Surgical Status Verification

Confirm | Track | Escalate

Surgical Verification Economics

Scheduled does not mean verified.

1OR helps surgical teams verify every case before it reaches the operating room — reducing costly delays, vendor misses, missing equipment, and preventable cancellations.

Today's Surgical Schedule

Verification Status

3 at risk

Total Knee Arthroplasty

Verified

Vendor confirmed · implant tray confirmed · facility ready

Revision Hip

Action Needed

Missing vendor confirmation · equipment pending

Shoulder Arthroscopy

Verified

SSV complete · vendor not required · room ready

Spine Case

At Risk

Implant details incomplete · facility review needed

Verified Case Rate

82%

Avg. Verification Time

31h prior

Delay Risk Reduced

28%

Coordination Recovered

8+ hrs/wk

$46–$62

typical estimated OR value per minute in published literature

39.2%

first-case delay rate in one orthopedic study

8+ hrs/wk

manual vendor coordination burden in larger facilities

24h+

target window for fully verified cases

The problem

The gap between scheduled and verified is where OR value leaks.

Delayed Starts

Unverified equipment, vendor, implant, or room readiness can turn into costly day-of-surgery delays.

Preventable Cancellations

When readiness gaps are found too late, scheduled revenue becomes lost capacity. ClearPath helps prevent avoidable cancellations; Patient Swap helps recover slots that still cancel.

Coordination Labor

Facilities spend significant staff time notifying vendors, chasing confirmations, and manually checking readiness.

Manual Communication Burden

Schedulers, nurses, reps, and surgeons burn time across calls, texts, and emails that are hard to track or measure.

The 1OR approach

Turn every case into a verified case.

1OR creates a shared verification layer across the surgeon, facility, and vendor ecosystem — giving teams earlier visibility into which cases are ready, which are at risk, and what needs to happen before the day of surgery.

Verification path

Case scheduled

The procedure enters the 1OR readiness workflow.

Stakeholders aligned

Surgeon, facility, and vendor see the same case requirements.

Critical items verified

Vendor, implant, equipment, facility, and SSV status are confirmed.

Risk surfaced early

Unverified cases are escalated before they become day-of-surgery problems.

Baseline economics

Capture delay minutes, cancellation attribution, vendor timing, OR value, labor hours, and communication burden.

Verify readiness

Track vendor confirmation, case requirements, equipment, implant details, and SSV completion.

Surface risk early

Flag unverified cases before they become day-of-surgery problems.

Measure value protected

Quantify reduction in delays, ClearPath cancellation recovery, Patient Swap recovery, and staff time recovered.

Measure your Surgical Verification Economics.

1OR pilots quantify the economic impact of unverified surgical workflows — delay recovery, preventable cancellation recovery, Patient Swap schedule recovery, vendor readiness, Labor Coordination Value, and verified case rate.

References & assumptions

Default values are illustrative and should be replaced with facility-specific baseline data. OR value per minute, delay frequency, cancellation rates, case revenue, labor cost, and recovery targets vary by facility, specialty, payer mix, and care setting.