Ask the Informatics Nurse

Whether you’re looking for ways to improve your outpatient surgery procedures or cut down on documentation burdens, our blog has you covered.

AI is revolutionizing perioperative nursing by boosting efficiency, patient care, and decision-making. Trust, accuracy, and empowerment are key to adoption, allowing AI to streamline workflows, automate tasks, and enhance surgical outcomes.

AI-driven documentation reduces nurse workload and improves OR efficiency by automating data capture, smart checklists, and EHR integration. AORN Syntegrity supports accurate, compliant documentation, helping nurses focus on patient care and advocacy.
At AORN Syntegrity, we know perioperative nursing informatics! Our operating room documentation and procedure list enhances your electronic health records (EHR) software, reducing the documentation burden and standardizing perioperative processes. This goes for the 800+ healthcare facilities who use AORN Syntegrity, from enterprise-level hospital groups to independent ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs).

Check this blog regularly for news and information that can help streamline your operating room management and staffing.

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In 2023, AORN Syntegrity awarded 39 perioperative nursing professionals with Professional Education Grants to attend Expo 2023. See how it all turned out.

If you or your perioperative team is experiencing deficiencies in interoperability, unconscious bias or documentation burden, you can access our free eBook and eLearning webinars via the Pfiedler online catalog for help.

Coding conditions and procedures is the best way to uniformly collect data. But too many codes can also lead to confusion. Find out how your OR team can enhance interoperability?

By streamlining the prior authorization process electronically, CMS believes providers will experience a reduction in documentation burden. Learn more.

Saving and improving the lives of patients will never be cheap. If saving money in the OR is something on your agenda, start by identifying why your OR is so expensive.

Today, data factors into healthcare more than ever before. Learn more about informatics nursing and how this growing field is shaping the way we operate in healthcare.

Most nurses want to be part of making a patient’s experience safer, less scary and more comfortable. AORN Syntegrity is ever striving to improve the nursing experience for operating room teams and patients alike.
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