brightanalytics™ for Surgical Services


brightanalytics™ for Surgical Services is a perioperative performance improvement service that is a blend of data analytics, operations know-how, benchmarking and hands-on implementation. It is a culmination of two decades of development, hard earned lessons and long list of success stories.

The core of brightanalytics™ is the cutting-edge, turn-key analytics platform, systematically blending disparate sources of hospital data to deliver highly accurate, actionable analysis. This proprietary analysis is combined with our powerful continuous improvement process developed by brighthospital.

brighthospital methodology iterates through Baseline Measurement, Project Selection, Analytics Development, Implementation, Communication, and Continuous Monitoring and Adjustments phases in rapid succession to create lasting change:


  • Analytics: Complete, turn-key analytics that document baseline, help identify opportunities, provides all the analytics necessary for performance improvement, enables communication with all stakeholders, including surgeons, anesthesiologists, staff and administration and provides continuous monitoring.
  • Project Selection: Proven performance improvement templates for all identified projects.
  • Implementation: On-site implementation assistance, ranging from full project management to attending critical meetings.
  • Communication: Individualized communications to all stakeholders, customized surgeon / surgeon group report cards.
  • Continuous Monitoring: Goal and benchmark tracking to maintain the improvements that are attained.
Typical brightanalytics™ projects include:
  • Block Management: Brighthospital’s Block Management Program is a unique and comprehensive service that step-by-step guides a hospital through the complicated and political block management process. Brighthospital manages every detail of the analysis, including block updates, room closures and releases, ensuring accurate block reporting down to the minute, defendable in front of the toughest surgeon groups. Brighthospital also provides all necessary charters, policies, procedures and participates at all critical meetings to ensure successful implementation. Finally, provides individualized surgeon communication to all block owners. This proven services has been developed over 15 years, been implemented in dozens of hospitals ranging from urban teaching hospitals to rural ambulatory surgery centers and has contributed millions of dollars to hospitals’ bottom lines.
  • Costing / Profitability Analysis: Costing is a complicated project for any hospital. Brighthospital works with hospitals to gather all the accurate data elements from purchasing, materials management, OR, HIM, and other functions under one roof to provide the most accurate cost and profit analysis for the hospital possible. This might range from charge and charge capture analysis to full activity based costing and profitability analysis.
  • Staffing Optimization: Right-sizing OR staffing is critical for any ORs success. Brighthospital evaluates staffing levels at every level, based on current standards, evaluates shift patterns, develops new shift patterns based on current and desired usage, minimizing overtime.
  • Inpatient Capacity Smoothing: This project specifically looks at the impact of surgical services on inpatient bed and unit utilization and creates a model where hospitals can perform what-if analysis on how the bed needs can be optimized. Combined with the Block Management Program, hospitals can implement the ideal and predictable block schedule that optimizes inpatient bed usage.
  • Surgeon Productivity Improvement: This unique project looks at how the hospital’s operations effect and utilize surgeons’ own time. The project plan focuses on areas such as scheduling practices, case duration analysis, turnover time and during the day delays and measures the effects of tactics such as surgeons using multiple rooms. It aims to increase surgeon productivity without compromising optimal OR utilization.
  • Tray Utilization and Smoothing: In certain hospitals, tray utilization is one of the critical causes for delays. This project reviews at scheduling patterns and their effect on tray usage on any specific day of week and time of day. By combining this review with Block Management Program, hospitals can optimize tray usage, reduce the need to purchase additional trays, reduce congestion on their central sterile, and minimize flash sterilization.

brightanalytics™ for Surgical Services is not limited to only these projects. In-depth analysis of the perioperative environment reveals unique aspects of the individual hospital. Once the “pain points” are identified and reviewed, customized performance improvement projects that are appropriate to the needs of the hospital can prepared be implemented.

brightanalytics™ for Surgical Services is the only turnkey performance improvement solution on the market today. ORs do not need be black boxes. OR Directors do not neet to be ultimate fire-fighters. With brightanalytics™ for Surgical Services, ORs can be proactively managed, with clear and actionable information, using proven methodologies.