Author
Kate Lipman
Marketing Specialist
As Marketing Manager at Apella, Kate works closely with clinical and customer-facing teams to spotlight the challenges surgical teams face and how Apella helps solve them. Kate ensures that hospital leaders, surgeons, and staff understand the value of real-time OR intelligence, from reducing delays to improving outcomes. Her work helps ensure that the impact of Apella’s solutions is seen, shared, and scaled across surgical teams.
Articles by Kate Lipman
Calculating How Many More Cases Your ORs Could Run
Estimate your hospital's opportunity to increase surgical access and capacity with operating room intelligence — but without adding ORs, staff, or hours.
Autonomy Through Awareness: How Apella Empowers Surgeons
A surgeon’s day isn’t defined by the time spent operating. It’s shaped by everything that happens in between. By removing manual calls, texts, and follow-ups, Apella reduces miscommunication and assumptions. Teams spend less time coordinating and more time moving cases forward.
Vital Stats: Why OR Schedules Keep Missing the Mark
Perioperative teams spend hours building schedules to balance block time, staff availability, and patient needs. Yet over- and underscheduled cases continue to wreak havoc on daily operations.
Vital Stats: Why EHRs Are Too Slow for the OR
An analysis of tens of thousands of cases showed that the average delay in recording wheels-in in the OR is 19 minutes. Wheels-out is even more delayed, by an average of 20 minutes. Multiply that by as many as 10 surgeries per OR per day across dozens of ORs, and the lost time adds up fast.
It Takes a Team: The People Powering AI Implementation in the Operating Room
Implementation of AI in the OR is an organizational transformation. At the heart of that transformation is a diverse, cross-disciplinary team. Each stakeholder brings a different lens and, with clear communication and purpose, implementation becomes not just possible, but successful.
Navigating the OR: What Waze Can Teach Us About Surgical Efficiency
What driving apps like Waze have done for traffic, modern OR management platforms powered by AI can now do for the operating room. By collecting real-time data from across the perioperative ecosystem, surgical teams gain something they’ve never had before: situational awareness, live and in context, plus the power to make intelligent, informed, unbiased, and realistic predictions.
Keeping ORs on Time: Why FCOTS Don’t Tell the Full Story
Although FCOTS provide a helpful baseline for whether the average day starts on time, hospitals need a more comprehensive approach to OR efficiency.