Focus Groups

Taking Back Ownership of Your Supply Chain Strategy

Gone are the days where GPO equals supply chain. Today’s healthcare environment requires providers to adopt and truly own their supply chain function. That means developing a strong supply chain strategy first and leveraging your GPO to support it – not the other way around. Let’s talk about the ideal supply chain approach. What role does or should a GPO play in supporting your supply chain strategy? Join this session to discuss applying a consumer mindset to healthcare supply chain and learn how Advantus Health Partners, a supply chain company with a GPO, envisions vendor relationships of the future.

Breaking the Savings Barrier

For the 10th consecutive year, your health system faces an 8-figure savings target. Each budget cycle, you return to the well, squeezing savings from every stone. Now, the C-suite demands even more unprecedented speed. What do you do when the organization wants to move faster than your resources will allow? In this focus group, we'll dissect these critical budget challenges and explore innovative solutions to ensure your team leads the charge in driving essential savings.

How Do You Automate Pharmacy Procurement?

In this session, we will explore how Trulla optimizes pharmacy purchasing by automating cost-saving measures and driving NDC standardization. We will discuss methods to streamline procurement processes, enhance financial efficiency, and help minimize the impact of drug shortages for your pharmacy operations. Join us in this interactive conversation to revolutionize your purchasing strategy and maximize savings.

Realizing Your Negotiated Savings on Purchased Service Agreements through Technology and Automation

Join an in-depth discussion on how technology and automation strategies can help your IDN receive the value and savings you've negotiated on complex contracts and purchased service agreements. We will explore best practices for real-time reconciliation, detailed line-item error identification, automated pricing checks, time savings, cost reduction, and more.

How Real-time Location Systems Can Positively Impact Healthcare Supply Chain and Operations

The technology for Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) has been around for years. So, what has kept the healthcare industry from capitalizing on this technology to enhance clinical asset tracking, supply chain management, and operations? Join TRIMEDX as we examine the historical challenges to RTLS adoption in healthcare, and how a purpose-built RTLS like TRIMEDX GeoSense can optimize clinical engineering workflows, save capital & operational expenses, and improve devices availability for patient care. We invite you to join in the discussion as we explore how the right RTLS can positively influence a health system’s operations.