HOT TOPICS:
Supply Chain Strategies and Solutions: Every One Wins with Synchronized Data:
A Manufacturer Perspective - by Dennis Black
Every transaction in the healthcare supply chain–from contracting to procurement to payment to rebates–would benefit from accurate, up-to-date, consistent data. Read the article online.
U.S. Medicine: Joint Incentive Fund Encourages VA/DoD Partnerships
By Dr. Stephen Jones
The VA and DoD Joint Executive Council meets quarterly to address the current
issues in DoD/VA sharing. During one of our recent meetings, we had the
opportunity to hear about the successes of our VA/DoD Joint Incentive Fund
(JIF). Read the article online.
Supply Chain Strategies and Solutions: Stop Playing the Waiting Game: Be a Part
of the Standards Solution NOW - by Jean Sargent
Now, it is more important than ever that everyone in the healthcare supply chain
speak the same language. Read the article online.
Supply Chain Strategies and Solutions: Synchronized Data Presents Compelling
Opportunities for Materials Managers - by Kathleen Garvin
The healthcare industry is finally mobilizing to unify around a single source
and set of global standards for the synchronization of product information. Read the article online.
hfm Magazine: Stop The Supply Chain Insanity: Retail As A Model For Hospitals
by David A. Belkoski
The healthcare industry needs to follow the example of its retail counterparts
and implement a product data utility system. Read the article online.
Materials Management in Healthcare: Part 2-Hospital lessons in data synch
by Erin Burke
In last month’s issue, vendors who participated in the Department of Defense’s data synchronization pilot program detailed their experiences, but several
hospitals assumed leading roles beside vendors in the data synchronization
pilot. Read the article online.
Materials Management in Healthcare: Part 1-Progressive pilots
by Erin Burke
The DoD launched its Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN) pilot for the
health care industry in December 2006. More than a year has passed since the
project’s inception and though standards have yet to be implemented, industry sources
say they are coming soon. Click here to read the article online.
HPN Daily Update: CHeS Sponsors New Web Series on Healthcare Data Synch
CHeS Press Release
AHRMM, CHeS and the HSCSC are co-sponsoring a five-part webinar series this
spring on product data and synchronization in healthcare. Each session will
focus its attention on GS1 standards and the GDSN for healthcare. Click here to read the article online.
Dail-eNews: BD recognized as Innovative Business Performer of the Year
BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (Franklin Lakes, NJ) received the Innovative
Business Performer of the Year Award in the large business category from the
Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) (Lathrop, CA). BD also demonstrated overall
excellence in superior product quality, on-time delivery, superior customer
service, reliability, dependability, consistency and accuracy. Becton Dickinson
has implemented new innovative business processes to improve the quality of the
customer service and products it provides to the DLA and military treatment
facilities throughout the world. (This is the article in its entirety.)
Materials Management in Healthcare: GS1 Healthcare US helps push data standards
for industry - by Paula DeJohn
GS1 Healthcare US is the new chapter of a worldwide organization dedicated to
ensuring commerce runs smoothly by developing and enforcing common electronic
identifiers for products and customers. Read the article online.
Supply Chain Strategies and Solutions: Standardize and Sync Product Data to
Benefit Our Ultimate Customer: The Patient - by Frank Fernandez
As a nation, we have found a way to ship DVDs, books, and thousands of other
consumer goods in an efficient, just-in-time fashion with high fill rates,
accurate pricing, and unparalleled customer service. Imagine the possibilities
if the $2 trillion healthcare industry employed such an efficient system for
its supply chain! Click here to read the article online.
Supply Chain Strategies and Solutions: Synchronized Data Presents Compelling
Opportunities for Materials Managers - by Kathleen Garvin
The healthcare industry is finally mobilizing to unify around a single source
and set of global standards for the synchronization of product information. Read the article online.
Supply Chain Strategies and Solutions: Data Standards Implementation: We’re All Responsible- by Joe Dudas
The supply chain has advanced in other industries (retail, auto, grocery), but
the healthcare industry is just now learning the benefits of electronic
commerce, vendor-managed inventory, evaluated receipts settlement, and JIT
replenishment. Read the article online.
Materials Management in Healthcare: The time is now to help build supply chain
standardization in the industry - by Jean Sargent
Standards have been in use in the grocery industry since the early 1970s. I am
certain that I am not the only health care supply chain professional who is
frustrated that we do not have this capability in our facilities. But, times
are changing. Click here to read the article online.
Materials Management in Healthcare:
HSCSC standards initiative can help us get in sync - by Mary Ann Michalski
Health care supply chain data standards are at our fingertips. Doesn’t it seem as though the industry has been waiting on this for too long? Well
hopefully, the end is drawing near. Click here to read the article online.
Materials Management in Healthcare: New year, same issues: What’s to come in ‘08
by Erin Burke
As of late, this behemoth project (the implementation of standards) has taken on
a life of its own, morphing into what appears to be progress. Click here to read the article online.
GS1 Healthcare US Formed to Help Health Care Industry Meet Changing Needs, New
Challenges - GS1 US Press Release
GS1 US announced today that it has formed GS1 Healthcare US, a new industry-led
group designed to help the U.S. healthcare industry improve patient safety & increase supply-chain efficiency through the adoption and wide-scale
implementation of GS1® global standards. Click here to download the release in PDF format.
Healthcare Supply Chain Standards Coalition Endorses Standards For
Organizational and Product Identifiers - HSCSC Press Release
The HSCSC, a collaborative of 28 organizations representing the entire
healthcare supply chain, is endorsing GS1‘s Global Location Number (GLN) for organizational identification and its Global
Trade Identification Number (GTIN) for product identification. Click here to download the article in PDF format.
DoD and VA to Reduce Healthcare Supply Chain Costs
DoD Defense Logistics Agency Press Release
Through innovative joint incentive funding, the DoD and VA are linking and
expanding their ongoing initiatives to both standardize and synchronize product
information between
Materials Management in Health Care: Solve a Unique Challenge
by John DiConsiglio
According to an October 2006 Premier survey, more than 80% of health care
professionals believe that an industrywide UDI for medical devices would
enhance patient safety. Other studies prove that billions of dollars could be
saved. Click here to read the article online.
Materials Management in Health Care: Hope for unique device identification after
all
by Erin Burke
The topic of unique device identification (UDI) has the health care industry all
abuzz. Depending on who you talk to, UDI is either headed for certain
advancement or will continue to remain where it is—in limbo. Click here to read the article online.
Materials Management in Health Care: Improving Health Care Through
Synchronization - by Jean Sargent, 2007 President, AHRMM
AHRMM is a driving force pushing for adoption of an organizational identifier,
RFID, bar codes, product data utility, data synchronization, classification
system, etc., which are the foundational blocks needed for supply chain
efforts. Click here to read the article online.
Healthcare Purchasing News: 2007 Materials Management Honor Roll: University
Health Care System - Leading by Example
UHCS has created its own pilot product data utility (PDU), a short-term step to
solve immediate supply chain needs, for sure, but with long-term implications.
Supply Chain Solutions: Data Quality: The Foundation for Significant Supply
Chain Enhancements / by Peggy Brody, Executive Director, CHeS
A new push is on to streamline the hospital supply chain by establishing an
industrywide product ID system designed to save millions of dollars, while also
improving patient safety. Click here to download the article in PDF format.
Hospital Materials Management: May 2007 Newsletter
Last year’s AHRMM president shares his thoughts regarding the need for a PDU to ensure
safety in the event of a product recall; learn some of the cost-saving tips of
one Illinois health system, which saved more than $3 million in one year; more.
Healthcare Purchasing News: Healthcare embraces that synching feeling -
Clearing the fog on what data synchronization really means
Second of two parts / by Rick Dana Barlow
As data sync proponents wage battles of will against apathy, confusion and
procrastination hospitals are left wondering whether history is repeating
itself all over again.
AHRMM’s Supply Chain Strategies and Solutions: Are You Out of Sync?
By Mike Brown, Director of Purchasing, University Health Care System
University is participating in the pilot of the Global Data Synchronization
Network (GDSN). This non-profit global platform will secure the exchange of
product information and allow all trading partners to have consistent item data
in their systems at the same time. Click here to download the article in PDF format.
Healthcare Purchasing News: Drowning in data, health care needs a life raft
by Mark Biviano
We don’t have a shortage of data – we’re often drowning in it – what we lack is a way to structure and organize it so that it’s useful across the entire health care continuum. It’s about health care information, not information technology. Click here to read the entire article.
Healthcare Purchasing News: In sync: Getting the supply chain act together
by Larry Levine
Medical product identification records are often inaccurate, resulting in a wide
array of inefficiencies in the health care components of the federal
government, as well as in the medical and surgical supply chains. Click here to read the entire article.
Healthcare Purchasing News: Sync or Swim: Who should blink first and why?
First of two parts / by Rick Dana Barlow
Invariably, someone will mention the ... "Catch-22" debate that effectively has
stalled, if not stymied, universal acceptance, adoption and implementation of
standardized electronic commerce and synchronized data capabilities for more
than two decades.
Healthcare Purchasing News: Why health care shouldn’t replicate manufacturing, retail / by Rick Dana Barlow
During such crises, manufacturers and retailers simply need to create and
distribute more product and quickly – classic, fundamental supply and demand. But health care providers also have to
deal with hundreds, if not thousands, of human widgets and countless potential
complications from treatment. Click here to read the entire article.
Defense Logistics Agency News Release: Reduced Costs and Streamlined Health Care
Supply Chain
Pilot expands existing data synchronization program to create industry-wide
resource of health care product information. Click here to download the release in .doc format.
HFM: The Time is Right for Supply Data Synchronization
by Peggy Brody, Executive Director, CHeS
Applying industry-wide standards to electronic data processing in the health
care supply chain can help eliminate problems that arise due to bad purchasing
data.
