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 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, MHSA, PMP
Senior Director of the Surgery Service Line, Inova
Jane Yang, MHA
Director of Operations, Perioperative Services
Surgery Service Line Administration, Inova
Caity Butler, MSN, RN, CNOR
Manager of Centralized Scheduling, Inova
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