Personal Assistants and Secretarys

In private practice, a busy surgeon will normally have their Personal Assistant or Secretary organise their lists. This includes organising equipment, ensuring the patient has adequate private health insurance, and then organising the team that will attend the case or list. A lot of this can be a simple protocol (i.e. emailing device providers and hospital admission staff).

The time consuming part is organising the human element. Did you know that a PA or Secretary will spend up to 2 HOURS organising your team per list. We have surveyed surgical and procedurals practices over the last year, and have found that one of the biggest time wasters for your PA or secretary, is the be on the phone calling anaesthetists and surgical assistants, trying to ensure that they are available to attend your list. There can be errors in this process, resulting in people not showing up, or hearing the instructions incorrectly.

OpAlert is designed to remove these issues for you. With the ability to upload your list within 20 seconds, you will find that you have full control over the details of when you are starting your list, how many cases on there, and where it is, and you can even leave specific notes for your anaesthetist. Once your team is confirmed, OpAlert will provide you with your anaesthetists phone number and vice versa, to ensure that you can freely communicate about the list details.

If you are used to your PA or secretary organising your surgical lists for you, you can give them your login details, and they can do it all for you! Imagine freeing up their time, from 2 HOURS to 20 seconds. That leaves more time for typing, patient marketing, patient phone calls and more. We feel that this is an efficiency no brainer. And the best part is that its free for you to use.