ORtrak is a secure, patient directed communication that lets healthcare professionals share real-time information with patients loved ones, and only cloud based real-time operating room tracking system for Surgical Hospitals, ASCs, Clinics and Hospitals. It was designed and developed by mobileQure with the clinical mind to improve efficiency and measure performance. It allows to track the current status of operating rooms to efficiently update staff and surgeons about surgical procedures that are in progress, allowing them to fill available gaps in the schedule and quickly respond to delays in room turnovers. It provides real-time information to all interested parties through electronic status whiteboards that uses colors to distinguish the different phases of the patients journey from arrival all through discharge.