Surgical Scheduling Procedure List
Standardize communication and scheduling workflows.
Optimize Communication & Workflows
Efficiency and functionality are crucial to the success of your operating room. By standardizing communication and scheduling workflows, you can improve operational efficiency, increase accuracy, and reduce costs.
Accuracy
Out-of-the-box EHRs might come with basic perioperative procedures, but only AORN Syntegrity provides complete access to thousands of procedures, all of which are referenced to:
- CPT ®
- ICD-10-PCS
- SNOMED-CT®
Additionally, our procedure list is maintained and updated by perioperative clinicians who work in the field. You’ll never be out of step with the timeliest, most accurate, world class operating room procedures.
Efficiency
Nurses don’t want to spend their important time sifting through improperly labeled, out-of-date procedures. They want to be treating patients with the right procedures at the right times. The AORN Syntegrity procedure list helps ensure more accurate searches for scheduling procedures, and provides preauthorization assistance that can save your organization time and improve your reimbursement processes.
Cost Reduction
Time is money. And in the operating room, time can also be a matter of life and death. Our procedure list enables your team to:
- Communicate using standardized language
- Accelerate scheduling search capabilities
- Ensure procedures are performed in the correct setting
Patient-Friendly Descriptions for Better Communication and Patient Understanding
As patients become more involved in their care through portals, digital tools, and educational resources, clear procedure information is more important than ever.
The AORN Syntegrity Procedure List includes Patient-Friendly Descriptions for more than 3,000 procedures, helping health systems communicate complex clinical information in plain language. Written at approximately a 5th–6th grade reading level and maintained by nurse informaticists, these descriptions are developed using trusted healthcare code sets and clinical references to support clarity, consistency, and accessibility.
Designed for Patient-Facing and Clinical Workflows
Strengthen patient communication while improving the usability of procedure data across your organization. Patient-Friendly Descriptions help support:
Patient Communication
- Display in patient portals
- Include in education materials and instructions
Clinical Workflows
- Support staff when explaining procedures
- Improve consistency in communication across teams
EHR Integration*
- Display alongside procedure names
- Make procedure data easier to interpret for non-clinical users
*Integration within EHRs is influenced by individual EHR builds and configurations.
Frequently Asked Questions
The procedure list is updated a minimum of twice per year.
Yes, we welcome procedure suggestions and have a user-friendly process for customer feedback.
Yes, you can use your own procedure names, use the AORN Syntegrity standardized procedure names, or use a combination.