Surgical scheduling and OR efficiency

Optimize surgical scheduling and perioperative processes

IMO Core Periop strengthens the surgical dictionary to help schedule procedures with greater detail, ensure OR efficiency, and maximize reimbursement.

Challenges

Inconsistent surgical procedure data can create workflow inefficiencies

When knowledge grows and changes rapidly and training data is not optimized in medical domains, it can be difficult to create NLP solutions that accurately identify and extract relevant concepts. NLP vendors often lack the necessary experience to deal with the complexity of clinical and biomedical language, account for nuances, and identify relationships between words and phrases. In addition, solutions built on open-source NLP models often require significant investment to add the necessary domain expertise.

Real-world data is typically dirty and incomplete

Procedure terms and their corresponding codes are regularly updated and modified when performing tasks like prior authorization, scheduling, measuring case durations, maintaining preference cards, and billing.

Without a well-maintained, centralized source of terms and standard codes, data becomes inconsistent and creates inefficiencies that impact an organization’s bottom line.

HOW WE HELP

IMO Core Periop

IMO Core Periop seamlessly maintains procedure terms, along with CPT® and HCPCS code mappings in the surgical dictionary, for more accurate data that helps improve scheduling, optimize preference cards, reduce denied claims, and enhance operating room and surgery center performance.

Optimize your operating room terms

Trust comprehensive and current surgical terminology

Decreases duplicate terms and helps organizations with standardized descriptions and code mappings
Updates important annual CPT and HCPCS releases automatically
5000+ patient friendly terms that maximize patient clarity, experience, and transparency

Streamline workflows and improve efficiency

Integrates search support with aliases to increase usefulness of the EHR and reduce tech burden
Simplifies content upkeep with mapping tools for timely access to IMO Health-validated procedures and codes
Applies precise case durations to enhance OR utilization through granular terminology

Capture better data and maximize financial return

Flags inpatient only procedures during scheduling
Includes all applicable codes to ensure complete pre-authorizations
Improves alignment to preference cards to optimize OR set-up, procurement, and supply chain management

Features

5,000+ patient-friendly terms

Appear alongside standardized clinical terms, aliases, codes, inpatient only-identifiers, and more – in the same file used for the OR scheduling module
Data is seamlessly passed through to patient-facing interfaces such as check-in kiosks, patient portals (browsers, mobile apps), reminders, and emails
Maximize patient clarity, experience, and transparency

IMO Core Periop capabilities vary based on EHR channel and integrations

Dedicated mapping tool to support migration and clean-up of surgical dictionary

Filter by service line to address specific sets of procedures, and toggle to easily locate duplicates
Map current procedures to IMO Health-validated, clinically-sound terms and codes that did not auto-match
Search IMO Health’s comprehensive catalogue of terms and collaborate with IMO Health clinical informaticists to ask questions and resolve mapping challenges

Proprietary platform for ongoing access, search, and selection of terms and codes to be integrated into your EHR

Search for procedures by name, CPT code, or HCPCS code across IMO Health’s comprehensive database of 70,000+ terms
Clarify ambiguous procedures using detailed descriptions and accurate code mappings
Download individual or groups of terms in formatted files for easy integration into the EHR and immediate use across scheduling and billing workflows

Developed in partnership with the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses, IMO Core Periop helps organizations improve scheduling efficiency and OR operations while upholding the latest perioperative nursing best practices.

Operating rooms, in all settings and at every level of volume, can benefit from IMO Core Periop. This surgical scheduling solution, grounded in actionable quality data, enhances the unique workflows and planning required for the perioperative environment.

Janice Kelly MS, RN-BCPresident, AORN Syntegrity Inc.

We were really struggling with estimates and IMO Core Periop has made a world of difference for McLeod.

Leanne Bradley, RN, MSN, CGRNClinical Applications Analyst III, McLeod Health

Drive OR performance and outcomes across your organization

Perioperative services

Helps make connections between scheduled surgeries, overall OR operations, and revenue.

How well is your surgical scheduling data maintained?

Find out with a free assessment. IMO Health will review your procedure list file to determine data quality, identify downstream impacts, and recommend steps to standardize the information.

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