Author

Kelsey Wolstencroft

Sr. Product Designer

As Senior Product Designer at Apella, Kelsey leads design efforts that help surgical teams make smarter, more data-informed decisions about OR scheduling and utilization. She partners closely with OR leaders and schedulers to develop product experiences that reflect real-world clinical workflows, leveraging user research and testing to guide key design choices. Her work ensures that advanced technologies like ambient sensing and AI are applied in ways that are intuitive, clinically relevant, and easy for care teams to trust and adopt.

Articles by Kelsey Wolstencroft

What Hospitals Get Wrong about OR Scheduling

The barriers to accurate OR scheduling aren’t due to a lack of effort — they’re built into the structure of today’s systems. Even highly experienced teams with modern EHRs still struggle with prediction accuracy.