Add two more cases
per OR per month
Powered by ambient AI and linked to the EHR, Apella gives surgical teams the data they need to serve more patients and still go home on time. That's up to a 15x ROI.
In busy ORs,
every minute matters
Serve more patients with the resources you already have while also elevating care quality and safety.
Keep the day on track to prevent delays and overtime
Use real-time OR intelligence to eliminate the distractions and inefficiencies that disrupt the surgical schedule, and automate administrative tasks to reduce staff burnout.
View case status across ORs in a real-time video gallery and make staffing decisions easier than ever
Make changes on the fly with up-to-the-minute case predictions and keep everyone updated with live boards
Coordinate across surgeons, anesthesiologists, and perioperative services with text alerts
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16%
ReDUCE LONG TURNOVER TIMES BY 16% TO ENABLE MORE END-OF-DAY CASES
10%
INCREASE or case volume and revenue by 10% per per month
Maximize every OR minute and grow schedule capacity
Help the entire surgical staff make the most of existing resources and prioritize what they do best: providing better care to more patients every day.
Improve case duration forecasts by 24% compared to the EHR and never guess again
Optimize block utilization and improve open time to consistently comply with hospital policies
Identify and fill unused OR time automatically to always optimize resource utilization and avoid lag time
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From data you can trust to actions you can follow
Improve workflow efficiency with retrospective video and analytics to set benchmarks, track key metrics, and drive continuous improvement.
Capture up to 14 key surgical events automatically, including novel events not otherwise found in the EHR
Write back data to the EHR autonomously to help perioperative staff focus on actions, not documentation
Pinpoint bottlenecks and best practices free of bias and surface patterns to boost care quality and patient safety
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36m
Save an average 36 overtime minutes per Operating Room per month
Driving healthcare outcomes
with the most innovative teams
"
The data Apella generated shows valuable insights that have allowed for increased surgical volume in our operating rooms, helping us run our ORs more efficiently and enhance the overall patient experience."
Roberta Schwartz
Chief Innovation Officer
Houston Methodist Hospital System
Support your
entire surgical team
Automate operations so staff can focus on what they do best.
OR Leaders
Drive results with better data. Track key metrics, spot inefficiencies, and take action to make process improvements with confidence.
Charge Nurses
No more walking to rooms to check status. Access live command center visibility across your ORs to spot delays early and keep the day on track.
Physicians
Apella predicts a surgeon’s day with greater accuracy than any EHR schedule alone, helping reduce wait times and optimize case load.
Pre-Op and Post-Op
Stay ahead of schedule. Apella provides real-time case updates so you can prep and recover patients efficiently without last-minute surprises.
Schedulers
Build smarter schedules. Apella surfaces patterns and reduces back-and-forth so cases and open time are set with an eye towards block optimization and max OR capacity.
Turnover Staff
Anticipate turnover needs with real-time updates on case progress and room status changes to plan ahead on staffing and reduce coordination issues.
Stay on the cutting edge
with expert guidance
Frequently asked questions
What is ambient AI in the operating room?
Ambient AI refers to sensors and software — typically ceiling-mounted cameras with microphones, paired with machine learning — that passively observe an environment, like a hospital operating room, and turn what they see into structured data, without requiring staff to manually log anything. Apella uses ambient AI and computer vision to automatically detect key perioperative events, such as patient entry, anesthesia induction, and procedure start and end, and can write that data directly into the EHR in real time.
What is Apella?
Apella is an operating room intelligence platform built on ambient AI. It combines computer vision, artificial intelligence, and EHR data to automatically detect key perioperative events without staff logging anything. That data gives hospitals real-time visibility into every OR, more accurate schedules, and analytics to improve performance over time. Hospitals use Apella to predict case durations, forecast delays, and surface the bottlenecks that limit surgical capacity.
Who in the hospital uses Apella?
Apella supports the full care team — from perioperative nurses to surgeons and anesthesiologists to OR managers to executives to schedulers — with real-time insights that keep surgical days running smoothly. Apella improves coordination by providing ground-truth operational event and phase data, trustworthy case duration forecasts, and a live view of multiple ORs in a single view.
Does Apella replace clinical staff with AI?
No. Apella is designed to remove manual, repetitive documentation and status-checking tasks so surgical teams can focus on patient care. Ambient AI does not replace clinical judgment or staff. Charge nurses, surgeons, and perioperative leaders still make the decisions — Apella gives them real-time, trustworthy data to make those decisions faster and with greater confidence and coordination.
What kind of ROI can a hospital expect from an OR optimization platform like Apella?
Hospitals have reported up to a 15x return on investment from deploying Apella, driven primarily by additional case capacity captured from existing OR time rather than new rooms, added staff, or later days. Actual ROI varies by case mix, OR utilization baseline, and how completely a health system adopts the real-time data into scheduling and staffing decisions.