Operating room throughput is a crucial financial interest for any hospital group  Consider the math:  if a hospital group has, say, 50 OR’s, and can add one more procedure from workflow optimization per day, for, say 200 days a year, and it earns $3k per procedure, the increased annual revenue is $30m.  Thus, for planning greater throughput, Presbyterian Hospital (Charlotte, NC, part of the Novant group ) is building full scale OR mock ups to optimize design.         MORE