{"id":3010,"date":"2020-12-18T07:22:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T20:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novarihealth.com.au\/?p=3010"},"modified":"2020-12-18T08:12:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T21:12:54","slug":"healthcare-spaces-elective-surgery-the-hidden-backlog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novarihealth.com.au\/healthcare-spaces-elective-surgery-the-hidden-backlog\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare Spaces: &#8220;Elective Surgery: The Hidden Backlog&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Managing large surgical backlogs are a challenge across Australia and New Zealand. Everyone understands that you <em>can\u2019t manage what you can\u2019t measure<\/em>. What ANZ hospitals lack is a surgical patient prioritization software solution to electronically connect the surgeon&#8217;s rooms with the hospitals, providing both with accurate and real-time data on the volume of patients in the queues. Our hospitals and healthcare systems are struggling. The Novari ATC electronic request for admission (eRFA), patient prioritization, wait list management, pre-op optimization and backlog analytics system is part of the answer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.novarihealth.com.au\/wait-list-management\/\">Learn more about Novari ATC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In their recent article Healthcare Spaces describes this challenge that Australia and New Zealand hospitals face. They write: &#8220;In October, reports in the media said hospital waiting lists had skyrocketed by up to 40% as a result of a ban on surgery during the initial stage of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>By June, there were more than\u00a0260,000 people waiting\u00a0for elective surgery in Australia\u2019s public hospitals, with those needing cataract surgery, hip and knee replacements and tonsillectomies facing some of the longest waits.<\/p>\n<p>In an\u00a0article in the Herald Sun, industry analyst Andrew Goodsall reported that a further 280,000 surgeries were estimated to have been deferred in the private sector, and said he predicts it will take almost two years to address the pre-pandemic backlog.<\/p>\n<p>As well as delays caused by bans, other effects of the pandemic have included capacity issues due to social distancing, and appointments being cancelled for fear of contracting Covid19. Some people have also moved away from private insurance, adding pressure on the public healthcare sector&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcare-spaces.com\/2020\/12\/02\/elective-surgery-the-hidden-backlog\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Managing large surgical backlogs are a challenge across Australia and New Zealand. Everyone understands that you can\u2019t manage what you can\u2019t measure. What ANZ hospitals lack is a surgical patient prioritization software solution to electronically connect the surgeon&#8217;s rooms with the hospitals, providing both with accurate and real-time data on the volume of patients&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Healthcare Spaces: &quot;Elective Surgery: The Hidden Backlog&quot; - Novari Health<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In their recent article Healthcare Spaces depicts the growing issue that Australia faces: elective surgery wait lists\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.novarihealth.com.au\/healthcare-spaces-elective-surgery-the-hidden-backlog\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Healthcare Spaces: &quot;Elective Surgery: The Hidden Backlog&quot; - 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