OR Manager - July 2019 - 1

JULY
2019
Volume 35
Number 7
The monthly publication for OR decision makers
IN THIS ISSUE
NEW!
Moab Healthcare:
Bridging the OR and
SPD Resource Gap
See page 13
OR Manager Conference
Emotional intelligence: A 'must'
for outstanding leadership 6
Special series:
Artificial intelligence
New technology tracks blood
loss, reduces transfusions 10
Special series:
Artificial intelligence
Interactive surgical playbook
expands OR team synergy 12
OR business
Staff input enriches labor
benchmarking data
Success Stories
Gain and sustain staff
satisfaction through trust
and respect
25
Ambulatory Surgery Centers
Hats on! How ASC administrators
manage multiple roles
28
21
Legal and ethical questions temper
SPECIAL SERIES
excitement about AI-Part 1
A
s part of a special series on artificial
intelligence (AI), OR Manager
is taking a deep dive into
the many facets of this new technology
and its impact on patient care. Part 1
and Part 2 of the introduction to AI (May
2019 and June 2019) defined types
of AI and described its many current
and potential surgical applications. The
series has also presented examples of
AI in practice: the OR Black Box® (June
2019) as well as an interactive surgical
playbook and a system for quantifying
blood loss (see articles in this issue on
pages 10 and 12). In part 1 of a twopart
article, we examine legal and ethical
challenges related to AI.
Artificial intelligence will likely have
a dramatic impact on healthcare, including
surgery, but the nature of that
impact depends on how challenges
are addressed. Data management and
Continued on page 4
Performance improvement
Partner with IT to produce the
highest quality data
" What we have right now, quite frankly,
in healthcare are islands-visible islands
of excellence in a sea of invisible failures,
with risk lurking just below the waterline.
We need to widen those islands
of excellence. We need to connect these
islands with more dry land. We need
to address these areas of risk. That is
going to require transparency, it's going
to require data, it's going to require personal
story telling, and it's going to require
effective use of health IT. "
T
hese words were written not by
a healthcare strategist or information
technology (IT) expert but
by retired airline pilot Chesley Burnett
" Sully " Sullenberger, who, on January
15, 2009, landed US Airways Flight
1549 in the Hudson River after a bird
strike disabled both engines. All 155
people on the plane survived.
Sullenberger is now a lecturer on the
importance of aviation and patient safety.
Safety in aviation has often been
compared with safety in healthcare,
but nowhere are there more similarities
between the airlines and healthcare
than in the OR. And nowhere are there
more islands of data, processes, and
personnel that need to be connected,
Continued on page 17
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