“Wasted time in healthcare operations is a significant issue that can directly affect patient outcomes. From excessive paperwork to outdated technology and inefficient team processes, you can come across several barriers to operational efficiency.
To help you tackle these challenges and boost efficiency, we’ve gathered our top time-saving solutions.
Embrace AI
AI can be a huge time-saving tool for healthcare operations teams. From AI-powered task management apps that can cut down the time needed to organise who needs to do what and when to AI scheduling tools that can create staff rotas in seconds, AI can work on the admin and repetitive tasks in the background to free up time for your teams to carry out personalised and quality patient care that can only be done by humans.
Dictation and transcription can also be made simple with AI, saving your teams time, significantly improving accuracy and helping to avoid mistakes. Healthcare operations teams can access hybrid transcription services to convert audio to text, combining automatic speech recognition technology with human expertise from professional transcriptionists in the sector.
Implement technology
Technology platforms and applications can improve the efficiency of simple tasks like transcribing patient medical information, digitising health records and internal communications. Value can be a big factor in the decision-making process when acquiring new technology. Because of this, it’s important to consider where your current inefficiencies lie and find out which options could provide solutions for time-wasting tasks or processes.
Whatever technology you choose to implement, it should allow your team to focus on patient care and the most crucial tasks within the healthcare setting they operate within.
Foster efficient cross-team communication
Whether you’re working in a hospital or GP surgery, clear communication ensures everyone is on the same page and can prevent errors. But why is this so important for saving time? It’s simple – the increased clarity significantly reduces the amount of time spent dealing with misunderstandings and correcting misaligned messaging.
So, how can you improve cross-team communication? One way is to schedule daily briefings and weekly meetings where your team can review and discuss important cases, set priorities and allocate resources. You could also utilise staff handover systems to keep everyone in the loop with important information on patients, team operations, and everything in between. This ensures everything runs smoothly without taking up any extra time.”
