Chapters 2 and 3: Fixing the Middle of O&P and CRT Operations
This blog is part three of the From Manual to Modern series and focuses on clinical operations, inventory, purchasing, and logistics.
For both O&P and CRT practices, many of the most disruptive inefficiencies live between intake and billing. This is where delays, confusion, and rework most often occur.
Clinical Operations Without Visibility
Manual intake, rigid documentation templates, and fragmented task tracking force teams to hunt for information. Work-in-progress visibility is often spread across reports or systems.
Scheduling frequently depends on individual knowledge of documentation and authorization requirements, increasing the risk of missed steps and rework.
Inventory and Purchasing Gaps
Inventory and purchasing workflows are often disconnected from patient care. Without serial tracking, real-time stock visibility, or integrated vendor workflows, teams struggle to manage devices accurately.
For CRT practices handling high-value equipment, these gaps create operational and financial risk.
Academic and industry research supports the role of integrated digital workflows in improving efficiency and clinical value as the profession evolves, including
peer-reviewed research on integrated digital workflows in O&P.
What Modern Workflows Enable
Modern platforms unify clinical, inventory, and purchasing workflows into a single system. Digital intake improves data quality. AI-assisted documentation reduces administrative burden. Real-time work-in-progress tracking surfaces priorities automatically.
Inventory and purchasing workflows become structured, trackable, and tied directly to patient cases from order through delivery.
In the final post of this series, we explore how financial visibility completes the modern practice.
Next in the series: Chapter 4: Financial Reporting, Billing, and Compliance


