Episode Details

In this episode, Sam Yeruva, Founder and CEO of Pycube, Inc., discuses the hidden cost of hospital inefficiency.

Highlights of this episode include:

• What operational intelligence is
• How it changes the way hospitals function day-to-day
• How AI can be applied in hospitals
• Examples where operational improvements directly impacted patient care

Kelly Wisness: Hi, this is Kelly Wisness. Welcome back to the award-winning Hospital Finance Podcast.  We’re pleased to welcome Sam Yeruva. Sam is the founder and CEO of Pycube, Inc., a company transforming the way hospitals operate behind the scenes. With a background in electrical and computer engineering and training from Harvard Business School, his decade working inside hospitals revealed a systemic problem. While clinical care is world-class, operations are often unpredictable. Motivated by a personal experience where critical biopsy samples were lost for 10 days, Sam launched Pycube to bring true operational intelligence to healthcare. Today, Pycube helps hospitals track assets and supplies in real time, saving caregivers hours and unlocking millions in recovered efficiency. In this episode, we’re discussing the hidden cost of hospital inefficiency. Welcome, and thank you for joining us, Sam.

Sam Yeruva: Well, thank you, Kelly. Thanks for having me.

Kelly: All right. Well, let’s go ahead and jump in. So, what is operational intelligence, and how does it change the way hospitals function day-to-day?

Sam: Well, operational efficiency is a day-to-day operations that hospitals have. They’re like a well-oiled machine that actually runs millions of people who come in and get into the hospital. I call hospitals as nothing but– some people call them mechanic shops, which they actually– if you look at a repair shop where you take your cars, they actually make them better and send them back. The same way we all get sick and we go there and get taken care of, and then they fix us and they send us back into the productivity mode. I was talking to some doctors and they call it expensive hotel rooms. They’re providing a specific service. It’s just they’re full all the time, but they’re very complicated, run by very smart people, and they save our lives. So, it’s a well-oiled machine. It has a lot of components to it. There are very complicated things that they do