Healthcare, Posts, Supply Chain
The Clinical Value of Operating Room Inventory Best Practices
The topic of operating room inventory management and point of use capture in the OR continues to be an important one as healthcare organizations look to improve supply chain visibility and reduce costs. Recently, I had a good discussion with Stephanie Mittler, Senior Clinical Consultant at Mercy Hospital Washington as well as a former OR…
Analytics, Business Intelligence, Healthcare, Posts
Perioperative Analytics: Exploratory Data Analysis in the OR (Part 2 of 4)
In part 1 of this four-part blog series, I invited you, the reader, to join me on a data-driven journey: Exploratory Analysis and Discovery in the OR. The goal was to discover whether there were any business process insights that may be leveraged from the hospital supply chain at the point of use. I also…
Healthcare, Posts, Supply Chain
3 Myths about Point-of-Use Inventory Management Systems
Health systems looking to control costs while strengthening patient care often struggle to bring lasting change to hospital supply chains with complex requirements.
Analytics, Business Intelligence, Healthcare, Posts
Perioperative Analytics: Exploratory Data Analysis in the OR (Part 1 of 4)
The vast swathes of data being collected in modern health systems suggest that perioperative analytics (or OR analytics) are at the ready. The truth is that extracting meaningful information from all those data points takes some coordination and a little exploration. Let's take a look at the exploratory data analysis that underscores analytics, and the different 'flavors' of perioperative analytics, from descriptive and diagnostic to predictive and prescriptive.
Healthcare, Posts, Supply Chain
5 Perspectives on the Clinically Integrated Supply Chain
When addressing supply chain integration, we are inherently talking about connecting the traditionally disconnected, and it becomes a complicated—and often messy—state of affairs.
Healthcare, Posts, Supply Chain
It’s Time to Transform the Healthcare Supply Chain
Transformation is a disruptive undertaking, but the risks and opportunities within the IDN Supply Chain warrant a closer look into a health system's nextgen supply chain readiness.
