Case Study: Mount Sinai South Nassau boosts OR and block utilization with Hospital IQ

Digital Health Solutions Enable Perioperative Leaders to Make Data Driven Operational Improvements

Mount Sinai South Nassau, part of the Mount Sinai health system in Oceanside, NY, faced challenges managing perioperative operations with time-consuming manual analysis and limited trusted data. The hospital needed better visibility into operating room utilization, block scheduling, and recurring bottlenecks, while also reducing conflicts around block reallocation and improving decision-making. Hospital IQ provided its Perioperative solution to help the team become more data driven.

With Hospital IQ, Mount Sinai South Nassau gained a comprehensive source of truth and real-time situational awareness to review performance, identify root causes, and reallocate block time based on booking patterns. The hospital also adjusted resources in advance to address delays and overruns, resulting in a 12% increase in block utilization, an 8% increase in OR utilization, and 20 hours of data collection and analysis eliminated each week.

Mount Sinai South Nassau

Meghan Reilly

Perioperative Clinical Nurse Informaticist