Kara L. Nadeau, Healthcare Industry Contributor
For decades supply chain business process management has encompassed digitization and automation of electronic data interchange (EDI) transactions from purchase order (PO) through to invoice creation.
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Kara L. Nadeau, Healthcare Industry Contributor
Clinical integration for healthcare supply chains is gaining in importance as hospitals seek to control costs and improve patient outcomes. This approach goes beyond the initial price tag and takes into account factors such as patient experience and outcomes, clinician involvement and the availability of data used to inform supply decisions.
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Kara L. Nadeau, Healthcare Industry Contributor
Digital transformation is changing the landscape of healthcare supply chains, delivering efficiency gains and improvements that translate into better patient care. Providers are increasingly embracing cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and automation, strategies that overcome traditional roadblocks and streamline operations.
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Kara L. Nadeau, Healthcare Industry Contributor
Item master data serves as the backbone of a hospital's supply chain and ensuring the accuracy, timeliness, and completeness of this data is paramount for achieving the "perfect order" in healthcare delivery. However, managing item master data is challenging due to the sheer volume of information, ever-changing data inputs and the need for coordination among multiple parties.
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Kara L. Nadeau, Healthcare Industry Contributor
Learn how high-reliability organizations (HROs) operate in the healthcare industry and supply chain, including benefits, challenges to operations and strategic implementation for promoting patient safety in care delivery.
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Denise Odenkirk, Vice President, Supplier Sales
Learn how healthcare administrative simplification can help providers work more efficiently, reduce costs and improve patient care using strategies and technologies that minimize paperwork, turn data into actionable insights and improve collaboration.
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Kara L. Nadeau, Healthcare Industry Contributor
A 2023 GHX survey explores consumer preferences and concerns in terms of hospital safety and staffing, emphasizing the growing appeal of non-acute care options. Get the key takeaways in this article and discover consumer expectations on safety, staffing, and quality to shape a future-focused patient experience.
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Suzanne Smith, Solution Advisor, Lumere
Healthcare worker burnout and job-related stress have always been a concern for many healthcare organizations. As hospitals and other care providers continue to navigate the post-COVID environment, workforce stabilization and the well-being of their front-line caregivers continues to be top-of-mind for many healthcare leaders.
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Kara L. Nadeau, Healthcare Industry Contributor
While healthcare delivery is dependent on the interconnectedness of people and processes within a health system or hospital - from those performing back office operations (e.g., supply chain, finance) to clinicians at the patient bedside - health information technology (IT) in these different areas has evolved separately and at different paces. Even within the clinical care function, different departments and specialties might use disparate healthcare information systems.
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Kara L. Nadeau, Healthcare Industry Contributor
Recent survey data shows that consumers are worried about the care and security in healthcare facilities. Leveraging recent findings on the topic, this article explores consumer perception of patient safety in hospitals as well as best practices and strategies for ensuring a safe care environment.
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