Pre-operative assessment - ePOA

Efficient pre-operative assessment is critical to safe, timely elective surgery, yet many health and care organisations still rely on paper-based or fragmented digital workflows. Traditional processes can create administrative burden, increase patient contact unnecessarily, and limit visibility for clinicians managing complex surgical pathways.

ePOA overcomes these challenges. Built on AireBlocks, by Aire Innovate, ePOA digitises the end to end elective pre operative assessment process from surgical consultation through to theatre booking. The platform can replicate any existing workflows, whether paper based or digital, and provides both patient and clinician facing interfaces to streamline communication, reduce administrative effort, and optimise surgical scheduling.

Standalone or integrated, ePOA connects with Patient Administration Systems (PAS) and Electronic Patient or Health Record (EPR, EHR) systems, ensuring a holistic and accurate record of patient information. Optional Smart PreOp AI further enhances the pathway by risk stratifying patients using Primary care and procedure data, providing ASA based cohorting, and predicting 30 day mortality risk to support clinical decision making.

Proven impact at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust:

1. Transitioned from face-to-face to digital assessments for almost all patients
2. Digitisation freed up to 50% of clinician time; previously each pre-operative assessment took approximately 40 minutes
3. Eliminated 6,000+ face-to-face appointments annually
4. Delivered £57,000 in yearly administrative savings per department
5. Improved patient experience and clinical efficiency across surgical pathways

Using Aire Innovates preoperative assessment enabled our Trust to rapidly move away from face to face preoperative assessment for almost all our patients. This improved patient experience, the efficiency of our processes, and clinical quality. It is a win win.
Dr Alwyn Kotze, Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Key benefits include:

1. Reduced administrative burden: Automate tasks, eliminate duplicated paperwork, and decrease time clinicians spend on non clinical work.
2. Improved patient experience: Remote patient questionnaires and device agnostic forms reduce the need for face to face visits.
3. Optimised surgical workflows: Customisable work lists and automated task driven processes increase efficiency in managing bookings, cancellations, and peri operative planning.
4. Proactive patient management: Identify at risk patients and suggest interventions to improve health and fitness before surgery.
5. Integration and interoperability: Open APIs enable seamless connection with EPRs, EHRs, PAS, and other healthcare applications.

Features include:

1. Patient facing interface for remote assessment completion
2. Device agnostic forms and automated task workflows
3. Reporting dashboards for clinical and operational oversight
4. Customisable patient work lists
5. Smart PreOp AI for risk stratification and decision support

ePOA empowers health and care organisations to modernise pre-operative assessment, improve patient outcomes, reduce administrative burden, and deliver safer, more efficient surgical pathways.