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 product 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 a catalogue 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.
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Kevin Sample, Senior Consulting and Business Development Manager
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 experts, James Minards and Kevin Sample, for their top predictions. You can read their thoughts here.
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