Operations Research for Surgical Services

Thursday, September 29, 2022, 8:00 AM - Sunday, October 2, 2022, 7:00 PM, Online, Iowa City, IA

Teams solve cases to solve operating room management problems: • Monitoring operational and financial performance of surgical suites and anesthesia groups (“descriptive analytics”), • Forecasting case durations, time remaining in cases, use of staffed OR time (“predictive analytics”), • Applying principles of operations research to make common decisions, such as staffing levels, block time planning, case scheduling and assignment, financial management, and strategic planning (“prescriptive analytics”), • Identifying in-house expertise to aid in problem-solving and determining whether outside consultants are needed, • Evaluating current decision-support systems.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (35.00 hours)

1. Each of the 45 objectives listed on pages 628-631 of Wachtel & Dexter 2010.
2. Explain each of the vocabulary terms on page 1468 of Wachtel & Dexter 2013.

The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

 

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.