Capturing the whole surgical case, from booking to recovery
A surgery is not one event. It is a chain from booking to recovery, and a break anywhere in that chain is a risk. Here is how to capture the whole case on one record.
A surgery uses thousands of naira in consumables. If they are not captured per case, they are care given away and stock that vanishes. Here is how to stop both.
A single surgical case can consume thousands of naira in sutures, implants, disposables, and drugs. Across a busy theatre’s weekly list, the value of consumables used is enormous. And in many hospitals, a worrying share of it is never captured, neither charged to the patient or their scheme, nor drawn down properly from stock. The consumables are used, the cost is real, but on paper they are tallied on a sheet that may not reach billing and may not reconcile against the store. The result is a double leak: surgical revenue given away, and stock that disappears without explanation. Theatre is one of the places a hospital most quietly loses money.
Capturing consumables per case, on the same record as the surgery and connected to billing and stock, is how a hospital closes both leaks at once.
Uncaptured consumables hurt the hospital in two directions:
Both leaks come from the same gap: the consumables used in theatre are recorded, if at all, on a separate tally that does not connect to either billing or stock. What is not connected is not captured.
Veona Theatre captures the consumables used as part of the surgical case record. The items used are recorded against the case as it happens, on the shared record, rather than on a loose sheet. From there they flow where they need to go: to billing, so the case is charged correctly, and to stock, so the store reflects what was actually used.
Consumables captured on the case are revenue earned and stock accounted for. Consumables tallied on a loose sheet are neither.
Because the captured consumables feed billing, the expensive items used in surgery are charged to the patient or their scheme. The case is billed for what it actually used, so surgical revenue is captured rather than given away. And because the patient’s HMO or insurance cover is recognised on the procedure, the consumables are applied correctly to the claim, not lost in the gap between theatre and the cashier.
Because the same captured consumables draw down from Veona Stock, the store reflects what theatre actually used. Inventory stops drifting, the reason items left the shelf is recorded against real cases, and reordering is based on true usage. The theatre stops being the black hole where stock disappears without trace.
The value of capturing theatre consumables on the case is that a single act, recording what was used as the surgery happens, closes both the revenue leak and the stock leak at once. The case is charged for what it used, and the store knows what left it. For a hospital where theatre quietly loses money in both directions, this is one of the most direct ways to protect surgical margins and inventory together. It is one part of the whole surgical case captured on one record.
See consumables captured per case flow to both billing and stock. Book a demo and we will track a case’s consumables with you.
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