Author
Radhika Charlap
Director of Product Marketing
Radhika Charlap is Director of Product Marketing at Apella, where she leads messaging and go-to-market strategy for the company’s perioperative solutions. With 15 years of experience in B2B SaaS and healthcare, she specializes in translating complex workflow challenges into strategic insights that support adoption and growth. At Apella, her work centers on understanding the persistent pain points that impact OR efficiency, scheduling, and operations — and communicating how advanced technologies like ambient AI can help solve them.
Articles by Radhika Charlap
The Pilot Dilemma in Healthcare AI
The pilot approach can be slow and resource-intensive, and it places the burden of validation on the very leaders who are already juggling day-to-day operations. What's needed is a way to communicate insights that will resonate with executive leadership.
Vital Stats: The 60-Minute Gap Across a Single Health System
We analyzed lower extremity vascular surgeries across five hospitals over three years. The results showed wide variation and revealed exactly where the differences happen. This insight is the key to setting clear benchmarks, standardizing processes, and driving measurable gains in OR efficiency.
Vital Stats: Why FCOTS Isn’t Enough
Even though 88% of operating room days began on time, 44% still ended behind schedule. A first case that starts on time doesn’t guarantee an efficient day; once the schedule starts to slip, the rest of the day often follows. FCOTS isn’t the failsafe we think it is.
The New Foundation for Optimizing OR Scheduling (Hint: It’s Better Data)
By starting from data collected directly and automatically — without dependency on busy team me. bers whose primary focus is not documentation — every stakeholder is working from a shared, trusted source of truth.
Why OR Schedules Look Good on Paper but Fail in Practice
Inaccurate scheduling doesn’t impact just one case at a time — its impact creates cascading effects that compound throughout the entire day. Without trustworthy case durations, OR scheduling turns into a series of educated guesses, forcing teams to react to problems throughout the day rather than running the OR proactively and predictably.