The Perioperative Method for Healthcare
- Profit through Reputation
- Integrate clinical and commercial factors
- Reduce risk, reduce cost and improve the patient and clinician experience
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Perioperative Healthcare Consulting
1. Dr Douglas Fahlbusch
MBBS, FANZCA, GAICD, GDM
Perioperative Healthcare Consulting - Profit through Reputation
2. Perioperative Consulting
Perioperative Established 2012
Investigate & Commercialise
Perioperative workflow
improvements
Unique:
Clinical insights with
Business process experts
Perioperative Consulting Est 2015
Connect and Support Healthcare
People
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3. Dr Douglas Fahlbusch
Founder
Specialist (Anaesthesia)
15yrs/ 15,000 cases
Business/ Director
training and experience
(MB,BS, FANZCA, GDM, MAICD)
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5. Common Problems
Ageing population, Medical complexity
Funding pressures
‘Presentee’-ism - worse than absentee-ism
Difficulty finding quality middle management
Unrealistic expectations from visiting doctors
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6. Common Mistakes
Isolated clinical improvement -> can be ineffective
Isolated budgetary improvement -> can generate cost
elsewhere
Compliance as a burden -> missed opportunity for innovation
Pooled costs -> unable to diagnose and treat
Insufficient community building -> reduced referrals -> non-
contributory visiting personnel
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12. Text
Hospital Flow
Incomplete - ignores external providers. Time and Place not differentiated
Source: Fowler — Craig — Fredendall — Damali. AORN JANUARY 2008, VOL 87, NO 1, p 195
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13. Problems
Incomplete access to patient information increases
risk of errors
Existing systems complicate data access and disrupt
workflows = frustration, risk
Mobility, configurability new expectations
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15. Process improvements
Must focus on:
1. Flow of information: avoid delays
2. Team-members: cross-check vs duplication
3. Processes: include variations, feedback
Must be credible
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17. 2. Team Members
Functions/ roles well-defined.
Processes ill-defined
overlap, duplication, little cross-checking
Identify Key Players.
Reduce duplication, delay
Increase cross-checking, efficiency
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18. 3. Processes
Variations, failures, work-arounds
Interdependencies:
Time, Data
Internal and external functions
Routine feedback, reporting
‘Failures’ flagged for immediate intervention
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