®
OR Benchmarks Collaborative
Benefits
– Helps optimize overall
financial, operational and
clinical performance
– Provides actionable insight
into the greatest areas
of opportunity
– Empowers OR directors
to have meaningful,
fact-based interactions
with senior management,
caregivers and OR staff
regarding performance and
improvement opportunities
– Offers networking
opportunities to share
best practices with a
very large community
of subscribers
– Minimizes the cost of
collecting and analyzing
throughput and capacity
metrics
– Offers an easy to use and
fast to implement solution
at great value
Successful management of the
operating room (OR) is a continual
balancing act — shrinking
reimbursements with rising costs,
garnering surgeon loyalty while
managing expenditures, improving
operational efficiency while focusing
on patient safety. Because the OR
accounts for as much as 68% of a
hospital’s revenue, and capacity is a
top priority for most, balance is crucial.
To help hospitals manage capacity
demands efficiently and safely,
McKesson and OR Manager, Inc.
formed The OR Benchmarks®
Collaborative (ORBC), an automated
benchmarking service designed
specifically for surgery. Utilizing Web-
enabled technology that does not
require the purchase or installation
of any software, subscribers can:
Beyond the scorecard, each KPI is further assessable by 20 additional
data points using the true point-and-click technology.
– Assess OR performance by comparing
it against a statistically significant
database with approximately
400 subscribers and 4 million active
case records
– Uncover actionable insight into
performance improvement
opportunities through user-friendly,
drill-down analysis
– Report and share OR performance
and operational trends in a three-
dimensional fashion to support
aligning goals and outcomes
The Power to Measure
Performance
The OR Benchmarks Collaborative
provides monthly trended data on
multiple key performance indicators
(KPIs) focusing on capacity and quality.
ORBC is vendor neutral. Subscribers
Fast Facts
– A collaboration between
McKesson and OR Manager,
Inc. created to empower
organizations to improve
OR throughput and capacity
– The industry’s largest OR
benchmarking service with
almost 400 subscribers and
4 million cases that allows
multiple self-selected peer
comparisons
– A Web-based service providing
timely monthly reporting
on key surgery performance
indicators — with no require-
ment that subscribing organiza-
tions have a McKesson or any
other surgery information
system
– Standard subscription includes
experienced business advisors
who expedite the set up
process and provide valuable
analytics coaching
OR Manager, Inc
P.O. Box 5303
Santa Fe, NM 87502
upload case data from their surgery
system or simple Mirosoft® Excel®
spreadsheet if an information system
is not used; ORBC standardizes it,
returning uniform metrics. The online
dashboard (see front page) offers
many options for generating and
sharing data based upon a variety
of factors (e.g., anesthesia, block
utilization, procedure, surgeon,
service, etc.).
While most surgery information
systems offer similar reporting
capabilities, custom and standard
report queries are often cumbersome
and time/labor intensive netting
a one-dimensional report, which is
limited in its ability to share through
traditional paper mediums. Any
ORBC user can develop custom
reports in a dynamic fashion without
complicated report writer skills and
share them across constituents in
a multitude of modern techniques,
including a live database that is
agile enough to address queries
instantaneously.
The Power to Perform
One of the largest consortiums of
OR decision-makers, the ORBC
allows subscribers to:
– Drill into their data with minimal
effort or expertise
– Use point-and-click functionality
to explore, isolate and address
root causes of poor performance
– Establish evidence-based
performance goals that are
realistic and achievable through
statistically significant peer
comparison and detailed analysis
enabled within the tool
– Participate in routine networking
via user conferences, virtual
quarterly best practice networking
forums, continuing education
events, design forums and surveys
As a subscriber, you can take advantage
of what many others already have. As
the director of surgery of the facility
receiving the prestigious 2007 Overall
Best Performer Award states, “Finally
having the substantive data necessary
to drive change so easily at our
fingertips was the tipping point in
being able to put solutions to work
that have been embraced by all.”
Participation in the OR Benchmarks
Collaborative is by annual subscription.
– Minimal effort and time commitment
are required from the subscriber side
– Access to an online, interactive
dashboard comparing current
performance to historical
performance and self-selected
peer groups
– Optional business advisor services
by a staff of senior clinical/business
managers who can support facility
efforts ranging from super-user
training to coaching and insight
into performance management
strategies specific to the organization.

http://www.ormanager.com For More Information

1.800.442.9918
McKesson Provider Technologies
5995 Windward Parkway
Alpharetta, GA 30005
http://www.mckesson.com
For more information on the OR Benchmarks Collaborative solution, go to
http://www.orbenchmarking.com.
Copyright © 2009 McKesson Corporation and/or one of its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. McKesson Performance
Benchmarks is a trademark of McKesson Information Solutions LLC. The OR Benchmarks Collaborative is a
partnership of OR Manager, Inc., and McKesson. OR Benchmarks is a registered trademark of OR Manager, Inc.
U.S. Registration No. 2,191,654. All other product or company names mentioned may be trademarks, service
marks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. RMG102-04/09