Latest thinking on healthcare operations, OR scheduling, and the future of hospital efficiency.
OR forecasting is heading toward a live command center, where forecasting, scheduling, and day-of orchestration run as one system instead of three tools.
Mark Deshur, MD, MBA
Read articleA 95% accuracy figure decides very little on its own. What separates OR forecasting tools is coverage modeling, lead time, and follow-through to the schedule.
Sean Slattery, MBA
Read articleBolt-on forecasting adds prediction to a system built for something else; built-in starts there. These questions reveal which one a vendor is actually selling.
Caleb Lush
Read articleOR forecasting asks far less of your EMR than analytics projects usually do: a short list of case fields you already capture, and no new interfaces to build.
Bradley McLain
Read articleWellness programs don't stop turnover because unpredictability is the cause. Predictable schedules address it, and the data to build them already exists.
Mark Deshur, MD, MBA
Read articleAn accurate forecast still fails without frontline trust. A rollout that makes charge nurses champions, not end users: listen, pilot, train, reinforce.
Larissa Gierhart, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, CAPA
Read articlePilots succeed and scale-ups stall for predictable reasons. A phased model for taking OR forecasting house-wide: prove, standardize, expand, then govern it.
Greg Ekstrom
Read articleReadiness isn't about whether forecasting works. Five signs your OR already has the conditions for predictive staffing, starting with morning-of decisions.
Sean Slattery, MBA
Read articleWhat OR demand forecasting actually returns in twelve months, where the money comes from, and how to pressure-test any ROI claim a vendor puts in front of you.
Caleb Lush
Read articleThe 5:45 a.m. staffing call costs far more than the premium shift it buys — in throughput, cancellations, and a retention bill that arrives months later.
Larissa Gierhart, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, CAPA
Read articleSix CRNA scheduling problems practice managers hit — late shortages, overtime, premium locums — and how forecasting surfaces each one early enough to act.
Mark Deshur, MD, MBA
Read articleOptimizing anesthesia staffing isn't cutting cost — it's matching coverage to real demand. Why historical averages stopped working and what replaces them.
Mark Deshur, MD, MBA
Read articleA forecast built on yesterday's snapshot is already wrong. How live EMR integration keeps OR forecasting current as add-ons, blocks, and cancellations move.
Bradley McLain
Read articleYour CFO needs a number they can defend, not another pitch. How to size what reactive staffing costs and frame the ask so the business case gets signed.
Greg Ekstrom
Read articleMost ORs don't know whether they're actually short-staffed or just badly distributed. What reactive staffing costs, and what changes with demand visibility.
Sean Slattery, MBA
Read articleIdle rooms, rising locum reliance, and subsidies climbing faster than anyone is comfortable with. What perioperative leaders need to know going into 2026.
Mark Deshur, MD, MBA
Read articleLabor is 60 to 70 percent of OR operating cost. Seven ways managing it reactively drains the budget, from premium agency pay to the hidden tax of onboarding.
Larissa Gierhart, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, CAPA
Read articleCoordinators piece tomorrow together from experience and a schedule that keeps moving. That isn't a staffing problem. It's a forecasting problem, and it's solvable.
Bradley McLain
Read articleWhat surgical service leaders, CFOs, and OR directors say about forecasting — why it stopped being a nice-to-have, and what's still holding some of them up.
Caleb Lush
Read articleWhat AI surgical volume forecasting actually is, why forecasting only matters if it changes staffing decisions, and what the 6:15 a.m. scramble really costs.
Mark Deshur, MD, MBA
Read articleORlogic's release closes the gap between forecasting surgical demand and acting on it, with a mobile-ready interface and integrated SMS staffing communication.
ORlogic
Read articleA 500-bed Chicagoland hospital moved from morning-of staffing to a 60-day rolling forecast: 12.6% lower total labor cost and 4.1% more surgical volume.
ORlogic
Read articleA clinical nurse leader on the daily grind of matching staffing to volume, and why ORlogic was built to replace that guesswork with something predictable.
Larissa Gierhart, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, CAPA
Read articleTwenty years in the operating room, watching skilled teams fly blind on staffing. Mark Deshur on the gap no scheduling tool closed, and why he built ORlogic.
Mark Deshur, MD, MBA
Read articleOur team publishes on OR demand forecasting, anesthesia and CRNA staffing, perioperative scheduling, workforce retention, EMR integration, and how to build the business case for predictive staffing.
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