Health Systems

Take control in removing excess costs. We help align your supply sourcing to your GPO strategies. Reduce expenses, eliminate waste and manage a more cost-effective product formulary with our help. What’s more, we can help identify revenue generation opportunities like implementing point-of-care testing and reimbursement tools.

Take the next step to deliver better care across your non-acute continuum. Spend more time with patients and less time managing your supply chain. We help support quality care and patient access through a patient home delivery program, patient care programs for chronic care management, infection prevention and help in avoiding readmissions.

Achieve better outcomes when you align stakeholders across your non-acute to achieve your organizational goals. Lean on Six Sigma and project management experts for process assessments, evaluation and recommendations.

Make smart decisions with customized analytics that bring you the information you need.

What are the ordering trends across your non-acute settings? Do you know the rate of usage of your most frequently ordered supplies? Having this data readily accessible can enable you to predict and automate future orders so that clinicians can focus on patient care instead of on product inventory.

Automate processes so your staff can spend more time with patients, and less time on paperwork.

How automated are your current non-acute supply chain processes? Automation is paramount to keeping costs down, and the quality of care up, according to Liz Hayes, Health Systems Technology Manager at McKesson. If you can automate back-end office functions, like procurement, you give more time back to the clinicians to spend on patient care and improve provider satisfaction.

Create a supply cost management plan that helps you make the most of your contracts.

Do you have a strategy that drives your underlying product cost decisions? Is it based on GPO compliance or on the lowest cost? How are you leveraging your aggregated volume to negotiate vendor contracts? How are you operationalizing these cost source strategies? Negotiating a great contract is just the beginning when it comes to driving down the cost of products.

Gain better visibility so you know what’s happening at each non-acute facility.

How does visibility into your system’s non-acute settings drive overall business goals? “As care moves out of the acute setting and into specialized non-acute settings, it becomes even more critical to ensure supply chain financial and decision support in those care settings,” states Jacob Hookom, Vice President of Customer Experience, Information Technology at McKesson. “This visibility helps improve your bottom line, and can help identify and measure operational efficiencies, care standardization, and contract compliance outside the four walls of the facility.”

Find opportunities to save money by standardizing products.

How does your system ensure that all non-acute locations are on formulary, and are meeting compliance goals? Although non-acute settings vary, there is still room for standardization of supply chain processes. The process of standardizing non-acute supply chain operations begins with the quality and scope of the data and analytics available to those responsible for supply chain operations.

Reduce readmissions with post-acute and home care programs.

How and where are medical supplies currently delivered to your organization’s post-acute care settings? If post-acute supplies are not being delivered directly to clinicians or patients at the point-of-care (including home health settings), clinicians may be wasting valuable time chasing down supplies, or patients may not have the necessary products to care for themselves properly at home.

Get better results by moving lab testing closer to patients.

How focused is your lab strategy on workflow efficiency as it relates to operational, clinical and financial feasibility? How integrated are your supply chain and lab functions – do they work together to impact revenue, increase patient satisfaction and clinical outcomes?

Strengthen your Rx supply chain with one of the industry’s largest portfolios of products.

How does your health system ensure that non-acute clinicians are meeting formulary and regulatory requirements for ordering, managing, dispensing pharmaceuticals, as well as disposing of unused drugs? How many suppliers are involved in providing pharmaceuticals to non-acute sites? The pharmaceutical supply chain is yet another area in which consolidation of suppliers and standardization leads to synergies across all settings.

Lead change across your health system and experience better outcomes.

Healthcare is always changing. Effectively managing through these changes requires great alignment of stakeholders and processes. Do you speak the same language as your stakeholders? Do you understand their goals? Do they understand how you can help them achieve those goals? One of your greatest challenges might be getting buy-in from the many stakeholders across the non-acute continuum. If so, you’re not alone.