Novari ATC

The “Wait 2” Novari ATC module is widely used by hospitals and across health regions to improve OR utilization, enable better surgical wait list management and the paperless eBooking of cases from the physician offices to the hospital booking offices. In real time, Novari ATC complements and integrates with each hospitals’ surgical information system (Meditech, Cerner, Picis, SIS, etc.). Wait list management and case booking can be managed by either the physician office staff and/or hospital staff. Each physician office is provided with a colour coded wait list indicating the status of each patient on their list. The system allows the offices and the hospital to monitor long waiting patients and schedules accordingly. At the time of case scheduling, the physician offices send an electronic “scheduling request” to the booking office with all supporting electronic documents (i.e. consent form, etc.). In the absence of modern wait list software, physician offices or those responsible for managing wait lists often depend on unsecure and unencrypted spreadsheets, unique paper filing systems and other workarounds that are neither secure nor completely effective. The fastest way to improve chronic wait times is perhaps the easiest and most often overlooked – wait list management software.