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Here are eight ways operating room staff and physicians can take advantage of data on their OR's efficiency to make meaningful, positive changes.

Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Memorial Health Care System has opened a new hybrid operating room, according to a Times Free Press report.

The following eight responses address the metrics operating rooms should use to measure efficiency and how often these measurements should be captured.  

Baton Rouge General Medical Center is planning an expansion project totaling $40 million that includes four new operating rooms, according to a hospital news release.

Operating room heating, ventilation and air conditioning setback strategies can yield significant savings, according to a monograph by the American Society for Healthcare Engineering.

Anesthesiologists are sometimes called the "lone wolves" of surgery. Often, these physicians work solo in the operating room and exist on the periphery of the ordinarily close-knit professional circles of surgeons and nurses. However, that doesn't have to be the…

The Jack C. Montgomery VA Medical Center in Muskogee, Okla., had a grand reopening of its remodeled surgery suite yesterday, according to a hospital news release.

Ten experts explain what they believe is the one behavior that most impedes OR efficiency.

Valley Baptist-Brownsville (Texas) has completed construction of four new surgery suites, according to a hospital news release (pdf).

Surgeons, nurses and medical students are getting trained on new surgical tools and procedures in an 85-foot tractor trailer that drives to hospitals, saving the physicians and students from needing to travel, according to a WTNH report.