HUS Eye Clinic – cost savings in cataract surgery and AMD treatment
HUS Eye Clinic saves an estimated €306,000 a year with BCB Medical’s registries
Automatically generated reports and faster record-keeping free up clinicians’ time and cut costs at HUS Eye Clinic. Using BCB Medical’s Cataract Register and Retina Register, the clinic estimates total savings of €306,000 per year:
- €126,000 per year in cataract surgery
- €180,000 per year in AMD injection treatments
The challenge: high volumes and manual documentation
HUS Eye Clinic treats large numbers of patients every year. Each cataract operation and AMD (age-related macular degeneration) injection creates documentation work: reports to dictate, entries to make in the electronic patient record, and physical documents to look up.
The clinic uses BCB Medical’s Clinical Information Management System (CIMS) for its Cataract Register and Retina Register. Because the data is already recorded in a structured way, the system can generate medical and surgical reports automatically and make patient information available without manual searches.
Cataract surgery: €126,000 saved per year
Automatically generated surgical reports – €112,000 per year
HUS Eye Clinic performs cataract surgery on around 8,000 patients a year, and each patient previously needed two dictated reports. BCB CIMS now creates these surgical reports automatically, saving an estimated €112,000 per year.
Faster record-keeping – €14,000 per year
Entering a cataract operation into the electronic patient record used to take a healthcare professional 3–4 minutes, around 5,000 times a year. With BCB CIMS, the time saved adds up to about eight weeks’ worth of procedures, worth approximately €14,000 per year.
AMD injection treatments: €180,000 saved per year
Automatically generated medical reports – €140,000 per year
About 10,000 AMD patients a year receive a total of 32,000 injection treatments at HUS Eye Clinic, which used to mean 20,000 dictated reports. BCB CIMS now creates these reports automatically, saving an estimated €140,000 per year.
More efficient operations – €40,000 per year
Every search for a patient’s physical documents cost the clinic about €4. With patient information available in BCB CIMS, around 10,000 such searches a year are no longer needed, saving €40,000 per year.
Savings at a glance
| Area | Improvement with BCB CIMS | Estimated savings (€/year) |
| AMD injection treatments | Automatically generated medical reports | 140,000 |
| AMD injection treatments | No physical document searches | 40,000 |
| Cataract surgery | Automatically generated surgical reports | 112,000 |
| Cataract surgery | Faster record-keeping in the patient record | 14,000 |
| Total | 306,000 |
The savings come from structured data that is recorded once and used many times. Clinicians spend less time dictating and searching, and more time on patient care.
Source: Erna Kentala, Director, HUS Emergency Outpatient Clinic for Eye Diseases, Eye and Ear Hospital.