Tailoring and teamwork help hospitals reduce wasteful pre-surgery testing

Every day, patients with an upcoming operation roll up their sleeves for blood tests or get heart and lung tests and scans.
Becker's Hospital Review

An effective approach to cut wasteful pre-surgery testing: Study

A customized, team-based strategy significantly reduced unnecessary pre-operative testing for common elective surgeries, according to a new study led ...
Becker's Spine Review

Smith+Nephew launches shoulder surgery pre-op software

Medtech company Smith+Nephew has launched its CORIOGRAPH pre-op planning and modeling services for total shoulder arthroplasty in the U.S. The software has image-based planning capabilities to allow ...
Becker's ASC

Patient Safety Tool: Ambulatory Surgery Pre- & Post-Operative Checklists

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ Patient Safety Committee provides free, downloadable pre- and post-operative ambulatory surgery patient safety checklists. While the two, one-page ...
Business Wire

Qventus Launches Perioperative Care Coordination Solution to Alleviate the Administrative Burden on Clinicians, Reduce Unnecessary Surgery Cancellations, and Optimize Patients ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Qventus, a leading provider of AI-based care automation software for health systems, today announced the launch of its Perioperative Care Coordination (PCC) solution that ...