Value-based healthcare, video consultations and virtual wards - the healthcare industry is undergoing radical change as part of its digital transformation. Suppliers must keep up with their customers’ needs, provide digital experiences, increase automation and standardise their supply chain processes.
Digital transformation brings many advantages along with an abundance of data. If suppliers can harness this data to predict future events reliably, they can gain a competitive advantage and better support decisions impacting patient care. The key to success is predictive analytics.
Lower costs, optimised processes, stronger customer relationships: digital transformation is associated with many advantages for healthcare suppliers. However, to realise these benefits, more is needed than just introducing digital solutions. Suppliers must understand the entire customer experience and make their business processes as simple as possible.
Adrian Bedö, Product Manager Content Solutions
Procurement processes shouldn’t start with the creation of a requisition. You should first ensure that you are using accurate, up-to-date item and pricing information. However, it isn’t easy to source healthcare item data directly from each seller. So what can be done to support procurement specialists and clinicians with quickly finding the item data they need? Which item attributes are required to support better-informed purchasing and clinical decisions? And to what extent can healthcare providers benefit from an item data management solution?
Karen Conway, Vice President, Healthcare Value
What part can healthcare procurement and supply chain play in supporting global issues such as health equity and environmental sustainability? Karen Conway spoke with Jack Searle from HSJ Intelligence to share insights from her experience of the US health system and how these can also apply to the NHS and its suppliers.
James Minards, Country Sales Manager UK & Ireland
Integrated Care Systems, Scan4Safety, data and digitalisation - as we welcome in another new year, what will be the key areas of focus for the UK healthcare industry in 2022? We asked our expert, James Minards, for their top predictions. You can read their thoughts here.
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James Minards, Country Sales Manager UK & Ireland
P4H, the leading NHS procurement and supply chain event, was back live last month. During the day-long event, procurement, inventory management and logistics experts discussed what the next 12 months might look like for the healthcare supply chain. Our own expert, James Minards, was at the event speaking to NHS professionals and identified three key takeaways.
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James Minards, Country Sales Manager UK & Ireland
How do you cut costs without cutting services? In his final LinkedIn article on supply chain digitalisation, James Minards takes a look at the financial benefits of digitalisation and how it can help healthcare providers address costly supply chain inefficiencies without affecting the quality and frequency of patient services.
James Minards, Country Sales Manager UK & Ireland
How much of a benefit could a digitalised supply chain be for the clinical front line? In his third article on supply chain digitalisation, James Minards looks at how automating procurement and inventory management operations can help healthcare providers reduce the amount of time doctors, nurses and care workers spend on non-clinical tasks.
James Minards, Country Sales Manager UK & Ireland
Healthcare providers have access to huge amounts of data, but is there an opportunity to use it more effectively to deliver better results for their patients? James Minards looks at how hospitals and trusts can use data to automate their procurement and inventory management and gain back valuable clinical time to spend on patient care.
James Minards, Country Sales Manager UK & Ireland
Digitally transforming hospital and healthcare trust supply chain processes brings significant financial and efficiency benefits, but it can also have a profoundly positive effect on patient safety. James Minards discusses how digital transformation of the healthcare supply chain can provide the key to unlocking much higher standards of patient safety.
Chris Heavey, Senior Market Manager
Chris Heavey, Senior Market Manager at GHX, shares an update on how GHX aims to work with the OpenPeppol community to support the implementation of Peppol across the healthcare industry.
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Chris Heavey, Senior Market Manager
“Implementing the Peppol standards is an integral part of our NHS eProcurement Strategy and will create significant efficiency and quality gains that will benefit patients.”
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