June 9, 2022 – LeanTaaS, Inc., a leading Silicon Valley-based technology innovator that transforms core processes to improve patient access and operational performance, announced new enhancements to its iQueue products for operating rooms, infusion centers, and inpatient beds. With innovation and customer feedback at the forefront, LeanTaaS is releasing new enhancements to help providers manage critical resources smoothly, efficiently, and according to cutting-edge lean principles. Product enhancements include:
New iQueue for Operating Rooms Features:
- Staffing support through “Future Volume Predictions”: LeanTaaS has launched a new feature that allows a nurse manager or an anesthesia staff leader to peek into future case volume as far as four weeks out. With the nationwide nursing and anesthesia workforce shortage, every OR must prioritize matching the right staff resources with demand. Waiting until the last minute to make staff changes leads to decreased staff satisfaction, decreased OR productivity, and even cancellations or rescheduled surgeries.
- Predicting unfilled blocks to increase access to OR time: iQueue for Operating Rooms features a new tool allowing OR schedulers to predict with 99% confidence how many blocks are likely to be unfilled, up to 21 days in advance. It provides early access to auto-release time, which is valuable because OR time that is released sooner is filled at a much higher rate. According to LeanTaaS customers, OR time released at 21 days is filled at 40-50% and time released at 5 days is filled at just 12%.
- Automation through “In App Messaging”: This feature is intended to eliminate phone calls and faxes in the OR scheduling process. ORs and clinics waste 20% of their time using a combination of email, phone, fax, and messenger services to coordinate around a case. iQueue for OR solves this problem by building a robust and HIPAA compliant digital workflow for case communication. Significantly, all of the messages in iQueue will be permanently attached to each single surgical case so that months or years down the line these messages can be accessed for review.
New iQueue for Infusion Centers Feature:
- Optimizing nursing resource utilization through “Nurse Pull”: This new capability combines process optimization of clinical operations with advanced algorithms to help infusion centers transition from a “push” method of assigning nurses to a pull method. This is especially critical as infusion centers across the country are desperately trying to determine how to best optimize their available nursing capacity and retain nurses while facing a historic nursing shortage and nurse burnout. This feature is planned for general availability by year-end.
New iQueue for Inpatient Beds Feature:
- Improved LOS through accurate “Patient Level Discharge Predictions’: This feature improves the accuracy of the likelihood of discharges patient by patient and unit by unit in an acute inpatient setting. This enables nursing leaders and frontline staff to make data-driven throughput decisions. iQueue achieved a 95% accuracy rate for patient level discharge predictions in recent customer evaluations. This level of accuracy increases decision-making confidence, ensuring patients will be discharged on time and able to go home sooner, while also providing open beds to patients who need to be admitted, thus significantly reducing boarding and diversions.