- Supply Chain
The Five Major Benefits of Domestic Sourcing
Discussions around domestic manufacturing of medical supplies have picked up steam in recent years as the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the risks and challenges of the global supply chain.
- Supply Chain
Purchased Services Represents Ideal Opportunity to Control Costs, Improve Efficiencies
Is your organization sourcing products and services independently or relying on years-old noncompetitive relationships? It might be high time to take a deeper look at your non-labor spend.
- Clinical
- Supply Chain
Registered Dietitians Boost Patient Outcomes — and Providers’ Financial Health
An ounce of prevention really is worth a pound of treatment — and that’s exactly why RDs play an important role in the continuum of care.
- Supply Chain
Considerations and Best Practices for Building a Successful Hospital Item Master
The hospital item master is the source of truth for supply chain and finance to assist in managing inventory — meaning it is crucial to understand some of the problems that can occur and how to combat them.
- Supply Chain
- Clinical
Addressing the Pediatric Mental Health Crisis with Integrated Behavioral Health
There is work underway that will begin to mitigate inpatient demand for pediatric behavioral health services later in the decade and drive steady outpatient growth across multiple sites. This includes the continued integration of behavioral health services...
- Supply Chain
The Big Picture: How Artwork Positively Impacts the Healthcare Environment
Through meticulous selection, art consultants develop collections that can heal, encourage, uplift, calm and inspire. A positive patient, family, staff and visitor experience helps to reduce stress on healthcare leadership and promotes meaningful and impro...
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Top Trends, Technology and Themes from the Radiology Society of North America’s Radiology Conference & Annual Meeting
For more than 100 years, diagnostic imaging professionals from around the globe have reserved the week following Thanksgiving to attend the world's largest medical imaging convention in Chicago hosted by the Radiologic Society of North America.
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Best Practices for Implementing a Sustainable Decision-Making Process in Value Analysis and Contracting
You’ve made the effort to align your strategic sourcing and value analysis teams — but are you able to ensure continued success through the sustainability of these changes? Essential components of a sustainable program are strong value analysis and contrac...
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Three Factors for Developing a Comprehensive Medical Equipment Strategy
Effective management and preventative maintenance of diagnostic imaging and biomedical equipment can improve patient access to accurate diagnoses and effective treatment while increasing reliability and performance of medical assets within and across healt...
- Supply Chain
Third-party Logistics (3PL) Programs Can Drive Supply Assurance, Redundancy for Healthcare Providers
3PL vendors can leverage their expertise to create flexibility and offer enhanced sourcing strategies for providers. Whether a provider is supplementing their shared inventory strategy by stockpiling key products (like PPE) or seeking to engage in a turnke...
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Beware – You Are Not Down Yet: Margin Pressures Will Remain Challenging in 2023
A look at the financial forces at work — and a few core strategies for health systems and life science and industry partners that may mitigate the negative economic environment’s impact.
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A Category Management Approach to Spine Care Can Help Healthcare Organizations Develop Increased Value, Deeper Partnerships
Managing supply variation in spine warrants increased attention, as spinal procedures are expected to see accelerated growth over the next decade.
- Supply Chain
How Healthcare Will Benefit from Artificial Intelligence
AI can potentially provide solutions that help address some of the simmering problems in the U.S. healthcare system, including inequitable access to care, high costs, workforce shortages, capacity constraints, workflow inefficiencies and medical errors.
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How Physician-Led Sourcing Models Build Trust While Boosting Resiliency
By ascertaining clinically relevant product attributes from clinicians prior to sourcing, you build greater trust with your patient-facing stakeholders. In the current climate of increasing margin pressures and supply constraints, that’s a benefit that can...
- Supply Chain
Six Methods to Reduce Construction Supply Chain Lead Times
Since large electrical and mechanical equipment requires components from other suppliers and are oftentimes shipped from overseas, lead times have increased tremendously amid an already constrained supply chain. But there are ways for health systems to han...
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The Art of Conversation Lies in Listening
When we listen to others during assessments, projects and other engagements, we are building trust by understanding what really matters to them. Before we prescribe solutions as consultants, we must listen to understand what is needed, then recommend, pres...
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Headaches, Aspirin and a Welcome Economic Tsunami
In the wake of the health care supply chain’s disruption during the pandemic, virtually every industry is re-examining having so little of what they depend upon produced here at home. Domestic production of mission-critical products has an immediate and vi...
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Emphasizing Nutrition, Physical Activity and Sleep Can Help Address Growing Rates of Childhood Obesity
Considering that more than half of children over the age of 6 with obesity continue to have obesity into adulthood, it’s important to educate both children and adults about how to maintain proper nutrition and physical activity levels that will help to hea...
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More Than a Band-Aid: How Infection Prevention and Supply Chain Collaboration Can Bolster Safety in Healthcare
Interdepartmental collaboration is essential to ensuring appropriate infection prevention materials are available in the supply chain, and procedures and protocols must be continually evaluated to ensure supplies follow best practices.
- Operations & Quality
- Supply Chain
Cool Approach to Healthcare Design Can Help Deter Effects of Heat
While climate change is an undeniably complex problem, health systems can be part of the solution with some relatively simple design considerations that can help reduce the effects of a warming planet.
- Supply Chain
Diagnostic Imaging Tools IVUS and FFR Offer More Targeted Cardiology Treatments for Patients
As complements to angiography, intravascular ultrasound and fractional flow reserve give physicians a far more complete picture of patients’ coronary conditions.
- Operations & Quality
- Supply Chain
ESG: What It Is and What It Means for Healthcare
Environmental, Social and Governance is generating buzz (and confusion) across the industry — but at its core, it’s about improving human health.
- Supply Chain
Nutrition is Vital Ingredient in Better Wound Care
Nutrition is an important component in wound prevention and care, and dietitians play a key role in ensuring patients receive the proper nourishment to not just recover but thrive.
- Supply Chain
From Every Angle, 3D Printing Builds Innovation, Confidence and Education Across the Continuum of Care
3D printing has many relevant applications for healthcare, including onsite production of surgical devices, medical device development, and enhanced education for clinicians and patients. Even more fascinating is the impact it can have on team-based precis...