Healthcare Control Systems

Improving workflows around the world

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Automated workflow control systems revolutionizing healthcare operations

What is a Workflow Control System?

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What Healthcare is Learning from Transportation and Manufacturing
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Healthcare Control Systems builds software and mobile apps that transform the way healthcare organizations run. Our solutions on the ORControl™ platform combine real-time, workflow control technologies with best practices used in manufacturing and transportation to better manage hospitals – improving collaboration, patient outcomes, surgeon outreach, utilization, revenue, and profit.

Make your healthcare operations more productive and profitable

Facility-wide coordination in real-time

Effortlessly change your schedule on-the-fly circumventing cancellations and delays across all departments.

Top and bottom line financial growth

Improve surgeon attraction, case volumes, and market share while simultaneously reducing overtime.

No training needed

System configured to match your existing and future workflows making it as easy to use as an ATM.

Complements your clinical systems

Fully compatible with your existing clinical systems Epic, Meditech, Cerner, Optum-Picis, VistA

Available on every device you use every day – Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, smart phones – fully HIPAA compliant.

"Though my caseload has increased by over 30%, HCS's workflow control solutions have afforded me more clinical time with my patients and their families."

Dr. Augustine Park

Chief Anesthesiologist

Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas

“HCS’s workflow control improves staff awareness and accountability, enabling our team to seamlessly and effectively manage increases in case volume and complexity.”

Dr. Augustine Park

Chief Anesthesiologist

Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas

“It allows you to stay ahead of the curve in terms of patient care. I can’t imagine doing my job without it.”

Mark Dentz

Anesthesiologist, Perioperative Operations Director

Williamson Medical Center, Franklin, Tennessee

“I was, frankly, flabbergasted. The first thing that struck me was how quiet the pre-op area was.”

​Kenneth Shine, MD

Executive Vice Chancellor, University of Texas System
Former President, Institute of Medicine

National Academy of Sciences

“You don’t have people who need to do catch-up and that increases patient safety. There is a sense in medicine that only physicians and health care providers can figure out how to be more efficient. That is a false dichotomy.”

​Kenneth Shine, MD

Executive Vice Chancellor, University of Texas System
Former President, Institute of Medicine

National Academy of Sciences

“That’s one of the beautiful things about our workflow control system, it’s completely customizable.”

Daniel Ernst

Chief Nurse Anesthetist

Dell Children’s Medical Center

“With a third of our patients being inmates of Texas, the fact that we have been able to have this effect on OR efficiency is remarkable. We have turnover times comparable to large, private hospitals. We all love it.”

J. Sean Funston

Professor of Anesthesiology and Medical Director of Perioperative Services

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

“It made me proactive to the tenth power rather than reactive to things I couldn’t control...Now we’re looking out of the front windshield rather than reacting to things that already happened.”

Daniel Ernst

Chief Nurse Anesthetist

Dell Children’s Medical Center

“I was the cynical OR director, but this exceeds my expectations every single day...I drank the Kool-Aid.”

Mara Rosalsky

Director of Surgical and Interventional Services

Dell Seton Medical Center

“I believe that these kinds of systems are inevitable, but I don’t believe we have reached a tipping point yet.”

​Kenneth Shine, MD

Executive Vice Chancellor, University of Texas System
Former President, Institute of Medicine

National Academy of Sciences

“If you’re at 90% on time for your first case of the day, you’re supposed to be awesome. We are up to 95% on-time starts at one of our hospitals. It was 60% when we started in 2012.”

Sam Awad

Professor of Surgery, Vice Chair Quality and Safety

Baylor College of Medicine

“I like to describe it as the control tower of the OR.”

J. Sean Funston

Professor of Anesthesiology and Medical Director of Perioperative Services

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

“When I first heard about our workflow control project and how many stakeholders it involved across our entire medical center, I was convinced that it was going to expose us to significant risks plus severely strain my IT resources. I am happy to report three years later that deployment costs were quite small, ongoing IT costs are almost zero, and, to date, no risks have emerged.”

Danny Sierra

Senior Director Information Technology Group

Methodist Hospital and Methodist Children’s Hospital, San Antonio, Texas

“Our hospitals would never use a clinical IT system to control the HVAC system. Why then would we use clinical systems to control our workflow?”

Kenneth Shine, MD

Executive Vice Chancellor, University of Texas System
Former President, Institute of Medicine

National Academy of Sciences

“Staff spent their days physically running around looking for people, peeking into rooms, calling on the phone. No one knew where everyone was. You truly were flying blind. You were just hoping this surgeon would be done by this time, but (now) you can see it in real time.”

Daniel Ernst

Chief Nurse Anesthetist

Dell Children’s Medical Center

"Our time-to-money was less than 6 months from the start of the HCS workflow control project to the realization of hard dollar benefits"

Dr. Robert Bonar

President and Chief Executive Officer

​Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas

“HCS’s workflow control system has made a huge impact in the efficiency of our operations. Its transparency and ease of use deliver real-time, actionable information to every constituent, guaranteeing their success.”

Dr. Genevieve Mounce, MD

Anesthesiologist

​Capital Anesthesiology of Austin