DEO.care’s Market Access Services help hospitals and medtech companies evaluate surgical innovations not only on patient outcomes, but also on efficiency, cost-effectiveness, staff workload, and sustainability. Using digital twin technology, DEO.care delivers real-world, data-driven insights that support smarter adoption and value-based care.

DEO.care’s Market Access Services help hospitals and medtech companies evaluate surgical innovations not only on patient outcomes, but also on efficiency, cost-effectiveness, staff workload, and sustainability. Using digital twin technology, DEO.care delivers real-world, data-driven insights that support smarter adoption and value-based care.

At Watauga Orthopaedics, Director Leann Bradley Foltz partnered with DEO.care to capture hands-off, detailed OR data without disrupting workflows. The insights revealed inefficiencies invisible to manual tracking, enabling smarter decisions, cost savings, and continuous improvement in patient care.

DEO.care’s study of surgeons across four countries reveals five essentials for successful robotics adoption: adapt to workflows, streamline setup, align teams, focus on efficiency, and use data. The result: smoother ORs and better outcomes.

DEO.care’s new Instrument Analyzer uses data-driven insights to optimize surgical instrument trays, reducing waste, sterilization costs, and staff workload. By streamlining configurations, hospitals can improve OR efficiency, cut expenses, and enhance team well-being.

Value-based care seeks better outcomes at lower cost, but hospitals often lack precise cost insights. Using process digital twins and activity-based costing, efficiency gains like higher throughput and fewer instrument trays show how smarter workflows can improve both quality and finances.

At the EFORT 2023 symposium in Vienna, global experts shared how data and team alignment are key to achieving operational excellence in the OR. Discussions highlighted the importance of linking people and processes, using process digital twins to simulate improvements, and building data-driven business cases for new workflows and technologies.

Rising costs and staff burnout make data-driven decision-making essential for operating rooms. By using process digital twins to simulate workflows, hospitals can test improvements virtually, align stakeholders, and build compelling business cases.

Process digital twins use AI-driven simulations to map OR workflows, identify inefficiencies, and test improvements without costly trial and error. By capturing granular data from just a handful of surgeries, hospitals can boost throughput, reduce variability, align teams, and support continuous improvement.

Robot-assisted surgery offers major benefits but can initially disrupt OR workflows and efficiency. By using digital twins and data-driven simulations, hospitals can map effective change, align teams, and integrate robotic devices smoothly. This will minimize disruptions, safeguard financial performance, and ensure long-term surgical and patient benefits.

The Quadruple Aim expands the traditional focus on patient outcomes, population health, and cost reduction by adding care team well-being, now recognized as essential to high-quality care. In the OR, this means using digital tools and process improvements to reduce staff fatigue, boost efficiency, cut costs, and enhance both team and patient experience.

Kurt Hertogs, CEO of AZ Monica’s Orthopedic Focus Clinic, highlights how data can unite surgeons, staff, and management to drive meaningful change. By quantifying OR performance, data builds trust, empowers teams, and creates a foundation for business cases that support sustainable improvements in hospital operations.

Operating rooms drive both revenue and costs, making efficiency critical to hospital performance. Key metrics, such as standardization, consistency, parallel processing, and optimal use of staff and materials, help identify improvement opportunities. Even small process changes, like parallelizing preparation steps, can reduce variability, save time, and boost OR throughput.

Activity-based costing links OR costs directly to resource use, giving hospitals clearer insights to cut expenses, benchmark performance, and justify investments. Using this approach, hospitals have achieved up to 8% annual cost savings while freeing OR capacity.

Improving operating room efficiency is about more than increasing surgical volume. It impacts staff well-being, hospital finances, and patient satisfaction. By broadening the focus beyond surgical time to include setup, breakdown, resource use, and team ergonomics, hospitals can uncover opportunities to streamline workflows, reduce costs, and create a healthier, more sustainable work environment.

At The Surgery Center of Lynchburg, Dr. Peter Caprise reduced hip replacement instrument trays from 8–9 to 5 per case, cutting sterile processing costs by $40,300 annually while streamlining workflows, easing staff workload, and improving sustainability.

At Hôpital de la Croix Saint-Simon in Paris, Dr. Thomas Aubert seamlessly integrated robot-assisted knee surgery, enhancing consistency, reducing team workload, and creating a smooth surgical rhythm. The team is now building on this foundation to increase OR throughput in flip rooms.

At the Surgery Center of Lynchburg, Dr. Helvie optimized his flip room setup to add up to three extra cases per day while still ending by 3 p.m. This created a scalable, sustainable system to grow his practice without compromising care quality.

Noorderhart Hospital, supported by Vlaanderen Circulair, optimized surgical trays to cut sterilization costs by 50% (€56,500 annually), streamline workflows, reduce staff workload, and improve sustainability. This is an excellent example showcasing how regional collaboration drives circular healthcare innovation.

At Colchester Hospital, Mr. Parratt integrated robot-assisted knee surgery without increasing OR time, achieving time-neutrality while reducing instrument tray weight, lowering team workload, and enhancing consistency in the NHS setting.