Development and implementation of a surgical scheduling system at the Dr. Eduardo Pereira Ramírez Hospital

This paper presents the application of Change Management within a hospital environment, by the iterative and incremental software development and implementation. The new surgical management control system implementation has contributed to strengthen the awareness of the surgical task and its main results are related to: i) Timely feedback, ii) Graphic visualization of the Surgical Table, iii) Automatic calculation and visualization of indicators and trends, iv) Decrease in not reported surgeries.