Workflow Automation and Intelligent Control

Impact of Digital Supported Process Workflow Optimization for Hip Joint Endoprosthesis Implantation on Hospital-Specific Process and Quality Ratios

“…Standardized and high-quality principles of process management support hospitals in achieving their cost and profitability targets and additionally in meeting the documentation requirements of health insurances (Zapp et al, 2011;Kuy and Romero, 2017;Souders et al, 2017). Surgery processes offer particular standardization and optimization potentials: the establishment of quality and process standards reduces failure quotas and run through times and, in effect, operating room capacity utilization (Boos and Goldschmidt, 2000;Abollado et al, 2017;Carvajal et al, 2018). Such rationalization saves staff expenses per patient, frees capacity for new surgery jobs, and at the same time enhances patient care: Short anesthetic and surgery times reduce complication quotas and fatalities.…”