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Benchmarking Your OR Supply Chain: How Do You Know If You Are Actually Ahead?

Most health system supply chain leaders believe their operations are performing well. They have reduced costs in recent years. They have implemented new technology....

From Exception to Standard: How to Build a Culture of Supply Chain Accountability in Your Health System

Technology does not change behavior. People do. This is the lesson health systems learn after implementing OR supply chain platforms that deliver real-time visibility,...

Vendor Relationships, Renegotiated: How Better Data Changes Your Negotiating Power

For most health systems, surgical supply vendor negotiations are conducted on uneven ground. Vendors arrive with detailed data about usage patterns, contract performance, and...

The Future of OR Supply Chain: What Leading Health Systems Are Building Toward

The health systems that will lead on OR supply chain performance over the next decade are making decisions now that will separate them from...

What Happens After You Buy the Technology: Why Implementation Makes or Breaks OR Supply Chain ROI

Health systems invest significant resources in selecting OR supply chain technology. They evaluate vendors, negotiate contracts, and build business cases for leadership. Then they...

Beyond Cost Reduction: How Supply Chain Optimization Drives Better Patient Outcomes

Supply chain conversations in healthcare almost always start and end with cost. Reduce spend. Improve contract compliance. Eliminate revenue leakage. These are worthy goals—but...

Building the Business Case for OR Supply Chain Technology

Supply chain leaders often know exactly what their organizations need. Better visibility. Automated exception management. Real-time data integration. A single source of truth for...

What Good OR Supply Chain Data Actually Looks Like—and Why Most Hospitals Don’t Have It

Ask any health system executive if they have supply chain data and the answer is almost always yes. Ask if they can tell you,...

Standardization vs. Surgeon Preference: Finding the Balance Without Losing Your Best Physicians

Few conversations in healthcare administration are more fraught than telling a surgeon to change the products they use. Surgeons are protective of their preferences—and...