Bring efficiency and savings to your OR
The operating room is responsible for nearly 70% of your hospital’s revenue — but it also accounts for much of the complexity, inefficiency and waste in your health system.1
69%
of clinicians have delayed or canceled OR cases due to missing supplies2
40%
of overall hospital expenses can be attributed to the OR3
~$2B
in potential charge capture is lost from inaccurate documentation4
13%
of surgical supply costs can be attributed to wasted supplies1
Help reduce supply chain waste while supporting product availability and improving accurate charge capture in your OR with Cardinal Health™ WaveMark™ OR Solutions. Our experts will help you refine complex processes while barcode and state-of-the-art RFID technology ensure accurate clinical documentation to meet Joint Commission requirements and gain visibility into your OR inventory, all while driving efficiencies throughout critical operating room workflows. Learn how WaveMark™ Clinical Supply Chain Consulting can optimize your people and processes before technology.
Healthcare supply chain automation and digital management, powered by WaveMark™ IntelliWave™ Technology, guides OR clinicians to easily document product usage and link to the patient record at the moment of care via barcode-and RFID-enabled workflows while interfacing with the EMR and ERP solutions throughout your hospital. The WaveMark™ Solution:
- Helps protect patients from never events
- Gives your supply chain teams accurate inventory visibility across the enterprise, down to the hospital and department level
- Delivers data-driven insights to help manage optimal product levels
Our OR Solution enables strategic decision-making using our advanced analytics center: Using artificial intelligence, our proprietary IntelliWave™ Technology uses predictive analytics that help identify underlying issues in the supply chain. Then, it recommends actions to help improve financial performance, increase staff efficiency and satisfaction and enhance patient safety.
WaveMark delivers a safer, more efficient OR5
Enhanced patient safety
<1.5% expiration rate; 29% better than the average department
Improved financial performance
<$59K inventory value; 62% better than the average department
Improved staff efficiency
<1% waste; 69% better than the average department
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What our customers say
"[WaveMark] gives our nurses, our surgeons this greater level of safety net that says I’ve got this machine learning and this technology working for me…and it’s going to help me deliver care, it’s going to help me document more efficiently so I’m spending less time doing that as a nurse."
— Carol Pehotsky, Associate Chief Nursing Officer at Cleveland Clinic6
"WaveMark has been instrumental to us to provide exceptional care to our patients and customers."
— Supply Chain Leader, Large Southwest Health System7
"I’m a float nurse, but I prefer working in our ORs that leverage WaveMark. The ease of documentation at the point of use really helps."
— OR Nurse, Large Southwest Hospital7
References: 1. Zygourakis CC, et al. Operating room waste: disposable supply utilization in neurosurgical procedures. J Neurosurg. 2017;126(2):620-625. 2. Cardinal Health data on file. Supply chain survey data conducted by SERMO; 2017. 3. OR costs: labor vs. materials. Open Anesthesia Web site. https://www.openanesthesia.org/or_costs_labor_vs_materials/. Accessed June 22, 2022. 4. Alexander-Vaughn S. Value-based strategies for implantable devices. https://studylib.net/doc/9255405/value-based-strategies-for-ppi-and-implantable-devices. Published 2012. Accessed June 22, 2022. 5. Cardinal Health data on file. Internal analysis; 2021. 6. Becker’s Webinar: Achieving Operational & Clinical Efficiency Oct. 2022. 7. Cardinal Health data on file. 2021.
