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VUEMED, Optimé Team Up to Give Hospitals Ability to Track, Analyze All Supply Data
SKOKIE, IL — (Marketwired – Apr 17, 2013) — VUEMED and Optimé Supply Chain, two leaders in healthcare supply chain technology, have joined forces to create OptiVue™, an exclusive Web-based software solution that gives hospital managers and administrators … Continue reading
Embracing Accountability
In this issue of our newsletter two of my associates weigh in. Joe Sheil waxes eloquent on the skills and traits that make a good musician and a good data analyst … and he should know. And Fred Crans, never … Continue reading
Benchmarking 101
We are all familiar with benchmarking as it pertains to business performance. The other day I decided to look up the history of the term. According to Overclock.net, an online forum on maximizing computer performance: “A benchmark is a point … Continue reading
The Dollars are in the Details
Do you know any musicians? How about serious musicians – highly trained, highly skilled and incredibly dedicated? Well, I do. In fact, I know three intimately – my daughter Parker, my son Eamon and their mother, Debra. Parker studies classical … Continue reading
Embracing Accountability
In this issue of our newsletter two of my associates weigh in. Joe Sheil waxes eloquent on the skills and traits that make a good musician and a good data analyst … and he should know. And Fred Crans, never … Continue reading
The Dollars are in the Details
Do you know any musicians? How about serious musicians – highly trained, highly skilled and incredibly dedicated? Well, I do. In fact, I know three intimately – my daughter Parker, my son Eamon and their mother, Debra. Parker studies classical … Continue reading
The Many Returns of Data Synchronization
In my last ED-itorial, I wrote about how we need to do a better job of documenting/tracking/tracing supplies so we can keep patients safer. It is a difficult, tedious and potentially costly endeavor, but there is a significant return. The … Continue reading
Six Rs for a Transformed Supply Chain
Take a look around. Look closely; look critically. Ask yourself this question: Where are the leaders? How can you answer this question? Access all the media channels. Turn on the television and go to the “news” channels. Go online and … Continue reading
The Many Returns of Data Synchronization
In my last ED-itorial, I wrote about how we need to do a better job of documenting/tracking/tracing supplies so we can keep patients safer. It is a difficult, tedious and potentially costly endeavor, but there is a significant return. The … Continue reading
Supply Chain Lessons from an Epidemic
Months after it began, the fungal meningitis outbreak continues, with the CDC recently reporting a total of 620 cases and 39 deaths so far in 19 states involved. I have been watching closely how one IDN that has received many … Continue reading
