Transcript
Utilization is one of the biggest and really one of the strongest, I think, features or functionality that we have within MediGate. It essentially, it does require a little bit of setup. So obviously, you know, the default is going to be 24 hours in a hospital. A lot of devices run 24 hours. So to really get the full picture of utilization, we need to go in and say, all right, so for certain clinics, maybe a certain clinic is only open eight to five. So if that clinic's only open eight to five, obviously we're not going to be using utilizing those devices outside of that, those hours. But if we set that timeframe from eight to five, we can see how often those devices are utilized. Why that's really important is the cost savings specifically with devices. A lot of times you will have, maybe it's a radiology, the head of radiology come to you and say, I need, I need this new device. And you can say, okay, well, tell me more. Why do we need this new device? And, you know, he or she will typically say, well, we have five other devices where, you know, we're already overly booked for those devices. I need one more. It costs $120,000. So you can actually go into the system and look here and see, and look at those five devices and say, well, actually, you know what, three of those devices, yes, they're being used, maybe 90%. But two devices aren't being used a lot. And a lot of times what you'll find is those maybe one device or maybe two devices will be of a different manufacturer that the staff maybe wasn't initially trained on or properly trained on, or maybe the user interface just isn't as, it's not as nice of a tool to use. So they will, you know, sometimes book appointments out to be able to use the tools that they like. So that then helps in that case, you can save maybe $120,000 by not buying another device, but maybe train your staff, like, look, we have these two devices. They were pretty expensive. Let's, let's utilize.
