Surgical staff shortages remain a persistent pain point for most healthcare providers, contributing to a projected global shortage of 10 million healthcare workers in the next five years.1 Health providers have invested in a wealth of new tech to make surgery safer and smarter, but without the personnel needed to make use of it, the return on these advancements is limited. When surgical operating rooms (ORs) are underutilized, revenue potential decreases along with the ability to provide surgical care.
To address this glaring need, Caresyntax has developed the Data-Driven Surgical Intelligence Platform, a vendor-neutral, enterprise-scale platform that utilizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) to provide point-of-care guidance to the entire OR team.
An Ongoing, Costly, Challenge
As ORs are the primary source of revenue for any hospital, the impact of staff shortages in surgical care is a system-wide concern with financial and clinical implications. Health providers who combat these shortages by hiring new staff or employing traveling technicians and nurses are then faced with the challenges of onboarding critically needed personnel as time-efficiently as possible. This onboarding process is made more complex by the wide variation in equipment, individual preferences, and workflow differences among surgical teams, providers, and even locations.
Utilizing AI in the OR
To maintain high OR utilization without compromising quality of care, hospitals need an effective and scalable solution to address staffing shortages. Thanks to its advanced technology, Caresyntax is uniquely positioned to deliver AI both at the edge and in the cloud, enabling real-time support during surgery and driving insights across the entire surgical care continuum.
Turn-by-Turn Guidance
Specifically to address staffing shortages, Caresyntax employs AI to deliver Turn-by-Turn guidance for rapid onboarding, skill building, and consistency in surgical performance. As the name implies, turn-by-turn displays real-time point-of-care guidance for the task being performed, from, including:
- Required materials and instruments
- Preoperative setup recommendations
- Contextual step-by-step instructions
- Real-time surgeon preferences
Essential knowledge is provided at each stage equipping nurses and clinicians with the knowledge they need to confidently support the surgical procedure.
Caresyntax’s Data-Driven Surgical Intelligence Platform gives hospitals a new way to tackle the operational and clinical challenges caused by surgical staff shortages. By providing turn-by-turn guidance and delivering personalized surgical preferences, teams can perform consistent, high-quality care, despite fluctuating personnel. It is yet another example of how Caresyntax is revolutionizing surgery to be safer, smarter, and scalable.
