1. Surgical Admitting:
   • Surgeon offices easily schedule surgeries and admit patients to one or more hospitals. Users can modify documents with version control.
   • Surgeons make pre-operative, case-specific implant selection.
   • Hospitals schedule and confirm surgeries, and make any modifications to the admitting documentation.
   • Hospitals secure pre-certification authorization with insurance companies and notify all the requisite downstream departments for testing and discharge planning.
2. Collaborative Commerce:
   • Hospitals have surgery pick lists with all requisite materials.
   • Hospitals can reconcile consumed materials.
   • Automatic orders are generated based on specific business rules.
   • Suppliers can send shipments and do surgery-specific fulfillment.
   • Hospitals receive shipments and invoices, and match against the order.
   • Hospitals can alter par levels and have real-time visibility.
   • Hospitals can return excess or unwanted inventory with reverse logistics.

Surgeons:

• Reduce surgery delays due to pre-certification authorization, clinical notification or implant non-availability. Up to 25% of surgeries are postponed or cancelled for these reasons
• Access an easy-to-use surgery scheduling and patient admitting service to one or more hospitals. Scheduling currently requires multiple phone calls and often multiple paper admit forms
• Improve physician preference card management so surgeons receive the right implants, equipment, and supplies
• Access real-time, personalized usage and cost information to improve practice efficiencies

Hospitals:

• Delight referring surgeons
• Reduce uncompensated surgeries or surgery delays due to admitting process problems
• Reduce cost of technology ownership with more service flexibility
• Integrate scheduling, admitting, and materials management into one integrated work flow process
• Comply with HIPAA regulations
• Effectively manage implant and equipment tray inventory to reduce slippage charges, shipping costs, and inventory carrying costs
• Seamlessly generate orders based on varying inventory stocking types and when material is needed, not earlier.
• Reduce equipment tray reprocessing and part replacement costs

Medical Device and Equipment Suppliers:

• Increase consigned inventory turns, currently 1-3x turns
• Reduce receivables days, currently 45-90 days on average
• Increase surgery sales representative productivity. Field reps spend up to 50% on non-selling paper or telephone related activities.
• Track serial codes in patients for FDA reporting purposes
• Access real-time hospital inventory at serial number level

Surgeon:

• Integrated surgery scheduling, admitting, and materials planning service
• Centralized, modifiable patient admitting record workflow enabled with requisite hospital departments
• Surgery-driven pre-operative implant selection and inventory reserving
• Sales representative alerts for increased service and support
• Rich, personalized usage information

Hospital:

• Surgery scheduling and admitting service integrated with our operating room materials management system
• Perpetual inventory management managing varying inventory stocking types
• Order management system based on just in time inventory management concepts. Order bifurcation based on inventory stocking type.
• Surgery pick lists and post-surgery reconciliation with serial code tracking using bar code scanning technology
• Seamless order, shipping, and receiving matching
• Reverse logistics for excess or unwanted stock

Medical Device and Equipment Suppliers:

• Sales force automation tool: advanced surgery notifications, hospital approved orders, and real-time inventory visibility
• Customer-facing order fulfillment: hospital orders, shipment notices against the orders, and receiving confirmation
• Reverse logistics capability
• Sophisticated product configurator enabling users to easily plan surgeries and hospitals to manage inventory