare mobility, digitization, and automation technologies over the past 20 years, it’s easier and more affordable than ever to address all of these needs and issues.
Through manageable and affordable investments in proven technologies with a high return on investment, there are many ways to optimize ambulatory surgery centers for better operational and financial performance.
From patient intake to the operating room, recovery, and discharge, there are virtually limitless opportunities to streamline, digitize, automate, and connect all the workflows, interactions, assets and people that can maximize surgery center success.
Each center needs a unique solution and the right plan, support and services to get the most out of its technology investment and enable true organizational transformation. But when the right technology is applied and implemented with the consultation, services and expertise, it enables better patient safety, efficiency, and overall surgery center performance.
Through automation, digitization, and smart technology strategies, centers of all sizes, from small local clinics to major regional operations, can achieve remarkable gains in their ability to work efficiently, cost-effectively, and safely. It all starts with a few simple but dramatically impactful moves to automate data capture, enable seamless clinical mobility, as well as better inventory management, and create digitized and superior patient experiences.
With end-to-end management of Zebra mobile ambulatory surgery centers solutions from Stratix, your employees will thank you and their productivity will increase, along with your bottom line. Watch how Stratix and Zebra work together to power today's Ambulatory Surgery Centers.
About Stratix
Wherever your organization is in its mobile-first journey, you don't have to go it alone. Stratix has led from the front on mobility for nearly four decades. We can help you design and deliver end-to-end mobile technology solutions that make your organization's mobility convenient, easy, and cost-effective. We execute deployments at scale and with precision, so they work in the hands of your end users out-of-the-box. Once devices are in service, we provide ongoing world-class managed services and visibility tools that ensure nonstop mobility throughout their lifecycle. For additional information, visit www.stratixcorp.com
About Zebra
Zebra (NASDAQ: ZBRA) empowers the front line in retail/ecommerce, manufacturing, transportation and logistics, healthcare, public sector and other industries to achieve a performance edge. With more than 10,000 partners across 100 countries, we deliver industry-tailored, end-to-end solutions to enable every asset and worker to be visible, connected and fully optimized. Our market-leading solutions elevate the shopping experience, track and manage inventory as well as improve supply chain efficiency and patient care. In 2020, Zebra made Forbes Global 2000 list for the second consecutive year and was listed among Fast Company’s Best Companies for Innovators. For more information, visit www.zebra.com
