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9 Ways to Increase Surgical Efficiency by Adding Digital Technologies

With so many points of the surgical workflow that are prime for an efficiency boost, we've identified nine different steps in which you can integrate digitalization. These practical applications of hospital digitalization have the potential to help you create smoother surgeries.

Scroll through the list below to learn more and download the infographic. How many of these steps have you already digitalized in your hospital?

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1Preoperative scans

Having easy access to preoperative scans is the first step to making the entire surgical process more efficient. Trade in outdated methods of transferring scans, like CDs, for healthcare IT integration. Easily access preop images in the office or directly from the operating room.

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2Surgical planning

Once you have easily accessed your patient images, you can plan the surgery with automated software, which allow surgeons to enhance images by highlighting organs at risk, outlining the tumor to be resected, planning the approach, fusing different scan modalities together and more.

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3Interdisciplinary discussions

Now it’s time to discuss the completed plan with the team. Digitalizing the review process allows interdisciplinary teams to review the case together, even remotely, with secure cloud access to patient files. Advanced digital collaboration tools like mixed reality further enhance case review.

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4Patient consultation

The team knows the plan, and now you’re ready to discuss the upcoming surgery with the patient. Help them understand their diagnosis and procedure by showing them 3D visualizations of their own anatomy and the planned surgery on screen or with spatial computing devices.

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5Before surgery begins

Having plans and patient data available in the operating room helps your entire department stay organized. With digital operating room integration, patient data can be automatically pre-fetched the night before and the patient checklist digitalized to facilitate an efficient start to surgery.

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6Surgical data setup

Now that the patient-specific data is ready in the O.R., it can be routed to best suit the preference of the surgical team. Digital data management systems in the operating room allow patient information, images and preop plans to be displayed as needed across all connected screens.

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7Digitally empowered surgery

Now, surgery can begin. There are so many digital technologies available to support surgeons and their teams intraoperatively: Surgical navigation devices and software, augmented reality microscope visualization, robotic assistance and intraoperative imaging, to name a few.

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8Postop Documentation

Surgery is now complete and it’s time to document the procedure. With a digitally integrated operating room, surgical data and documentation can be saved directly to the patient’s file automatically. Once saved, they can be accessed from anywhere through the hospital archives.

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9Patient follow-up

An ever-important step after surgery is following up with the patient. With digital technologies, you can review and discuss surgical outcomes with user friendly tools that help patients improve their understanding of the results.

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