Read about the results from a portion of the tray optimization project with OpFlow at one hospital in the May 2022 issue of Outpatient Surgery Magazine!

The typical reflex by hospitals when faced with tray unavailability due to sterile processing turnaround times is to purchase additional instrumentation. Consider how the instruments that your hospital already owns could be re-allocated and leverage our guidance to reduce your expense by purchasing only the instruments that you actually need.

We are honored that the presentation of an OpFlow implementation for orthopedic instrument tray optimization received the Resident Paper Award in the general interest section of this past weekend's 2021 NC Orthopaedic Association Annual Meeting!

OpFlow is proud to have been included among the presentations this past weekend at the American College of Surgeons 2021 Clinical Congress!

Ever wonder how much similarity there is in the instruments that are used by surgeons at different hospitals for the same types of procedures?

OpFlow analyzed our usage data for six of the most common Vascular Surgery cases, performed by surgeons at 6 different hospital systems across the country and here’s what we found…

Congrats to Loma Linda University Health for completing phase 1 of OpFlow Instrument Tray Optimization with a reduction of over 4,000 instruments! That’s 297,000 fewer instruments to process each year across the Vascular Surgery, Cardiac, Orthopedics, and Neurosurgery service lines!

In collaboration with our colleagues at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, we are excited to have submitted another manuscript for peer-review to the Operations Research journal, describing the methodology supporting the value provided by OpFlow.

Congrats to Piedmont Atlanta Hospital for completing phase 1 of OpFlow Instrument Tray Optimization with a total reduction of 5,217 instruments across the Vascular Surgery, Orthopedics, and Neurosurgery service lines!

Hot off the press! OpFlow has another peer-reviewed publication in the literature reporting on the success of our instrument tray optimization process. This article in the Annals of Plastic Surgery details the 2,652 instrument reduction for just two plastic surgery instrument tray types at UNC Rex Hospital.

Exciting outcomes in OB/GYN from OpFlow tray optimization being presented at the ACOG Annual Clinical & Scientific Meeting!

Just published by two Orthopedics groups in Philadelphia…they calculated an average annual savings of $281,298.05 -- for Total Knee and Total Hip cases alone.
OpFlow has consistently seen a significant opportunity for instrument reduction in the Orthopedics service line at hospitals across the country.

Outcomes using OpFlow’s instrument tray optimization were presented at the 2021 SAVS annual meeting.

Great study published this month in the American Journal of Otolaryngology by the group at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai. Their efforts achieved an instrument reduction of 64% for rhinoplasty cases, enabling an average cost savings on instrument processing of $62 to $93 per case.

The word is out! Our publication on the results using OpFlow technology to optimize Vascular Surgery instrument trays is in press in the Journal of Vascular Surgery.

The Dept. of Ophthalmology at Univ. of Chicago published results demonstrating significant direct cost savings and other indirect benefits from reducing surgical instrument trays. They concluded: "Applying these same methods to other surgeons and specialties can have significant implications on healthcare costs and quality."

"Almost all studies assessing interventions to reduce intraoperative costs have demonstrated cost savings with no apparent increase in adverse effects...hospitals seeking to reduce costs may be able to do so safely by standardizing operative instruments or providing cost feedback to surgeons."

Dr. Wood presented the outcomes of the OpFlow process on plastic surgery instrument trays at this year’s virtual American Society of Plastic Surgeons meeting.

Our on-site personnel are dedicated to ensuring a smooth process spanning from data collection all of the way through to successful deployment of your optimized instrument trays.