Hospital IT

The Importance of a Supply Chain Technology Strategy For Hospitals

The US Healthcare system lags behind the rest of American industries when it comes to using their supply chains as a competitive advantage.  Looking at Amazon, and its strategic use of its supply chain as a primary competitive advantage, highlights the differences between other industries and healthcare.  Amazon has invested billions of dollars to build […]

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Supply Chain Efficiencies and Process Redesign Top Survey of Cost Containment Strategies

Purchasing and supply chain efficiencies continue to be viewed as the primary ways to drive cost savings at hospitals. This is according to the recent survey titled 2017 HealthLeaders Media Cost and Revenue Strategies: The Need for Transparency and Understanding True Costs. According to the survey, respondents aren’t seeing any signs of diminished returns from

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How To Use Data To Improve Revenue and Outcomes

Maximizing revenue and patient satisfaction is a constant struggle in today’s healthcare environment.  Many decisions result in improving one at the expense of the other.  A recent presentation by Wise Health System at the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s ANI conference in Orlando spoke about how to accomplish both goals with a data-driven culture. The endeavor

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Comparing Supply Tracking Technologies

Why Explore Supply Tracking Automation? Hospitals and health systems in the US are typically generating annual revenues in the hundreds of millions to billions of dollars. Their profit margins are razor thin and getting squeezed tighter each day. Yet hospitals, and specifically their procedural areas like the ORs, Cath Labs and Interventional Radiology, are sitting

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How to Use Data to Get Lean With Medical Devices and Increase Patient Safety

We’ve all seen it (and maybe even done it ourselves) – thousands of dollars of medical devices tucked away in our desks, filing cabinets, ceilings, wherever we can find a secret space. This isn’t a practice intended to waste hospital dollars, it’s done with the best intention – patient safety. When a patient needs a

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How Your Medical Devices Can Tell You When They’re About To Expire

A recent survey conducted by Cardinal Health showed that 24% of hospital staff have seen or heard of an expired product being used on a patient during a procedure (original article here). This comes as no surprise, as we have witnessed the usage of expired inventory at hospitals first-hand.  Without the proper processes and vigilance

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How To Make Your Scopes Tell You When They’re Missing

All successful endoscopy practices within private practices and hospitals face the same dilemma – how do I track down scopes that have gone missing? With numerous docs, interns, techs and nurses all having access to all the scopes in your facility, it’s a near impossibility to keep track of all of your scopes with 100%

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How To Make Your Scopes Tell You When They Need To Be Washed

There has been a lot of discussion lately about the number of days a flexible endoscope can safely be in storage before another cleaning is required. Different medical societies like SGNA, ASGE, AORN and APIC have come out with guidance on what the appropriate hang-time limits are. Some hospitals that we’ve talked to have listened

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The Dangers Of Copy-And-Paste In Your Medical Records

With the seemingly endless amount of information clinicians are required to enter into medical records software each day, it comes as no surprise that doctors and other hospital staff are looking for short-cuts to reduce their documentation burden.  At our customers, we’ve seen copying and pasting of data from templates or other patient records to

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How Big Data In The OR Saved One Health System Nearly $10 Million Last Year

Big data has been a buzzword in the healthcare industry for the past few years, but more often than not, the benefits of big data have been hard to quantify. Not so for St. Louis, Missouri-based Mercy health system.  Mercy has recently turned big data findings in the perioperative area of their hospitals into savings

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