Why is improving turnover time such a challenge? It starts with collecting accurate, contextual data to pinpoint delays and address critical bottlenecks. Apella's AI-powered computer vision platform automatically captures a detailed, real-time timeline of key activities during turnovers, giving OR staff unprecedented visibility into every stage of the turnover process. With actionable insights, hospitals can transform turnover strategies into data-driven, outcome-focused solutions.

Historically, OR managers have prescribed three strategies to improve and speed up turnovers: the extra bodies solution, the pit crew solution, and the vertical integration solution. Because of the poor outcomes and, often, worse problems that result from some of the legacy approaches to improving OR turnover time, there’s still a need for new solutions. In addition to there typically being too little budget and too little time to address turnover inefficiencies, there has historically also been way too few metrics to develop meaningful guidance on what to improve and how.

Turnovers present a complicated dependency between operations and logistics. Because the next case cannot start until the breakdown and cleanup from the last one has been completed, the entire downstream schedule is affected by the efficiency of not only one turnover, but compounded by each subsequent turnover’s speed and timeliness.

Tampa General Hospital announced the launch of Apella, a technology platform that leverages AI to provide data and insights that enhance safety, increase efficiency and elevate the patient experience in the operating room.

Apella, a health technology company, today announced the addition of Kevin Sowers, president of the Johns Hopkins Health System and executive vice president of Johns Hopkins Medicine, to their Board of Directors.

Apella, a health technology company, today announced an expanded collaboration to implement the company’s technology in all operating rooms across Houston Methodist

Apella is thrilled to partner with Houston Methodist to digitize the operating room.

Funding to support development and deployment of AI technology platform for surgery

We are entering the third era of significant surgical innovation as data products begin to proliferate the operating room.

Apella is about generating new data. And through that new data, we are transforming healthcare by helping medical professionals to be the best version of themselves and improving the quality of care for patients.

Our goal is to liberate surgeons and staff, ultimately helping them do what they set out to do every day: provide excellent patient care.

Every day, surgeons and hospital staff come together to improve, or even save, patients’ lives.