Knowledge Center

This on-demand session was presented at the Spring Summit: Transformational Excellence.

Hospitals continue to face challenges with their supply chains and are spending more time than ever trying to manage those supply chains. Hospitals, however, can mitigate these challenges by adopting proven solutions. Read this article to discover four solutions that hospitals can use to build not only a better supply chain but a more resilient one.

Effectively managing a hospital’s inventory has always been important. However, it has become even more important over the past several years. Read this article to learn the most pressing challenges hospitals face in managing their inventory then discover how hospitals are working to solve them.

This white paper explores the importance of balancing health care supply sourcing through both domestic and international suppliers, the benefits and challenges of building new, domestic health care supply chains, and why community sourcing and warehousing can benefit hospitals, their staff and communities, and the delivery of high-quality patient care.

In this two-part webinar, professors from top supply chain management degree programs share perspectives on the current landscape, trends and future expectations of the global supply chain and its impacts on the health care supply chain.

Read a sponsored blog from Owens & Minor to learn how strategic partnerships can help hospitals lower costs, improve supply chain resilience, and improve operational efficiency.

Learn how Baptist Health forged its traditional AP cost center into a cost savings driver.

Join manufacturers, distributors and providers as we consider what demand planning looks like in an uncertain world.

A panel of provider thought leaders as discusses the ISO 80369-3 (ENFit) small bore connector conversion successes, lessons learned and implementation processes.

Matt Burns, Director eCommerce Solutions at Premier discusses the $200B explosion of health care supply chain e-commerce usage during the two years since the COVID-19 pandemic began and the variety of ways organizations are using it to increase revenue and improve transparency and operations management.   

Trisha Smith, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, GHX VendorMate discusses various checks and balances to minimize risk in working with a new vendor.

The Introduction to Health Care Supply Chain eLearning courses provide grounded education for those new or seeking a refresher.

This advanced course leads learners through 10 areas of infrastructure surrounding the functions of health care supply chain management.

Listen as Elizabeth Hilla, Senior Vice President, Health Industry Distributors Association (HIDA), discusses the most successful strategic sourcing strategies during the pandemic and health care supply chain resiliency leading practices, including stockpiling considerations and established supplier relationships. 3 Forward-Thinking Strategic Sourcing Methods

Dr. Jimmy Chung, Chief Medical Officer, Advantus Health Partners, Bon Secours Mercy Health discusses how physician leadership was critical during the COVID-19 pandemic, development of defined physician leader roles and creating a permanent physician leader position in supply chain organizations. 

Consider how direct sourcing can enable access to PPE and the leading practices of building supply chain diversity and resiliency for the future in this Banner Health case study.

Enhance your knowledge of health care supply chain management with our Introduction to Health Care Supply Chain course. Improve patient care and operational efficiency.

Consider how the four emerging themes on purchased services and their leading practices can deliver improved margins.

Are you winning the battle against rising purchased services costs and surviving financially in a post-COVID environment?

Michael Brown, Director of Supply Chain Management and Eric Swaim, Manager of Strategic Sourcing and Vendor Management at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston share their unique approach to sourcing PPE supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic and how they plan to continue sourcing in the future.