A leading heart hospital in Texas has expanded its use of a leading supply automation technology to reduce costs and increase efficiencies in its Operating Rooms (ORs). The hospital has been regarded as one of the top cardiology focused hospitals in the state of Texas since it opened over a decade ago. The hospital has […]
With all the protocols that endoscope techs and sterile processing staff must follow to properly high level disinfect every scope, flexible endoscopes can disappear into a black hole when they are needed most – only to pop up again when it is too late. There are several contributors to this inefficiency: long waiting periods in
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With many hospitals still relying on manual processes or antiquated technologies for managing their expensive supplies and implants, they are facing a multitude of consequences that are affecting their ability to provide safe and efficient healthcare. Some of the consequences of inadequate supply management techniques include using expired implants, gross overstocking of supplies, poor revenue
According to a recent survey, a vast majority of hospital financial leaders agreed that focusing on cost reductions will be one of their main priorities in 2020. The same survey also revealed that hospital CFOs and other financial leaders need to bulk up their investment in data analytics and management dashboards. The survey, conducted by
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Over the last decade, hospitals have made a varying amount of investments into their supply chains to drive costs out of their organizations. While many hospitals have been at the forefront of moving to automation technologies such as RFID and bar-coding, many other hospitals still rely on pen and paper-based manual processes to run their
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In today’s environment, Endoscopy and PeriOperative departments need to be very careful to follow their endoscope reprocessing protocols extremely closely. With all the reports of superbug outbreaks due to the inadequate disinfection of scopes, it is the primary job of sterile processing (or whichever department oversees reprocessing scopes) to provide safe endoscopes to use on
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According to a recent survey, most hospital executives agreed that better supply chain management can increase profit margins by up to 3%. However, these same executives agreed that not enough investment in supply chain technologies and improvements have been made and that supply chain departments are using outdated technology to accomplish their mission. The survey,
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Springfield, Missouri-based Mercy Health has taken to data analytics to help understand the discrepancy in physician item usage in order to boost its bottom line. By using data to analyze the costs and usage patterns of physicians on similar cases, it has identified many opportunities to reduce supply costs and increase its profitability. Using data
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The typical procedural area in a medium or large hospital spends hours per week generating the daily re-order list of their important supplies and implants. The typical procedural area, like a Cath Lab, EP Lab, Vascular Operating Room or Interventional Radiology Department, spends those hours doing manual, inexact tasks such as “eyeballing” inventory to find
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As expensive medical instruments that experience a lot of wear and tear, flexible endoscopes can cost a hospital a lot of money when going through avoidable repairs. Repairing flexible endoscopes often requires expensive maintenance from third-party organizations, downtime of services due to unusable scopes and procurement of expensive loaner scopes to handle the required workload.
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