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.
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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
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Features

  • 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

  • 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

 

  • 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

 

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-BC

Drive OR performance and outcomes across your organization

Perioperative services

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

Medical informatics

Standardizes content, maintains codes, and minimizes effort when integrating data into the EHR.

Clinical teams

Eliminates breakdown between ordering and scheduling procedures to improve efficiency.

Revenue integrity

Reduces denied claims, enables detailed preauthorization, and maximizes reimbursement.

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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