Hospitals can maximize their investment in surgical services by leveraging analytics insights from Merlin™
As healthcare evolves, hospitals are constantly searching for ways to make their services more efficient and data-enabled. This is particularly true in the operating room (OR), where operational reporting has not kept pace with the dizzying speed of clinical innovation. Surgical Directions’ Merlin™ analytics platform helps bring ORs into the modern era by distilling our decades of clinical insight into easy-to-understand visualizations and monitoring tools for managing OR performance and maximizing results.
The modular nature of the Merlin™ analytics platform allows organizations to find the solutions that best meet their evolving needs:
- Merlin™ Core enables an organization to standardize and organize operational data to optimize patient throughput and implement new OR efficiencies
- Merlin™ Block optimizes the block schedule by leveraging advanced analytics to bring objectivity to challenging questions about block allocations
- Merlin™ Pro provides a robust suite of tools for monitoring operational performance by combining the benefits of Merlin Core and Merlin Block, creating a single source of truth for procedural services
- Merlin™ Heatmap offers first-in-kind insights into day-by-day and hour-by-hour OR utilization patterns, enabling an organization to align staffing, equipment, and resources to the specific demands of the OR
- Merlin™ Navigator turbocharges an organization’s process improvement efforts by pairing our quick-to-install, easy-to-maintain software solutions with a partnership model that offers flexible access to our deep bench of experts
Merlin™ is a proprietary, industry-leading, web-based analytics software developed by Surgical Directions to enable organizations to convert insights into action.
A leader of one hospital OR that implemented Merlin™ had this to say: “takes the manual labor out of block utilization. The time that I get back to do other things is invaluable. It saves FTE hours.”
Learn more about how Merlin™ can put your data to work for you.
About Surgical Directions
Surgical Directions is a specialty healthcare solutions firm composed of professionals with deep experience in perioperative services working side-by-side with clients to achieve the absolute greatest impact and sustainable performance possible. We have time-tested methodologies designed to drive lasting change in surgical services’ operational, clinical and financial performance. Surgical Directions’ unique peer-to-peer model provides our clients the opportunity to work in partnership with consultants who specialize in their field – physician to physician, nurse to nurse, and executive to executive. This process promotes greater buy-in across our clients’ organizations – and a culture that fosters continuous improvements and lasting change. From assessment to implementation to interim placements or actionable insights, Surgical Directions is more than a solutions firm. We’re a collaborative partner dedicated to your success.
