GHX Value Analysis
A clinically integrated supply chain is a strategic approach that aligns clinical supply chain management with patient care goals. This integration can help to ensure an uninterrupted supply of clinical products, lower costs and improve overall healthcare delivery.
By focusing on supply chain initiatives and clinical demands, clinically integrated supply chain operations play an increasingly important role in modern healthcare.
GHX Value Analysis provide health systems with critical tools for clinical supply chain management. From advanced analytics to consulting services, our offerings ensure that supply chain partners work in tandem with clinical teams, leading to cost-effective and quality-assured care delivery.
Improved Patient Outcomes
Enhanced patient care through reliable and effective supply chain management.
Reduced costs
Operational efficiencies lead to lower costs in supply chain and clinical operations.
Increased efficiency
Streamlined supply chain processes deliver supplies needed without delay.
Stronger collaboration
Achieve greater communication between value analysis and clinical teams.
Product Introduction Management enables a modernized, sophisticated product review that engages physicians, standardizes value analysis processes and helps ensure that product approvals are limited to only those products that have demonstrated improved clinical value.
Category Optimization uses data pulled directly from your health system to provide evidence-based savings strategies, spend and utilization insights, and tracking capabilities to help ensure your initiatives are on-target and compliant.
Physician-Level Analytics analyzes medical device utilization at the physician level to provide evidence-based and clinically relevant insights that help support sourcing decisions and variation management.
GHX Strategic Sourcing Consulting provides dedicated project management and analytical support to help facilitate and drive savings goals and gain alignment with physicians.
Customer Testimonial
Hear from Memorial Hospital at Gulfport about their journey to a clinically integrated supply chain and organizational maturity through the implementation of new workflows, dynamic committees and standardized processes with GHX Value Analysis.
Case Study
Explore how Memorial Hospital at Gulfport transformed its value analysis processes, driving savings and reducing clinical variation.
Case Study
GHX helped OHSU identify a savings opportunity, which facilitated vendor pricing negotiations, saving $400k on a total of $2 million shoulder device spend in this small-volume category.
Assessing your clinical supply chain's current integration state using a range of factors is the first step to developing strategic goals that are challenging and achievable.
The GHX Value Analysis clinical integration maturity model outlines the stages of integrating supply chain management with clinical teams, driving improvements in patient care and supply efficiency.
Clinically integrating your supply chain with GHX is a strategic process that can enhance patient care, reduce costs and strengthen alignment with physicians. Through these steps, GHX Value Analysis aims to help hospitals and health systems create a clinically integrated supply chain that not only meets the operational needs of health systems but also significantly enhances the patient experience.
Book a demoOutline your objectives for integrating supply chain and clinical operations.
Focus on the importance of harmonizing supply chain management with patient needs, ensuring that patients receive uninterrupted care.
Engage key players across supply chain and clinical teams, including hospitals' clinical supply organizations and healthcare providers.
Incorporate investigator experiences to understand the nuanced needs of different departments and their impact on patients.
Assess your current supply chain structure and processes and identify for improvement.
Focus on critical elements like uninterrupted supply, quality assurance, and the timely delivery of clinical supplies needed for patient care.
Create a strategy that aligns supply chain management with clinical needs.
Consider the other benefits of a streamlined supply chain, such as reduced costs, improved product quality, and resilient inventory levels in the event of backorders.
Execute the strategy and diligently monitor its impact. Track improvements in supply chain processes, the effectiveness in meeting patient demands, and the overall improvement in healthcare delivery.
Regularly assess the plan against set goals to ensure continuous improvement and adaptation to unexpected events in the healthcare supply chain.
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A CISC harmonizes clinical priorities and supply chain initiatives. It ensures that clinical supply organizations maintain uninterrupted supply and quality assurance, aligning resources with patient care needs.
Key benefits include reduced costs, increased operational efficiency, uninterrupted supply of clinical supplies, and improved patient outcomes. It also ensures that supplies needed for care are always available, reducing the risk of missing doses and other unexpected issues.
Implementation involves defining clear goals, analyzing current supply chain processes, engaging key physician stakeholders who can add their critical voices to the conversation, and developing a strategic, multi-disciplinary plan. This ensures an efficient healthcare supply chain that responds to clinical demands, maintains high fulfillment levels and helps contribute to overall savings targets.
Clinical integration ensures that patient care is supported by effective supply chains. It helps in not missing critical supplies, thus directly impacting the patient experience and treatment outcomes.
Clinical supply chains are crucial for ensuring that hospitals and healthcare facilities have the necessary supplies for uninterrupted patient care. They play a vital role in managing costs, increasing collaboration between supply chain and clinical teams, maintaining product quality, and ensuring the availability of essential medical supplies.
GHX integrates quality assurance into its supply chain management solutions by monitoring supply chain activities, ensuring product quality, and maintaining high standards for the procurement and evaluation of clinical supplies.
