Power Supply

Have you squeezed all the juice out of line items savings?  Do you find yourself spending more and more time on RFPs and proposals that represent smaller and smaller savings?  Do you struggle to develop and coordinate value analysis committees that can work efficiently and deliver the results that make a true impact on the bottom line?  Well, then this episode is for you.  Bob  Yokl , an experienc...

How compliant is your hospital with managing product recalls? What if that one you miss causes a sentinel event? Everyone agrees the use of email and paper mailings to send notifications is vastly outdated, but what is the real opportunity to utilize technology and bring our recall potential into the 21 st century?  On this episode of Power Supply, Guillermo Ramas joins Hays Waldrop and Justin Pou...

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 be sterilized without any disassembly with a validated low-l...

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 this episode of the Power Supply podc...

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 Healthcare organizations by...

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 revenue cycle teammates in your organ...

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 patient needs and clinician values with a strategic sourcing initiat...

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 Purchasing Organization affiliations.  How have you leveraged your G...

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 of the Power Supply podcast, we sit down with Mark Olney to explain what...

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 and a newsletter that he shared by email with a few close colleagues.  The response was positiv...

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 to discuss several unique challenges, including chain of custody whe...

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.  The increasingly blurred line between work and life has been an incre...