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13 EXECUTIVE BRIEFING The Total Solution optimizes surgical workflow and improves medical device sterilization, organization and transportation by combining three cutting-edge components: the ONE TRAY® sealed sterilization container, the EZ-TRAX ™ modular instrument organizational tray, and the ONE CART ™ sealed case cart. By utilizing ONE TRAY® and EZ-TRAX ™ , you can increase the number of surgeries performed per day, optimize tray utilization, and prevent cancellations or delays. Whether you're moving within your healthcare facility or sending trays for offsite sterilization, ONE CART® ensures space saving, secure, and convenient transportation. Condoc 558 ASC cost data — a great place to start a value analysis When leveraging value analysis for a potential investment, the best place for ASCs to start is by capturing the cost data associated with procedures. "Operating rooms in hospitals tend to cost about $50 a minute to run, sometimes higher," Mr. Copeland said. "ASCs cost around $32 a minute. It's important to look at things such as how much it costs the sterile processing department to sterilize a set of instruments. Every wasted minute costs money." After gathering and organizing cost data, teams should consider the implementation costs for a tool or solution, as well as the expected gains in efficiency. At another hospital featured in an IST case study, tight surgical schedules needed more efficient sterile processing times. Sterile processing for two ONE TRAY®/EZ-TRAX ™ trays took only 94 minutes, saving about two hours and 39 minutes over sterile-wrapped vendor trays. "Based on this kind of analysis, it becomes easier to make investment decisions," Mr. Copeland said. ASCs that focus on analyzing the value of their investments are seeing significant benefits in terms of better patient outcomes, higher-functioning ORs and financial savings. "When you come in with a solution like ONE TRAY® or EZ-TRAX ™ , increased patient, surgeon and staff satisfaction is immediately apparent," Mr. Copeland said. "As a result, ASCs find that they are much more effective, a better place to work and a better place for patients to get treatments." IST provides an online calculator where you can do YOUR OWN value analysis. You can find that here.