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Automated Minute-By-Minute Coordination
Managing your entire hospital like air traffic control

What is a Minute-By-Minute Coordination System?

ORCONTROL is the leading coordination system in healthcare, managing medical centers across the U.S. and Europe, including the four largest health systems in the U.S. – Ascension, Common Spirit, HCA, and the Veterans Health Administration.

The Problem

Each scheduled OR case requires ~ 120 human touchpoints to complete. Unfortunately, unexpected events occur incessantly, throwing even state-of-the-art schedules into disarray.

What’s Missing

Air Traffic Control for hospitals. ORCONTROL is an automated minute-by-minute coordination system that manages unexpected events as they occur. It seamlessly communicates operational adjustments on the fly to all hospital departments, physicians, staff, and families.

Adoption

ORCONTROL achieves full adoption through numerous critical system attributes, such as not needing end-user training and not requiring end-users to enter any data. No other IT system comes close to providing all the critical attributes required to achieve and sustain 100% adoption.

Customization

ORCONTROL is highly configurable and is customized to fit and support the unique operational characteristics of each hospital that it manages. And, not just for initial deployment, but month after month.

Build Strong Teams Across Silos

ORCONTROL helps individuals to take ownership of their role because accountability becomes unavoidable. Everyone sees and understands their responsibilities so they can prioritize their work, coordinate their tasks, and execute them on-time.

Leverage Existing Investments

ORCONTROL leverages existing infrastructure…
  • EMR systems such as Epic, Cerner, VistA, Meditech, Picis, Veradigm
  • Realtime Location System (RTLS) tracking of patients, staff, and critical equipment
  • Scheduling and AI planning systems
  • Messaging systems such as Vocera, EASE, Storz, Twillio
  • Personnel management through its interface with Oracle, ADP, Kronos
  • Process improvement and consulting initiatives
  • Patient family communication tools and capabilities

Client Documented Results

94%

first-case on-time starts (FCOTS)

< 20

minutes average turnover times

41%

increase in OR case volume

< 6

months ROI (time-to-money)

Patient safety Nurse retention HCAP scores

Make your healthcare operations more productive and profitable

Facility-wide coordination in real-time

Top and bottom line financial growth

No training needed

Complements your clinical systems

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“HCS’s coordination 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

"ORControl is so intuitive that they instantly know how to use it. This fast adoption is unique in healthcare settings and creates efficiencies within the surgical team, as well."

Brian Swallow

Vice President of Surgical Services

Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, KS

"Though my caseload has increased by over 30%, HCS's coordination system 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“HCS’s coordination system 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

Daniel Ernst

Chief Nurse Anesthetist

Dell Children’s Medical Center

“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

“When I first heard about our coordination system 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

“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

“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

"Surgeons want to call up, schedule a case, show up, have everything in place, and be very efficient. With ORControl, we've been able to develop those efficiencies, and we have become the place they want to work."

Frank Sciolino

Director of Surgical Services

Saint Thomas MidTown, Nashville, TN

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

Dr. Robert Bonar

President and Chief Executive Officer

​Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas