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Breathe Easy: Reusable Laryngoscope Systems Designed with Safety and Sustainability in Mind

In healthcare, small changes in regulations and disruptions in supply chain can have a ripple effect on an industry. On this Power Supply Vendor Spotlight, we talk with Christian Berling, VP of Sales and Marketing at Heine, about going back to the drawing board to manufacture the industry’s only reusable LED laryngoscope handle that can…

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Clinical Links in the Supply Chain: The Rising Impact of Nurses on Strategic Sourcing Initiatives

Value analysis committees have begun to focus on form and function for the front lines versus taking a traditional supplier-oriented approach with their strategic sourcing initiatives. Having clinical representation has been a key component to the success of these initiatives and the industry has seen more and more nurses becoming involved in supply chain. On…

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What’s Your ROI on VMI? Capturing Costs of Vendor Managed Inventory

Missing items and the associated reimbursements are an enormous challenge to controlling costs related to Vendor managed inventory. Transparency and quality data is integral to finding areas for improvement related to chargebacks. Keerthi Kanubaddi, CEO at ReadySet Surgical joins us for this episode of Power Supply to talk about the opportunity to align Suppliers and…

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Trifecta of Triumph: The Master Link between Supply Chain & Revenue Cycle

Supply Chain initiatives have a direct impact on the healthcare institution’s ability to generate revenue, but in many cases the collaboration is nearly non-existent. How do we bridge the gap between revenue cycle and supply chain to ensure a successful and coordinated effort? Kelli McRory from Jefferson Health in Philadelphia provides a roadmap for engaging…

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Change Management: The Art of Listening to the Internal Customer

Most often, change is met with some level of resistance. Large projects touch so many end users that the pressure mounts and it can be difficult to successfully engage many internal stakeholders. Dan Pfister has proven success with change management and joins us for this episode of Power Supply to share his secrets for aligning…

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Supply Operations Insights: Maximizing GPO Relationships

Consolidation has been occurring through healthcare, no matter what side of the table you have been sitting on for the past decade. GPOs have been no exception and sourcing strategies have been forced to change as well. Jeff Stevens shares his extensive experience and perspective on how to get the best value from your Group…

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Drowning in Data: How Much is Too Much?

These days everyone is in love with big data and the insights that can be gleaned from them thanks to the computing power we now have available. However, managing large data sets comes with its own challenges, such as establishing and maintaining the integrity of the information that is being collected. On this week’s episode…

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For the Love of Statistics: Mining Data to Combat Cryptic Media Messaging

Mark Van Sumeren was concerned by what he was seeing and reading in the media during the early days of the pandemic and so he began to do his own research. Motivated to counter the denial and fear mongering, he put his engineering background to use and began to collate information into a daily insights…

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Logistically Speaking – An Enormous Need for PPE and Increasing Costs Demand Innovation

The global healthcare crisis has impacted the supply chain not only in terms of a decreasing supply to meet an unprecedented increase in demand, but also how hospitals are able to receive supplies due to access restrictions imposed to control the spread of infection. Mike Palazzini joins us on this week’s episode of Power Supply…

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Do Your Homework: Successful Strategies for Managing Work and Life at Home

Is your schedule filled with back-to-back Teams meetings? Are you answering emails late into the evening? Have you struggled to stay active over the past year? The idea of working from home sounds great when you are commuting to the office every day, but that fantasy has not become reality as many professionals have learned….

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