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Idle rooms, rigid block schedules, manual workflows, and limited visibility into available OR time are challenges that perioperative leaders across the country are navigating every day. The question is: what does it actually look like when a team solves them?
In this one-hour virtual event, leaders from three health systems share their stories directly: the operational problems they were facing, what they changed, and the results that followed.
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These are peer conversations: candid, specific, and grounded in the realities of running surgical services today.
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Join us for an information-packed double-feature webinar that will focus on how quality improvements in both the OR and SPD can enhance patient safety.
Quality Matters: Building a High-Performance Sterile Processing Department
Every sterile processing department (SPD) must achieve three primary goals related to patient safety: Instruments must be Available, Functional and Safe for Use (AFS) for each patient. To achieve AFS, four key variables must be maximized; number of staff, staff proficiency, equipment/supplies/facilities, and efficiency. Shortages in any of these variables will lead to negative impacts on AFS. A Quality Management System (QMS), which overarches AFS and its four variables, is necessary for the SPD to understand how well it is performing from a patient safety perspective. Our panelists will describe a collaboration between a large health system and operating room services provider SpecialtyCare that reduced the SPD error rate from a high of 22.5% negatively affected cases to an average of approximately 1%.
AI-Enabled Quality Improvement in the OR
A leader at Stanford Health Care will share how Stanford uses objective procedural evidence to support patient safety and quality improvement. Using Aimbient’s procedural AI platform, Stanford has built a recurring, multidisciplinary review process that helps teams move beyond documentation and recollection to a shared understanding of procedural care. The program has grown from roughly 40 participants to more than 400 and has supported changes in areas including specimen handling, retained-object workflows, hemorrhage response, universal protocol, and closed-loop communication. Panelists will discuss the governance, clinician trust, and follow-through required to turn evidence into action.
Thursday, December 4, 2025 | 1:00 PM ET
Presented by AssistIQ
Join AssistIQ and health system leaders for a candid roundtable on how hospitals are reimagining supply and implant documentation with AI-powered capture. Panelists will share why they adopted this approach, what implementation looked like, and the measurable impact they’ve seen so far.
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Tuesday, November 18, 2025 | 12:00 PM ET Brought to you by: Ansell
Wednesday, November 5, 2025 | 1:00 PM ET
This session introduces clinical nurses to the fundamentals of artificial intelligence in healthcare, with a focus on building AI literacy. We’ll explore essential terminology, real-world examples of generative AI, and ethical frameworks such as the HIMSS “5 Rights of AI.” Participants will gain awareness of emerging technologies, from robotics to AI prompting, and how these tools are influencing clinical workflows, communication, and decision-making.
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