For Five Consecutive Years, the American College of Healthcare Executives Has Ranked Workforce Shortages as its #1 Top Concern Among U.S. Hospital CEOs
The U.S. Faces a 500K Registered Nurses (RNs) Shortage Today — Projected to Reach 1.3 Million by 2032
According to the National Center for Health Workforce Analysis in a 2017 report,the number of registered nurses needed in the United States is estimated to skyrocket by 28.4%
Over One-Third of Nurses’ Time Is Spent on Tasks That Don’t Require Their Skills
Diverted from Caregiving, Nurses Spend 40% of Their Time on Repetitive Administrative and Logistical Tasks — A Major Source of Frustration and Burnout
These essential yet labor-intensive duties are not only time-consuming but also highly error-prone, contributing to RNs burnout and retention challenges—driving 36% to 40% of nurses annually to seek alternative career paths outside the profession
Managing Every Detail in the OR Is a Sisyphean Task of Endless Manual Work —
One That Perioperative Nurses Are Burdened to Carry
Despite being the heart of surgical care, today’s ORs remain burdened by outdated workflows — with up to 95% of tasks still performed manually. Excessive instrument preparation, lack of real-time data, and inefficient documentation lead to prolonged delays, frequent turnover issues, and critical strain on perioperative teams. Managing every detail across pre-, intra-, and post-operative phases is an immense and relentless task.
The Heavy Workload's Impact on OR Nurses' Quality of Life as well as on Patient Safety
What Could Possibly Go Wrong in the Operating Room?
Acknowledging the vast array of potential issues in operating rooms is a key factor in understanding the critical need for an innovative, efficient, and sustainable ecosystem, aiming to modernize these environments to reduce clinical workforce-related burden, improve surgical outcomes, and impact patient safety significantly
Healthcare Quality Issues & Patient Safety Are a Major Concern
Surgical Procedure Risks
Retained Surgical Objects:
A Critical Oversight
Unnecessary Extended Anesthesia:
Potential Complications
Elevated Infection Risk:
A Concern for Patient Safety
Instrument and Inventory Management
Instrument Oversight:
Missing/Untracked
Operational Delays:
Inventory and Recount Issues
Sterilization Efficiency:
Low Utility Concerns
Staffing & Documentation Challenges
Reporting Errors:
Documentation Accuracy
Staffing Strain:
Affecting Care Quality
Compromised Patient Safety Due to Overburdened Staff and Diminished Care Standards
Sterile Instruments Sterilization and Surgical Items Challenges
Low instrument utility raises critical questions about resource utilization, increasing sterilization workloads and contributing to waste
Underutilized Instruments
50%–65% of surgical instruments prepared for procedures remain unused, highlighting inefficiencies in planning and preparation
Instrument Oversight
Inventory mismanagement and recount errors frequently disrupt workflows, delaying surgeries by 30–120 minutes per procedure, increasing turnover times, and significantly reducing overall efficiency.
The Need of Mitigating Surgical Procedure Risks
We understand the critical need to address risks in surgical procedures that compromise patient health and operational efficiency. Unfortunately, these challenges contribute to significant issues, including:
Surgical Delays
Substantial delays occur in 12.5% of surgeries, negatively impacting both patient outcomes and operational efficiency.
Retained Surgical Objects
Occurring in 0.4% of cases, these critical oversight issues can have serious consequences for patient safety
Extended Anesthesia Risks
Unnecessary anesthesia durations increase the potential for complications
Elevated Infection Risks
Inefficiencies in the Room's sterilization process pre-, intra-, and post-surgical procedures heighten the likelihood of infection.
The US Healthcare Costs Are Skyrocketing
The Majority of U.S. Hospital CEOs Identify Rising Operational Expenses as Their #2 Top Concern
Healthcare leaders advocate for immediate solutions to address three major challenges: staffing shortages, financial constraints, and the urgent need to enhance patient safety and care quality.
The U.S. is witnessing a surge in healthcare costs, projected to reach a staggering 23% of the national GDP by 2030, totaling $6.8 trillion. Factors such as an aging population and the prevalence of chronic illnesses are driving demand for specialized care services in hospitals. Hospital care alone constitutes 32% of total healthcare spending, with projections of $2.2 trillion by 2030,equivalent to 7.5% of the U.S. national GDP.
The Operating Room serves as a significant revenue generator for healthcare providers. Yet, it represents a substantial resource demand and a significant cost driver within hospital care, with expected expenditures of $789 billion by 2030, equivalent to 3% of the GDP.
Leaders in the U.S. Are Increasingly Calling For Actionable Solutions
The Operating Room division is responsible for a substantial portion of hospital waste and inefficient resource utilization, including single-use items, surgical instruments, tools, and surplus supplies.
The Operating Rooms Division Is A Significant Financial Strain
Operating Rooms (ORs) are the financial engine of hospitals, driving 68% of total margins through high-value procedures supported by cutting-edge clinical technologies.But behind the curtain lies a less glamorous truth: ORs also account for 38% of hospital expenditures and a staggering 73% of hospital waste, making them one of the least optimized areas in modern healthcare
Despite their critical role, most Operating Rooms in 2025 still operate under layers of outdated, manual processes. These inefficiencies don’t just add up — they compound. Manual counting, over-preparation of surgical items, and automatic opening of disposables result in widespread waste: valuable OR time, overburdened nursing staff, and costly resources. Surgical kits are routinely overstocked, and studies show that up to 75% of items are prepared, sterilized, and counted — yet never used
Combined with a global shortage of Registered Nurses (RNs), the result is a deeply strained perioperative environment. With 95% of nursing tasks still performed manually,
delays of 30 to 120 minutes per procedure have become the norm. These inefficiencies drive up costs, compromise care quality, increase the risk of error, and limit timely access to surgeries—adding billions in avoidable expense to an already overwhelmed U.S. healthcare system.
Optimization of OR's Efficiency is a Key Factor to Significant Cost Reduction and Improved Financial Performance
What if We Could Achieve
Up to 52% Reduction
in OR's Costs?
TrackiMed Invites You to a New Era of Healthcare Excellence with
Our Solution
Redefining the Operating Room Landscape
TrackiMed: Purpose-Built to Answer the Urgent Call from Hospital Leadership
TrackiMed is an early-stage MedTech digital health company, founded in direct response to the urgent call from hospital leaders for innovative, scalable solutions.
We are developing Tracki, a real-time, nurse-centric AI platform designed to empower surgical teams with unmatched efficiency and precision. Tracki delivers real-time tracking, actionable insights, and fully automated 'time-out' documentation, dramatically reducing friction in the surgical workflow.
Our vision is to transform the operating room into a dynamic, responsive, and intelligently automated environment. By replacing the Sisyphean manual task of managing and monitoring every logistical detail before, during, and after surgery, Tracki helps streamline operations through advanced digitization and automation
We’re building a smart ecosystem that not only will reduce the workload for nurses but also drive measurable improvements in efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and patient safety —
With predictive, preventive insights that will elevate the standard of care.
