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title: Where does growth in case volume come from?
description: Growth in surgical case volume comes from surgeons currently performing few cases per week.  These providers need access to operating room time.
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# Where does growth in case volume come from?

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Franklin Dexter, MD, Ph.D., is probably the most prolific researcher on the subject of operating room efficiency. His work at the University of Iowa has covered quite a broad spectrum of the clinical and financial issues facing a hospital’s management of its ORs.

I’d like to focus on an interesting byproduct of [a study](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0952818017310449) he and his colleagues did that looked at previous observational studies’ findings regarding turnover time reduction to promote surgical case growth. They found that while reducing turnover time would help a small number of surgeons, its overall impact on total growth in cases for a hospital would be negligible.

So, where does the bulk of growth come from? Dr. Dexter’s paper points out that **most growth comes from surgeons who do two or fewer cases per week** at a hospital. They conclude that “the strategic priority should be to assure that the many low-caseload surgeons have access to convenient OR time.”

Where do we find this “convenient OR time”? We harvest it from block time that would otherwise go unused. Sounds simple, right? But there are a myriad of challenges - political, behavioral, access-to-data, math, and communication/coordination challenges – that stand in the way of providing access to convenient OR time for these high-growth providers. For now, know that there are solutions to each of these challenges. We’ll discuss the challenges and their solutions in the next blog post.

Access to convenient OR time comes from predicting time likely to go unused, getting it released, then getting it into the hands of providers who can use it. That’s what we do at Copient Health. After deploying the Copient Health solution at our pilot facility, **we were able to demonstrate a 49% increase in case volume among surgeons with no block time**.

Interested in boosting your surgical growth? [Reach out to us](https://www.copienthealth.com/about/index#hs-chat-open) – it’s our favorite subject!

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Copient Health uses machine learning to bring margin-increasing case volume to your unused block time. Its powerful algorithms identify OR block time likely to go unused and give your staff the tools necessary to make effective use of that time. It includes real-time analytical tools to support decision-making around block management and allocation.  The results include meaningful improvement in utilization with subsequent margin gains. 

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#### Michael Burke

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A serial entrepreneur and investor in the healthcare technology space, Mike has over 20 years of experience founding and growing healthcare technology companies. He is currently a co-founder of Copient Health, a startup in the Operating Room optimization space. He serves as a mentor for aspiring entrepreneurs at Georgia Tech’s Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) and at the Atlanta Tech Village. Mike and his wife Tracy have three daughters and are both avid cyclists.

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