Perioperative coordination

The operating room runs on precision.
The operating day should too.

Kabien gives perioperative teams one shared, real-time picture of the day, connecting scheduling, pre-op, the OR, recovery, staffing, and family communication so care teams can focus on care.

Built from inside the realities of surgical care, not around them.

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The problem

Surgical days are too complex to run on memory.

Every case depends on dozens of moving parts: the patient, the room, the nurse, anesthesia, the surgeon, recovery capacity, staffing coverage, and the schedule that keeps changing.

But most perioperative teams still coordinate the day through whiteboards, printed schedules, phone calls, group texts, spreadsheets, and instinct.

  • The EMR documents care.
  • The schedule plans care.
  • Kabien coordinates the day around care.
The day drifts

A late arrival, a room delay, or a staffing gap quietly cascades across the schedule.

The team scrambles

Updates move by phone call, hallway conversation, and “did anyone tell PACU?”

The family waits

Loved ones sit without visibility, while staff carry one more communication burden.

The category

Kabien is the coordination layer for perioperative care.

Kabien is not an EMR.

It is not a scheduling tool.

It is not another dashboard.

Kabien is an operational coordination platform built for the live perioperative day: the space between the schedule and the medical record where delays, handoffs, staffing decisions, room readiness, and family communication actually happen.

It gives every role the same operating picture, filtered to what they need to know, available on the surface they already use.

On the floor
iPad-native

A native iPad experience for charge nurses, pre-op, OR, PACU, and perioperative teams.

In the office
Web tools

For administrators, schedulers, physician offices, staffing, and operational review.

For families
SMS-first updates

Privacy-safe status visibility for loved ones. No app required.

The outcome

A quieter day for the people holding it together.

When the operating day has one shared picture, the work changes. The charge nurse does not have to hold every exception in their head. Pre-op knows what the OR needs next. PACU sees what is coming.

Administrators understand the day as it happens, not after it is over. Families receive updates without adding another call to the front desk.

Kabien does not remove the human judgment from perioperative care.
It protects it by removing the noise around it.

Shared situational awareness

Everyone sees the same reality in real time.

Lower cognitive load

The system surfaces delays, bottlenecks, and coverage gaps before they cascade.

Fewer avoidable calls

Structured updates replace repeated “where is the patient?” communication.

Operational confidence

Leaders see throughput, room readiness, staffing pressure, and trends with context.

Platform

Five modules. One coordinated platform.

Kabien connects the major operational surfaces of surgical care into one coordinated platform. Facilities can start with the module they need most and expand without adding disconnected vendors.

ModuleWeb + SMS
Kabien Access™

Scheduling alignment and patient communication before the day begins. Physician offices, facilities, patients, and families stay connected through one shared timeline.

ModuleiPad
Kabien Core

The live operating picture of the day. A native iPad experience for tracking patients from scheduled arrival through discharge.

ModuleiPad + Web
Kabien Flow+™

Room readiness, turnover, and throughput visibility. Procedure rooms become live operational entities, not verbal updates.

ModuleWeb + iPad
Kabien Workforce™

Staffing clarity before and during the surgical day. Plan coverage by role, skill, and availability. Then surface call-outs, breaks, floats, and gaps where the charge nurse already works.

ModuleiPad + Web
Kabien Operational Intelligence™

Predictive operational signals and recommendations that explain themselves, always with human review.

Start where the pain is sharpest. Expand without adding another disconnected tool.

Why platform matters

The power is not in one module.
It is in what they know together.

A patient board can show where patients are. A staffing tool can show who is available. A scheduling tool can show who is coming next. A room tracker can show what is turning over.

Kabien connects all of it.

When the OR is moving faster than PACU can absorb, Kabien can detect the pattern before it becomes a hallway conversation. It can explain the operational signals behind it, recommend a staffing adjustment, and suggest a patient timing update — with the reasoning visible and the care team in control.

That is the difference between software that displays the day and a platform that helps coordinate it.

When every signal is connected, the day can respond before it breaks.

Cross-module signal
Illustrative scenario
PACU congestion risk detected

Rooms are turning faster than recovery capacity. Kabien can see the pressure building before the delay cascades.

Signals connected
  • Room turnover is running ahead of baseline
  • PACU bays are nearing capacity
  • Two patients are likely to reach recovery within 25 minutes
  • A PACU-skilled nurse is currently assigned to pre-op
  • The next inbound patient has not yet left home
Recommended response
  • Consider temporarily moving PACU-skilled coverage to recovery
  • Consider adjusting the next arrival communication
  • Monitor PACU capacity for the next case wave
Human action. The charge nurse reviews, modifies, or approves. Kabien coordinates the approved response — it does not act on its own.
Coordinated through
  • Workforcesupports the coverage adjustment
  • Accesssupports patient timing communication
  • Core + Flow+keep the team aligned on the live picture
  • Operational Intelligencetracks the signal and the outcome

Operational Intelligence does not act on its own. It explains what it sees, recommends a response, and keeps the human team in control.

Category clarity

Built to coordinate care, not document it.

Hospitals and surgery centers already have systems of record. Kabien is designed for the operational layer those systems were never meant to own.

We complement the EMR, scheduling systems, staffing platforms, and existing infrastructure by coordinating the live day around them.

EMRs document care.
Kabien coordinates the day around care.
Scheduling systems plan the day.
Kabien helps teams respond when the day changes.
Dashboards explain what happened.
Kabien surfaces what is happening now, and what may happen next.
Generic workflow tools require translation.
Kabien is built specifically for perioperative teams.
Why we built it

Designed by people who understand the floor.

Kabien was built from the lived reality of perioperative care: the early starts, the delayed cases, the rooms waiting on a handoff, the family looking for an update, the charge nurse keeping the entire day moving by instinct.

That is why Kabien is:

  • Calm by design.
  • Role-aware by default.
  • Human-in-the-loop by principle.

And focused on one thing: giving care teams clarity when the day is moving fast.

The best surgical teams already know how to deliver care.
They need systems that respect the precision, pressure, and coordination their work requires.
Operational Intelligence

Intelligence that supports the team.
Never replaces it.

Kabien Operational Intelligence looks across scheduling, patient progression, room state, staffing coverage, communication timing, and historical patterns to surface operational risk before it becomes operational chaos.

It does not make clinical decisions.
It does not act autonomously.
It does not hide its reasoning.

  • Every signal is explainable.
    Reasoning is shown, not hidden.
  • Every recommendation is reviewable.
    Acknowledge, modify, or dismiss.
  • Every action stays with the team.
    Kabien never acts autonomously on the day.
Operational Intelligence
Trust model
Operational Intelligence guardrails
  • Operational signals only

    Kabien reasons about schedule, stage, room, staffing, and communication signals — not clinical decisions.

  • Explainable by design

    Every signal shows the operational inputs behind it.

  • Human-reviewed actions

    Recommendations can be acknowledged, modified, or dismissed.

  • No autonomous execution

    Kabien does not change operational state unless an authorized team member approves the action.

The system recommends. The team decides. Every action is traceable.

Trust

Clinical-grade trust, from the first deployment.

Kabien is designed for regulated healthcare environments from the ground up: tenant isolation, role-based access, audit trails, encryption, SSO, MFA, entitlement controls, and human-in-the-loop safeguards.

We do not treat security as an enterprise feature. It is part of the operating model.

Role-aware access

Users see and act only within their responsibility.

Tenant-scoped architecture

Every request, query, and action is scoped to the facility.

Auditability by design

Meaningful actions are logged with actor, time, entity, and device context.

Human-in-the-loop controls

No operational state changes from intelligence outputs without human confirmation.

Privacy-safe communication

Family updates are designed to avoid unnecessary PHI exposure.

Deployment-ready foundation

Built for modern identity, encryption, and compliance workflows.

Care teams

For every team carrying the perioperative day.

Charge nurses

A system that helps hold the day with you.

Pre-op and PACU teams

Clear visibility into who is ready, who is waiting, and what is coming next.

OR teams

Room, patient, and readiness context without another phone call.

Schedulers and physician offices

A shared timeline from case request to arrival.

Administrators

Operational visibility across throughput, staffing, room utilization, and trends.

Families

Simple, privacy-safe updates when silence creates anxiety.

Surfaces

The right surface for every moment of the day.

iPad for the floor

A native experience for the fast-moving, shared clinical environment.

Web for planning and oversight

Scheduling, staffing, administration, analytics, and operational review.

SMS for patients and families

Confirmation, reminders, instructions, and privacy-safe updates, without an app install.

Request a demo

Give your perioperative team the operating picture they deserve.

Kabien helps surgical teams coordinate the day with the same clarity and precision they bring to patient care.

We will walk you through how Kabien can support your facility, your workflows, and your care teams.

Built for ASCs and hospital perioperative teams.

Coming soon

Demo requests open at launch.

We’re finalizing onboarding for the first wave of perioperative teams. When demo requests open, this is where they’ll come in.

Until then, please get in touch through your existing Kabien contact.

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