Healthcare, Posts, Supply Chain
Four Ways to Reduce Hospital Supply Chain Waste
Clinical supply waste is a significant, and growing, financial and environmental challenge in healthcare. Hospitals must implement programs to reduce overall waste while finding cost-effective treatment and disposal methods of their non-regulated and regulated medical waste.
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Budget-friendly Tech Tools for Your Healthcare Storeroom or Warehouse
When tasked with designing/redesigning a storeroom or warehouse within the confines of a very tight budget, it’s oftentimes difficult to decide which technology tools to implement or ignore. Have no fear because there are solutions that will help make product flow more effectively, efficiently, fast and seamless — without breaking the bank.
Analytics, Business Intelligence, Healthcare, Posts
Perioperative Analytics: Exploratory Data Analysis in the OR (Part 4 of 4)
I am now entering the final phase of this blog series, in which I am delving into the analytics of knee replacements at one hospital. You can access the first three posts in this series here: part 1, part 2, part 3. The Seven Bridges of Königsberg to the Rescue Leonard Euler’s 1736 paper on…
Analytics, Business Intelligence, Healthcare, Posts
Perioperative Analytics: Exploratory Data Analysis in the OR (Part 3 of 4)
After having painstakingly gone through all the legal, procedural, and data engineering pain points that I described earlier, I now have in my possession a data set from a hospital system that I can eagerly sink my exploratory analytics teeth into. The data, which is now ingested, formatted, prepared, cleansed, combined, scaled, and loaded in…
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…
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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…
