Healthcare DIVE April 24, 2020
The complexity of managing a non-acute network of facilities is often significantly underestimated. Each specialty – from physician offices to surgery centers to home health – has different medical-surgical, pharmaceutical, and lab supply needs. Many non-acute sites also use different technologies to purchase and monitor inventory. Consequently, health systems with multiple non-acute care sites can struggle to gain visibility into their non-acute purchasing trends in order to meet organizational goals like cost reduction.
Using analytics built specifically for non-acute care sites can help deliver insights that alleviate process inefficiencies, drive standardization and reduce non-acute clinical spend. Analytical insights can also help your health system better manage product standardization to reduce clinical variation across your patient population.
Across the non-acute...