Healthcare, 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
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, 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, 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.
Healthcare, Supply Chain
Closing the Operational Gaps Between Clinical and Supply Chain in Healthcare
It’s an interesting time in the healthcare industry, and for the supply chain specifically. Each of the following market factors is thrusting the supply chain to center stage and calling on all of us to up our game in the face of more complex operations. These factors include:
Healthcare, Supply Chain
Healthcare Supply Chain Embraces E-commerce Trends
Historically, the margins in this specialized industry have compensated for lack of advanced healthcare supply chain capabilities. Now, though, the industry is no longer standing still due to the increasing pressures on margins, traceability and customer demands.
