The supply chain is positioned to play a critical role in the transformation that healthcare needs to make in order to provide quality care in a sustainable and affordable manner. With better visibility to data, greater integration with clinical and financial operations, and improved business processes across trading partners, the supply chain can address many of the challenges facing the healthcare industry today.

Healthcare Reform
With healthcare reform, healthcare delivery organizations are living in two worlds: the past, where they have been paid / reimbursed for the services they perform, and the future, in which those payments will be based on their ability to report on and deliver quality care in an efficient manner. Go >>

Escalating Supply Chain Costs
If healthcare systems are going to have an understanding of how much it costs to deliver care, consolidating supply spending and operations will be critical. Go >>

Technology Adoption
Historically, healthcare providers have invested less on back-office automation, including supply chain systems, than other industries.
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Supplier-Provider Collaboration
A lack of trust tends to be self-fulfilling. When organizations do not trust one another, they are less apt to share information; when they don’t share information, the lack of transparency breeds mistrust. Go >>

Global Standards Adoption
Over the past 30 years, there have been attempts, largely unsuccessful, to broadly adopt and use these kinds of standards in healthcare. Now, there are signs that that is beginning to change. Go >>

Management of Implantable Devices
Today, managing implantable devices is still a largely manual process laden with lost revenue through incorrect charge capture, inadequate purchasing controls, lack of data for value analysis, and excessive labor and inventory costs. Research shows that better management can help increase revenue capture, lower supply chain costs and improve staff productivity. Go>>