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In a recent Supply Chain Leaders Series call, ANAE interviewed Troy Kirchenbauer, general manager for aptitude LLC (Irving, TX). Launched in April 2013, aptitude is the healthcare industry’s first online direct contracting market. The company seeks to drive innovation in the healthcare supply chain environment to create a more logical and empowered market. More than …

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A recent article on The Advisory Board’s website, “Three assumptions that blind you to savings opportunities in clinical supply spend,” discussed some simple and basic ways supply chain leaders at hospitals or IDNs can get additional value out of their supply contracts. It presents three “insidious” assumptions supply chain leaders often make: 1) Assuming you …

Supply Chain Execs Urged to Stop the Guessing GameRead More

Healthcare spending is up, according to a recent New York Times article. The annual pace of spending growth on healthcare increased 5.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to the Times. A report from IMS, a health care data and analytics firm, “found the use of the health care system increasing broadly in …

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In a recent Supply Chain Leaders Series call, ANAE interviewed Ray Seigfried, SVP at Christiana Care Health System (Wilmington, DE). Christiana Care Health System is an 1,100-bed healthcare network that serves Delaware, as well as the surrounding areas of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey. A not-for-profit, non-sectarian health system, Christiana Care is a major teaching …

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In a recent Supply Chain Leaders Series call, ANAE interviewed Dave Edwards, VP, supplier relations and contract uptake at Premier Inc (Charlotte, NC). Premier Inc (Charlotte, NC) is a healthcare performance improvement alliance of approximately 2,900 U.S. community hospitals and 100,000 alternate-care sites. Although Premier is primarily owned by its hospitals and health systems, an …

Dave Edwards of Premier, Inc. speaks on supply chain leader seriesRead More

A decade ago I started hearing people demand that a portion of their ad budgets be spent in online venues. Great branded companies insisting that 10, 15 even 25 percent of their budget to build their brand be spent online. Even today, I talk to Advertisers and I sometimes hear, “We are going all in …

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If your company is like so many in today’s healthcare supply chain landscape, you are seeing a drove of data coming your way. These days, many companies are absolutely fixated on Big Data and believe all the answers they need are in the actual data they already have. Wouldn’t it be great to open your …

Big Data Can Help Gain Big ResultsRead More