Available Technology
A novel team optimization system for achieving optimal performance management
Technology:
Algorithm
Markets Addressed
This technology uses predictive analytics to compose a team with the lowest possibility for surgical morbidity. The intelligent system developed is based on the theory of probability and the inclusion exclusion principle to compose an optimal team with minimal risks.
Two key components of the algorithm are:
1) Identification the complication rates for each member of a surgical team from complication rates of many past surgical procedures.
2) Selecting an optimal surgical team for a given procedure after evaluating all possible team combinations.
Some of the factors used in the algorithm calculation are individual members’ historical surgery outcome of the same procedure in the past, schedule availability, and inter-personal relationship with other potential team members. This intelligent system for determining optimal surgical team is highly dependent on comprehensive historical records. The inventor seeks to apply this technology in prepping for surgical procedures in medical interventions to prevent and reduce any surgical complications.
While workforce/team optimization and lean assessment algorithms are gradually becoming the mainstay in various service industries, Healthcare service optimization, specifically, in urgent care settings, is still an area where a computerized system like this would be able to reduce mortality/ morbidity rates as well as evoke cost reduction.
While consulting groups from multiple disciplines have used decision based algorithm trees in workforce/team optimization and lean assessments in various service industries, it has not been implemented to the same extent in the medical intervention sector.
Surgical complications arise in hospitals (during surgical procedures and post-operative recovery) and even after discharge. The most common causes of complications occur during the intraoperative phase and are usually related to suboptimal teamwork, miscommunication and disruptions, which are easily preventable. The technology created by Dr. Zenati provides a new approach to the reduction of surgical complications significantly by addressing easily manipulated complication-causing factors.
Dr. Zenati has developed an algorithm which calculates the optimal team composition that would lead to the best performance for surgical procedures, as well as reduce the amount of surgical complications both pre, intra, and post surgery.
Innovations and Advantages
1. Minimizing surgical complications by assembling the best possible surgical team.
2. Assembling team-based organizations such as in sports as well as in sales and marketing.
3. Agencies and organizations that construct high-risk team-based operations (e.g. the military or aeronautics) may find the technology invaluable in forming a successful team and completing successful mission with minimal damage.
Additional Information
Intellectual Property Status: Patent(s) pending
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Inventor(s):
Mohammady, Mohsen Mahvash
Zenati, Marco
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For further information, please contact:
Michal Preminger, Director of Business Development
(617) 432-0920
Reference Harvard Case #4453