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## Homepage

- [Apella](/content/site-root.html): Transform your OR with Apella’s AI-powered surgical operations platform (601 words)

## Articles & Blog Posts

- [Operating Room Efficiency with Ambient Intelligence: Lessons from the OR Manager Conference](/content/blog/operating-room-efficiency-with-ambient-intelligence-lessons-from-the-or-manager-conference.html): At this year’s OR Manager conference, three perioperative leaders hosted a panel discussion about how they’ve used AI to transform their OR efficiency and heighten their surgical teams’ success — not by replacing human decision-making, but by making it sharper, faster, and fairer. (1,910 words)
- [Exploring the OR Status Camera Landscape: Stryker, Karl Storz, SST OR Black Box, Artisight, Proximie, and Apella](/content/blog/exploring-the-or-status-camera-landscape-stryker-karl-storz-sst-or-black-box-artisight-proximie-and-apella.html): Understanding the status camera landscape is essential to hospitals modernizing their OR operations and looking to optimize their perioperative workflows. This post outlines the basics of a few leading OR status camera vendors, with an overview of each, along with their core strengths and weaknesses. (2,418 words)
- [How to Make Your OR Turnover Strategy the Most Effective](/content/blog/how-to-make-your-or-turnover-strategy-the-most-effective.html): Why is improving turnover time such a challenge? It starts with collecting accurate, contextual data to pinpoint delays and address critical bottlenecks. Apella's AI-powered computer vision platform automatically captures a detailed, real-time timeline of key activities during turnovers, giving OR staff unprecedented visibility into every stage of the turnover process. With actionable insights, hospitals can transform turnover strategies into data-driven, outcome-focused solutions. (1,457 words)
- [Keeping ORs on Time: Why FCOTS Don’t Tell the Full Story](/content/blog/keeping-ors-on-time-why-fcots-dont-tell-the-full-story.html): Although FCOTS provide a helpful baseline for whether the average day starts on time, hospitals need a more comprehensive approach to OR efficiency. (778 words)
- [It Takes a Team: The People Powering AI Implementation in the Operating Room](/content/blog/it-takes-a-team-the-people-powering-ai-implementation-in-the-operating-room.html): Implementation of AI in the OR is an organizational transformation. At the heart of that transformation is a diverse, cross-disciplinary team. Each stakeholder brings a different lens and, with clear communication and purpose, implementation becomes not just possible, but successful. (1,088 words)
- [Exploring the OR Schedule Optimization Landscape: LeanTaaS, Qventus, Epic OR Marketplace, and Apella](/content/blog/exploring-the-or-schedule-optimization-landscape-leantaas-qventus-epic-or-marketplace-and-apella.html): This post outlines the basics of a few leading vendors in the OR scheduling optimization landscape, offering an easy-to-understand overview of each, along with their core strengths and weaknesses. (1,370 words)
- [Vital Stats: The Hidden Cost of OR Downtime](/content/blog/vital-stats-the-hidden-cost-of-or-downtime/index.html): Hospitals can’t afford to lose half of their OR time to downtime. Once teams gain visibility into where the time is going, they can take control and take action. This leads to faster turnovers, more cases, and less overtime. (516 words)
- [A Brief History of OR Turnover Solutions (and Their Shortcomings)](/content/blog/a-brief-history-of-or-turnover-solutions-and-their-shortcomings.html): Historically, OR managers have prescribed three strategies to improve and speed up turnovers: the extra bodies solution, the pit crew solution, and the vertical integration solution. Because of the poor outcomes and, often, worse problems that result from some of the legacy approaches to improving OR turnover time, there’s still a need for new solutions. In addition to there typically being too little budget and too little time to address turnover inefficiencies, there has historically also been way too few metrics to develop meaningful guidance on what to improve and how. (1,349 words)
- [How Ambient AI Prevents Case and Turnover Delays in the OR](/content/blog/how-ambient-ai-prevents-case-and-turnover-delays-in-the-or.html): When a phase starts to run longer than expected, an alert appears while there is still time to act. Instead of reacting after delays have already impacted the day, teams can intervene while there’s still an opportunity to contain unplanned late time. (687 words)
- [Navigating the OR: What Waze Can Teach Us About Surgical Efficiency](/content/blog/navigating-the-or-what-waze-can-teach-us-about-surgical-efficiency.html): What driving apps like Waze have done for traffic, modern OR management platforms powered by AI can now do for the operating room. By collecting real-time data from across the perioperative ecosystem, surgical teams gain something they’ve never had before: situational awareness, live and in context, plus the power to make intelligent, informed, unbiased, and realistic predictions. (673 words)
- [How Slow Turnovers Wreak Havoc in the Surgical Theater and Stage](/content/blog/how-slow-turnovers-wreak-havoc-in-the-surgical-theater-and-stage.html): Turnovers present a complicated dependency between operations and logistics. Because the next case cannot start until the breakdown and cleanup from the last one has been completed, the entire downstream schedule is affected by the efficiency of not only one turnover, but compounded by each subsequent turnover’s speed and timeliness. (1,218 words)
- [Planning for AI Implementation in the Operating Room’s Physical Infrastructure](/content/blog/planning-for-ai-implementation-in-the-operating-rooms-physical-infrastructure.html): While AI is associated with software and data, rollout in clinical environments starts with physical installation of devices like sensors or cameras. Strong project leadership, clear expectations, and early alignment across stakeholders are essential to ensuring a smooth and successful process. (942 words)
- [Tampa General Transforms OR Safety and Efficiency with AI-Powered Insights](/content/blog/tampa-general-hospital-transforms-operating-room-safety-and-efficiency-with-artificial-intelligence-powered-insights.html): Tampa General Hospital announced the launch of Apella, a technology platform that leverages AI to provide data and insights that enhance safety, increase efficiency and elevate the patient experience in the operating room. (730 words)
- [Apella's Ambient AI Was Independently Peer-Reviewed; Here's What the Research Found](/content/blog/apellas-ambient-ai-was-independently-peer-reviewed-heres-what-the-research-found.html): A peer-reviewed BMJ Health & Care Informatics study, across more than 100,000 surgical cases, demonstrates what decision-grade ambient AI looks like when performance, validation, and scale are rigorously measured. (743 words)
- [How Houston Methodist Improved Scheduling Accuracy to Cut Late OR Days in Half](/content/blog/how-houston-methodist-improved-scheduling-accuracy-to-cut-late-or-days-in-half.html): Within just two months of piloting Apella's Flagged Cases tool, Houston Methodist improved scheduling accuracy to make much better use of existing OR capacity and reduce late OR days by an unprecedented 46 percentage points. (612 words)
- [From Reacting to Preempting: Rethinking How ORs Handle Delays](/content/blog/from-reacting-to-preempting-rethinking-how-ors-handle-delays.html): To understand the operational impact of proactive delay intervention, Apella analyzed phase-level delay durations across a subset of its customers (nearly 250 operating rooms) before and after the introduction of Delay Alerts. (1,019 words)
- [The New Foundation for Optimizing OR Scheduling (Hint: It’s Better Data)](/content/blog/the-new-foundation-for-optimizing-or-scheduling-hint-its-better-data.html): By starting from data collected directly and automatically — without dependency on busy team me. bers whose primary focus is not documentation — every stakeholder is working from a shared, trusted source of truth. (732 words)
- [Vital Stats: Why FCOTS Isn’t Enough](/content/blog/vital-stats-why-fcots-isnt-enough/index.html): Even though 88% of operating room days began on time, 44% still ended behind schedule. A first case that starts on time doesn’t guarantee an efficient day; once the schedule starts to slip, the rest of the day often follows. FCOTS isn’t the failsafe we think it is. (403 words)
- [The Pilot Dilemma in Healthcare AI](/content/blog/the-pilot-dilemma-in-healthcare-ai/index.html): The pilot approach can be slow and resource-intensive, and it places the burden of validation on the very leaders who are already juggling day-to-day operations. What's needed is a way to communicate insights that will resonate with executive leadership. (727 words)
- [Calculating How Many More Cases Your ORs Could Run](/content/blog/calculating-how-many-more-cases-your-ors-could-run/index.html): Estimate your hospital's opportunity to increase surgical access and capacity with operating room intelligence — but without adding ORs, staff, or hours. (745 words)
- [Apella - Optimize Capacity](/content/use-cases/optimize-capacity/index.html): Optimizing OR capacity takes more than better math. Apella ensures case scheduling and resource utilization are always built on the right data foundation. (259 words)
- [Technology for Better Surgery](/content/blog/technology-for-better-surgery/index.html): Every day, surgeons and hospital staff come together to improve, or even save, patients’ lives. (646 words)
- [Surgery Enters A Third Era of Innovation](/content/blog/surgery-enters-a-third-era-of-innovation/index.html): We are entering the third era of significant surgical innovation as data products begin to proliferate the operating room. (643 words)
- [Maximize Every OR Minute with Apella Horizon](/content/blog/maximize-every-or-minute-with-apella-horizon/index.html): Apella Horizon is a capacity optimization solution that helps hospitals improve utilization and simplify workflows. Apella brings together scheduling, day-of coordination, and performance analytics in a single, connected system powered by a trusted real-time data foundation. (763 words)
- [Key Insights from ViVE and HIMSS 2026](/content/blog/key-insights-from-vive-and-himss-2026/index.html): Systems of record in the operational and workflow domains still need significant improvement, particularly in transforming unstructured data into structured, usable formats. The organizations that succeed will be those that can deliver high-quality data as a foundational layer. (517 words)
- [Vital Stats: Why EHRs Are Too Slow for the OR](/content/blog/vital-stats-why-ehrs-are-too-slow-for-the-or/index.html): An analysis of tens of thousands of cases showed that the average delay in recording wheels-in in the OR is 19 minutes. Wheels-out is even more delayed, by an average of 20 minutes. Multiply that by as many as 10 surgeries per OR per day across dozens of ORs, and the lost time adds up fast. (468 words)
- [Derisking Hospital AI Tool Selection: Look for Demonstrated Outcomes at Scale](/content/blog/derisking-hospital-ai-tool-selection-look-for-demonstrated-outcomes-at-scale.html): Analysis across hospitals finds that Apella’s ambient OR intelligence platform is associated with an average increase of two cases per OR per month. (665 words)
- [Vital Stats: The 60-Minute Gap Across a Single Health System](/content/blog/vital-stats-the-60-minute-gap-across-a-single-health-system.html): We analyzed lower extremity vascular surgeries across five hospitals over three years.‍ The results showed wide variation and revealed exactly where the differences happen. This insight is the key to setting clear benchmarks, standardizing processes, and driving measurable gains in OR efficiency. (497 words)
- [Apella - Blog](/content/blog/index.html): Keep up to date with the latest insights and content about surgical operations and OR efficiency. Learn tricks of the trade and read about best practices from leaders at some of the most innovative health systems in the country. (588 words)
- [Apella is a Once in a Career Opportunity](/content/blog/apella-is-a-once-in-a-career-opportunity/index.html): Our goal is to liberate surgeons and staff, ultimately helping them do what they set out to do every day: provide excellent patient care. (620 words)
- [Extending Ambient Intelligence from the Patient Room to the OR](/content/blog/extending-ambient-intelligence-from-the-patient-room-to-the-or.html): AvaSure and Apella partner to deliver purpose-built ambient intelligence across the enterprise – helping hospitals avoid the compromises of one-size-fits-all platforms. (625 words)
- [EHR Integration for AI Tools: What to Expect and How to Plan](/content/blog/ehr-integration-for-ai-tools-what-to-expect-and-how-to-plan.html): Effectively integrating with your EHR is key to achieving the surgical performance and patient outcome improvements envisioned by the adoption of AI and machine learning tools. While it takes time and coordination, the benefits are worth the effort. (915 words)
- [How Tampa General Identified 56 Hours of Capacity Per Week Through Block Analysis](/content/blog/how-tampa-general-identified-56-hours-of-capacity-per-week-through-block-analysis.html): Apella provided TGH a day-by-day view of current utilization and forecasted demand. For each block, the team forecasted the hours truly needed to meet expected case volume based on historical patterns, then compared those hours to current allocations to find untapped capacity and schedule more cases. (600 words)
- [Apella's Vision for 2026 and Beyond](/content/blog/apellas-vision-for-2026-and-beyond/index.html): When you scale to enterprise deployment, the dynamic changes. You’re no longer working with people who feel it’s their job to give you feedback. You’re working with people who expect it’s your job to make their lives better and solve the problems they face every day. (673 words)
- [Apella Uses Data for Good](/content/blog/data-for-good/index.html): Apella is about generating new data. And through that new data, we are transforming healthcare by helping medical professionals to be the best version of themselves and improving the quality of care for patients. (693 words)
- [Autonomy Through Awareness: How Apella Empowers Surgeons](/content/blog/autonomy-through-awareness-how-apella-empowers-surgeons.html): A surgeon’s day isn’t defined by the time spent operating. It’s shaped by everything that happens in between. By removing manual calls, texts, and follow-ups, Apella reduces miscommunication and assumptions. Teams spend less time coordinating and more time moving cases forward. (495 words)
- [5 Key Questions to Ask When Evaluating Ambient AI for Your Hospital](/content/blog/5-key-questions-to-ask-when-evaluating-ambient-ai-for-your-hospital.html): As ambient AI becomes foundational to hospital operations, choosing the right solution requires more than a demo. This executive checklist outlines what to ask about model quality, validation, and performance at scale so you can select technology that drives measurable impact with confidence. (753 words)
- [Innovation Requires Partnership](/content/blog/innovation-requires-partnership/index.html): Apella is thrilled to partner with Houston Methodist to digitize the operating room. (224 words)
- [Beyond the First Case: Metrics that Matter More than FCOTS](/content/blog/beyond-the-first-case-metrics-that-matter-more-than-fcots.html): To improve performance, hospitals must build on FCOTS with metrics that capture the full rhythm of the day, including end-of-day performance, case duration accuracy, and all-case on-time starts. (429 words)
- [Apella Welcomes Kevin Sowers to Board of Directors](/content/blog/apella-welcomes-kevin-sowers-to-board-of-directors/index.html): Apella, a health technology company, today announced the addition of Kevin Sowers, president of the Johns Hopkins Health System and executive vice president of Johns Hopkins Medicine, to their Board of Directors. (425 words)
- [Apella Recognized with 2025 MedTech Breakthrough Health Innovation Award](/content/blog/apella-won-medtech-breakthroughs-health-innovation-award.html): We’re thrilled Apella’s platform for operating room management was just recognized with the 2025 MedTech Breakthrough Health Administration Innovation Award. This honor celebrates the companies delivering exceptional solutions, and it’s a testament to everything our team and partners across the country are doing to transform perioperative workflows and increase patient access to quality healthcare. (572 words)
- [Apella Announces $21 Million Series A Funding to Digitize the Operating Room](/content/blog/apella-announces-21-million-series-a-funding-to-digitize-the-operating-room.html): Funding to support development and deployment of AI technology platform for surgery (370 words)
- [Apella Named to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies List](/content/blog/apella-named-to-fast-companys-most-innovative-companies-list.html): Apella announced that it was named to Fast Company’s prestigious list of the Most Innovative Companies of 2025 in the healthcare category. The list shines a spotlight on organizations that are shaping industry and culture through their vision and leadership. (373 words)
- [Apella Raises $80 Million in Series B to Transform the Hospital with Ambient AI and Computer Vision](/content/blog/apella-raises-80-million-in-series-b-to-transform-the-hospital-with-ambient-ai-and-computer-vision.html): Ambient AI is transforming healthcare. By applying this technology to the most critical part of the health system, the operating room, Apella's customers are unlocking additional capacity to serve more patients, faster, at enterprise scale.” (498 words)
- [Houston Methodist Expands Collaboration With Apella to All Operating Rooms](/content/blog/houston-methodist-expands-collaboration-with-apella-to-all-operating-rooms.html): Apella, a health technology company, today announced an expanded collaboration to implement the company’s technology in all operating rooms across Houston Methodist (334 words)
- [Apella - Prevent Delays](/content/use-cases/prevent-delays/index.html): Prevent OR delays and reduce overtime with Apella. Our AI-powered platform provides real-time visibility, predictive scheduling, and live OR tracking to help surgical teams make smarter, faster decisions. (233 words)
- [Apella - Track Performance](/content/use-cases/track-performance/index.html): You can’t fix what you can’t measure. Apella delivers the ground-truth data and insights hospitals need to diagnose the real causes of OR delays and take action to drive process improvements with confidence. (260 words)
- [Apella - Streamline Coordination](/content/use-cases/streamline-coordination/index.html): Delays and miscommunication waste valuable OR time. Apella keeps surgeons, anesthesiologists, and perioperative staff aligned with live updates they can trust, all day long. (263 words)
- [Apella - Improve Turnovers](/content/use-cases/improve-turnovers/index.html): When turnovers run long, delays can derail the schedule, frustrate surgeons, and strain staff. Apella equips you with real-time OR data and insights to track and improve turnovers, keeping everyone on the same page. Learn how Apella's ambient video intelligence helps surgical teams understand and optimize turnover efficiency. (229 words)

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