More than ever, today’s healthcare environment is calling for hospitals and health systems to rein in their costs. With all of the pressures of Covid-19 placed on top of prior concerns such as declining reimbursements and the shift to value-based care, hospitals are quickly looking to reduce costs while maintaining high standards of care. One […]
Emergency rooms are some of the most hectic workplaces in America. With daily arrivals of trauma patients and other patients in major distress, processes often break down in the face of life-and-death emergencies. In situations like these, hospitals must rely on their established systems to ensure that required documentation and other workflows are completed as
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Many hospitals utilize inventory management software to track the usage of their implants and supplies in order to know when to re-order them. They can also mine this data to understand which products are overstocked or understocked and can update their PAR levels as required. This can lead to an effective and efficient inventory management
Many hospitals have access to data from their inventory management systems that allow them to analyze usage trends of individual supplies and implants. In the procedural areas of the hospital, where many items can range in price from $500 to $25,000, the cost of having too much inventory on hand can exceed hundreds of thousands
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For inventory managers and inventory techs in hospitals, the cycle counting process for reconciling inventory can be a time-consuming burden. On top of managing day to day activities to keep their departments fully stocked with inventory, they have to carve out time for this labor-intensive activity. Typically, these cycle counts happen once per quarter –
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Ask any hospital inventory manager what their least favorite part of the job is, and a majority will say inventory reconciliation. After all, reconciling inventory is a tedious, time-consuming and labor-intensive process that, despite all its drawbacks, needs to be completed to ensure the success of your department’s operations. We’ve all been on the receiving
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