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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 

The US Healthcare Costs Are Skyrocketing

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.

What if We Could  Achieve
Up to  52% Reduction
in OR's Costs?

The Operating Rooms Division Is A Significant Financial Strain

The OR is a critical nerve center for life-saving procedures, burdened by outdated manual processes prone to human errors impacting OR usage capacity,
and limiting patient access to care

Operating Rooms generate 68% of hospital-care revenue, driven by significant investments in advanced clinical technologies that deliver improved care.
Yet, the less glamorous side of the OR reveals a different story.

ORs account for 38% of total hospital expenditure and 73% of hospital waste, 
making them among the least optimized areas in healthcare.
Despite their critical role, ORs in 2024 still lag in adopting operational technology solutions, contributing significantly to skyrocketing U.S. healthcare costs

  These inefficiencies- combined with the global shortage of Registered Nurses (RNs)-create additional challenges. With 95% of perioperative nursing tasks remaining manual and 55%–65% of surgical items unused,
OR delays of 30–120 minutes per procedure have become the norm.
This not only drives up costs but also adversely affects patient outcomes, compromises care quality, and limits timely access to care.

Optimization of OR's Efficiency is a Key Factor to Significant Cost Reduction and Improved Financial Performance
The Rigorous Task of Managing and Monitoring Every Detail in the Operating Room is a Sisyphean Task 
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

 The 'Big Elephant' of
The Operating Rooms

In today’s healthcare landscape, manual processes, excessive instrument preparation, and a lack of data-driven decision-making often result in significant operational inefficiencies.

Nurses Frequently Bear the Brunt of These challenges

The responsibility of managing and monitoring every detail in the OR- spanning pre-, intra-, and post-surgical procedures- is an immense and relentless Sisyphean task that primarily falls on Registered Nurses (RNs).

These essential yet labor-intensive duties are not only time-consuming but also prone to errors, requiring unwavering attention and precision that is humanly challenging to sustain and highly contributing to burnout among Registered Nurses (RNs). The shift from their primary caregiving roles to administrative and logistical tasks within the OR is a source of frustration for many leading to retention issues driving (annually) 36%-40% of RNs to seek alternative career paths outside the profession.

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 Heavy Workload's Impact on OR Nurses' Quality of Life as well as on Patient Safety
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According to the American College of Healthcare Executives 2023 Annual Survey: Among 310 CEOs, 291 cited Personal Shortage as their Top Concern.
500K Registered Nurses Shortage in the U.S 
 36%-40%  Severe Burnout & Likely to Leave

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% 

Significant shortages of 1.2 million new registered nurses  (RNs) by 2032 

Other studies show that 36% of the RN's tasks are not requiring their clinical skills

TrackiMed Invites You to a New Era of Healthcare Excellence with 

Our Solution 

Redefining the Operating Room Landscape

Trackimed develops a software platform that is uniquely tailored to seamlessly complement the surgical theater and designed to serve as an extra pair of ears and eyes in the OR 

Introducing an advanced ecosystem that will significantly reduce the workload for nurses, improve overall efficiency while ensuring cost-effectiveness, and enhance the quality of care with predictive, preventive solutions for patient safety.

We aim to create an advanced, dynamic, and real-time responsive surgical environment by providing the team with real-time alerts to alter the Sisyphean manual tasks of managing and monitoring every logistic aspect
before, during, and after surgical procedures through digitization and automation

We harness the power of computer vision, cloud-based AI, and cutting-edge Natural Language Processing (NLP) to pioneer the First-of-Its-Kind Hospital Operating Room Perioperative Assistant Platform

U.S Hospital Care Market Analysis

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