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OR Black Box®
OR Black Box®

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QGenda
QGenda

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Description

Product Description:

The OR Black Box is an innovative AI-driven platform designed to revolutionize surgical environments by addressing critical needs in patient safety, quality improvement, skills mastery, and operational efficiency. This comprehensive solution integrates ambient technologies, data analytics, video capabilities, and artificial intelligence to provide actionable insights across the surgery department.
Key features of the OR Black Box include:
-Room State: Offers real-time analytics and predictive insights to optimize scheduling and reduce unplanned overtime.

-Surgical Safety Checklist: An auditing and benchmarking tool ensuring compliance with safety procedures at critical points during surgery.

-Case Discovery: Leverages AI to automatically detect clinical and operational outliers, enabling root cause analysis and quality improvement through video review.
-OR Explorer: Provides a growing library of surgical videos for education, research, and performance enhancement.


The platform promotes transparency, continuous improvement, and care standardization by allowing organizations to compare surgical performance and identify best practices. It streamlines surgical suite workflows, maximizes efficiency, and enhances staff satisfaction.
Developed by Surgical Safety Technologies Inc. (SST), the OR Black Box is built on research excellence through partnerships with leading hospitals. It integrates with existing systems while future-proofing organizations through an open platform for emerging innovations.
With over 80 peer-reviewed publications supporting its efficacy, the OR Black Box empowers surgical teams to systematically analyze and refine their performance, driving continuous, data-driven optimization in surgical care delivery.

About Surgical Safety Technologies:

None provided

Product Description:

QGenda is the leading provider of automated healthcare workforce management software. Since its launch in 2006, QGenda has grown to serve more than 1,200 customers in over 30 medical specialties across 5,000 hospitals. The subscription-based automated scheduling software is used by practice groups, hospitals, academic medical centers, and enterprise health systems to build optimal schedules for clinicians and medical staff to provide the best possible care. QGenda is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

About QGenda:
QGenda is the leading provider of automated healthcare workforce management software. Since its launch in 2006, QGenda has grown to serve more than 1,200 customers in over 30 medical specialties across 5,000 hospitals. The subscription-based automated scheduling software is used by practice groups, hospitals, academic medical centers, and enterprise health systems to build optimal schedules for clinicians and medical staff to provide the best possible care. QGenda is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

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Clients

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Use Cases

Description:

Quality Improvement:

-Identifying clinical and operational outliers

-Conducting root cause analysis

-Comparing surgical performance across teams or facilities

-Identifying and sharing best practices

Patient Safety Enhancement:

-Monitoring compliance with surgical safety checklists

-Detecting potential risks or safety issues in real-time

-Auditing protocol adherence

Surgical Training and Education:

-Providing a video library for learning and reference

-Facilitating peer-to-peer learning from top performers

-Supporting research initiatives and presentations

Operational Efficiency:

-Optimizing OR scheduling and utilization

-Reducing unplanned overtime

-Streamlining surgical suite workflows

Performance Evaluation and Coaching:

-Reviewing surgical procedures for skill assessment

-Facilitating targeted feedback and coaching

-Tracking individual and team performance improvements

Research and Innovation:

-Supporting clinical research with comprehensive data

-Enabling customizable projects and studies

-Facilitating the development of new surgical techniques or protocols

Compliance and Auditing:

-Ensuring adherence to safety protocols

-Providing documentation for regulatory requirements

-Benchmarking performance against industry standards

Continuous Process Improvement:

-Identifying areas for workflow optimization

-Driving data-driven decision making in surgical processes

-Supporting ongoing quality assurance efforts

Pediatric use cases:

Surgical quality improvement

Users:

Surgeons, Anesthesiologists, Surgical Nurses, Perioperative Coordinators, Directors of Periop, Surgery Schedulers, Chiefs of Operations/Finance/Nursing/Medicine/Surgery

Description:

86% of the country's health systems use QGenda

QGenda delivers the only scheduling-centric Provider Operations Platform to better manage the entire healthcare workforce and truly optimize capacity across the enterprise.

Health systems support care delivery across many departments and locations. The workforce varies from employed, affiliated groups, locums, or staffed through MSOs. Each requires different provider operations and workforce management processes.

Simplify provider operations and optimize your full workforce across the enterprise with QGenda.

QGenda enables organizations to:

Optimize capacity to deliver care

Provide better access to care by ensuring your workforce, rooms, and resources are aligned to meet patient demand.

Save time

Reduce the time it takes to credential providers, build and manage optimized schedules, match providers to patients, track time, prepare payroll, and deliver workforce reports.

Improve provider satisfaction

Improve schedule equity, visibility, and work-life balance for providers. Streamline the credentialing process to eliminate provider frustration.

Increase revenue & reduce costs

Optimize provider time and room utilization to see more patients. Reduce labor expenses on overtime, extra shifts, and locums.

Improve patient safety

Deliver real-time, centralized access to on-call schedules so that the right provider is always contacted immediately in an emergency.

Minimize errors

Deliver real-time, accurate provider schedules. Improve payroll accuracy. Streamline workforce utilization reporting. Ensure access to up-to-date provider credentials and information.

Solutions for Hospitals & Health Systems

Intelligent provider scheduling

Automated, rules-based scheduling supports the unique needs of every provider, specialty, and department across the enterprise.

Digital room scheduling & capacity management

Centralized, real-time view of room availability, equipment, and care attributes allows space sharing and improves room utilization. View and manage exam room and OR blocks, provider schedules, and patient encounter information in one platform.

On-call provider scheduling

Centralized, immediate access to up-to-date, accurate on-call schedules for all departments ensures the correct providers are available for patients immediately when emergency strikes.

Workforce analytics

View up-to-date reports and dashboards to analyze trends, staffing, and utilization across the health system.

Time tracking & compensation management

Automate and geo-verify time punches. Ensure complete and accurate payroll based on complex pay rules.

Provider credentialing

Streamline credentialing, payer enrollment, and privileging across the enterprise. Maintain up-to-date, accurate credentials, and improve access to critical provider data.

Integration with 85+ systems

Exchange critical provider operations data with systems including the EHR, HRIS, RCM, clinical communications, contracting, payroll and more. 

Pediatric use cases:

None provided

Users:
  • Baptist Health
  • Loma Linda University Health
  • Mercy Medical Group 
  • Mayo Clinic
  • Texas Tech University Medical Center

EHR Integrations

Integrations:

Acute care EMR

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Use case dependent

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Cerner

Hardware Compatibility:

Desktop, Mobile / Tablet (native app), Mobile / Tablet (web optimized)

Integrations:

Acute care EMR, Ambulatory EMR, Ancillary EMR

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

None provided

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Cerner, Meditech, athena, Athenahealth

Hardware Compatibility:

Desktop

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Differentiators

Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

AI-Driven Insights: Utilizes advanced AI and machine learning for autonomous risk detection and predictive insights, going beyond traditional EHR data tracking.

Real-Time Analytics: Provides real-time operating room analytics, allowing for immediate operational adjustments.

Customizable Annotation Framework: Offers tailored video analysis tools for center-specific needs and metrics, unlike the more rigid structures of most EHRs.

Continuous Improvement Engine: Facilitates ongoing performance optimization through comparative analytics and best practice identification.

Open Platform Architecture: Designed to integrate with existing systems and accommodate future innovations, offering more flexibility than closed EHR systems.

Surgical Safety Checklist Integration: Incorporates specialized tools for monitoring and improving surgical safety checklist compliance.

Advanced Operational Optimization: Offers predictive insights for scheduling and resource allocation, going beyond basic EHR scheduling capabilities.

Differentiators vs Competitors:

Comprehensive Video Integration: Incorporates video capabilities for surgical procedures (open, lap, robotic), enabling visual review and analysis not typically available in competing systems.

Multifaceted Approach: Addresses patient safety, quality improvement, skills mastery, and operational efficiency in a single platform.

Surgical-Specific Focus: Designed specifically for high-acuity surgical environments, offering specialized features not found in other solutions.

Research-Backed: Supported by over 80 peer-reviewed publications, demonstrating proven value and efficacy.

Automated Outlier Detection: Automatically identifies clinical and operational outliers for focused improvement efforts.

Surgical Safety Checklist Integration: Incorporates specialized tools for monitoring and improving surgical safety checklist compliance.

Surgical Safety Network: Facilitates cross-organizational collaboration and benchmarking for safety and quality initiatives. 

Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

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Differentiators vs Competitors:

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