Released OR time is leaving capacity — and revenue — on the table


Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CT 

OR inefficiency doesn't always look like downtime. It often hides in missed opportunities — unused blocks, delayed scheduling and reactive processes. At many health systems, released OR time becomes a quiet drain: lost revenue, surgeon frustration and underused capacity at exactly the moment demand is rising.

The traditional tools aren't keeping up. Emails and spreadsheets create friction, slow handoffs and obscure where capacity is actually available. Surgeons get frustrated. Schedulers get overwhelmed. Volume growth stalls.

Falls Church, Va.-based Inova took a different approach. Its predictive orchestration model replaced reactive scheduling with a system designed to surface available time and match it to the right requestors, driving a 46% release fill rate, 20% more OR minutes available and case volume growth among top open-time requestors, including 8% growth in OR cases and 13% growth in endoscopy cases.

In this webinar, Inova leaders will share what changed and how.

Key learnings include:
 
  • The strategies and tech behind Inova's 46% release fill rate
  • How centralized scheduling, data transparency and governance fueled adoption
  • Tactics to engage surgeons, improve labor efficiency and scale success

Presenters: 

Kelly Connolly, Inova (1) - Sydney Mason

Kelly Connolly, MHSA, PMP

Senior Director of the Surgery Service Line, Inova

Jane Yang, Inova Updated (1) - Sydney Mason (1)

Jane Yang, MHA

Director of Operations, Perioperative Services 
Surgery Service Line Administration, Inova

Caity Butler, New Headshot, Inova (1) - Sydney Mason

Caity Butler, MSN, RN, CNOR

Manager of Centralized Scheduling, Inova

Moderator:

Thomas Brehmer, LeanTaaS Moderator for Inova (1) - Sydney Mason

Thomas Brehmer

Senior Customer Outcomes Manager, LeanTaaS