TY - JOUR AU - Garbey, Marc AU - Joerger, Guillaume AU - Huang, Albert AU - Salmon, Remi AU - Kim, Jinsu AU - Sherman, Vadim AU - Dunkin, Brian AU - Bass, Barbara PY - 2015 DA - 2015/07/18 TI - An intelligent hospital operating room to improve patient health care JO - Journal of Computational Surgery SP - 3 VL - 2 IS - 1 AB - Optimizing management of multiple hospital operating rooms (ORs) is a complex problem. A large hospital can have upwards of greater than 50 with a large number of different procedures per day and per OR that needs to be scheduled several weeks in advance. Each procedure requires gathering a team led by a surgeon for a specific block of time in the OR, but even common procedures such as cholecystectomies, which account for about 1.4 million cases per year in the USA, exhibit a significant variation in total procedure duration. OR time is one of the most significant budget chapters in a modern hospital, and it has also been shown that delays in OR procedures due to lapses in scheduling and/or OR resources availability have been responsible for post-surgical complications. SN - 2194-3990 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40244-015-0016-7 DO - 10.1186/s40244-015-0016-7 ID - Garbey2015 ER -