Tinderbox for Operational Planning
Brian Gregory of ORtimes.org uses Tinderbox to explore how hospitals can save money by better scheduling of operating rooms.
I had a brief, but interesting conversation with a CMO of a large hospital recently. To his credit, he’s trying to make a dysfunctional hospital run better. We talked about the OR, and how the hospital is effectively paying the surgeons to show up 10 minutes early to start cases.