Supply Chain

Michael Bohon, Managing Director—Healthcare Solutions Bureau How many times have you heard someone say the above statement as to why ideas, concepts and practices from other industries will not work in healthcare? Personally, I cannot […]

Diana Berkland, PhD, RN—Vice President, Nursing & Clinical Services, Sanford Health; Erica DeBoer, MA, RN, CCRN-K, CNL- Clinical Nurse Leader, Sanford Health; Tom Harvieux, MSc—Senior Executive Director, Corporate Supply Chain Management, Sanford Health; Andrew Hogan, BSc – Associate […]

How the Right Metrics, Combined with the Right Inventory Management Technologies, Ensure Accurate Data Collection and Analytics that Enable Providers to Optimize Their Inventory and Supply Spend: Case Studies from Leading Hospitals Arnold Chazal, CEO, […]

Robert W. Yokl, Vice President/COO, SVAH Solutions I have a love-hate relationship with the newest mantra of our healthcare supply chain industry which is Cost, Quality, and Outcomes. I love that we have a mantra […]

Michael Bohon, CPSM, C.P.M., CMRP, Managing Director of HealthCare Solutions Bureau Decisions, Decisions You, as the supply chain leader for your hospital organization, have been tasked with reducing the expenses under your control dramatically. Where […]

Michael Bohon, CPSM, C.P.M., CMRP, Managing Director of HealthCare Solutions Bureau In the healthcare environment there are so many opportunities for us to spend money in order to improve our organizations. There are the essentials – staffing, […]

Timothy Hagler At home in South Carolina we have a saying that is especially poignant when we see one of our good friends hanging out with their old hunting dogs. We say, “’tarnt a new […]

Robert T. Yokl Data in and of itself is useless, but if enhanced with clinical, financial and supply chain information to produce meaningful metrics it can become a powerful tool to uncover savings opportunities, quality and […]

Lynn Everard, Managing Director, Valumatrix, LLC In today's healthcare world there are only two things for sale: products and outcomes. In the hospital supply chain we have a long history of bringing down unit product […]

Robert T. Yokl “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” Warren Bennis You might think that great leadership is some superhuman activity, but it is really translating a vision into reality as author, scholar, and […]

“Every so often an idea, innovation, invention, and revolution appear in the marketplace that changes the game forever. We call these breakthroughs ‘Game Changers’ or the rules or variations that change the game enough that […]