Why now is the time to automate your implant orders

“I would say that we were the driver in helping our teams understand what was possible. That would be one thing we had to continuously do and would say to all of you as well. This is possible. It can be done.”  Jack Koczela, Froedtert Health, Director of Supply Chain Services

Health systems and their suppliers have long looked for ways to simplify implant orders to reduce costs, save time, improve contract and invoice accuracy, and provide better patient care by making sure the right implants are available.

During the 2022 GHX Summit Automating Bill-Only Implant Orders panel presentation, supply chain leaders from three U.S. health systems, Froedtert Health, Mount Sinai Health System and Stanford Health Care, explained to attendees why the time to automate implant orders is now and shared their stories on how they did it.

The Path to the "Perfect Order"

• Pete Nelson, General Manager, Global Alliances

In healthcare, the long-held view of a “perfect order” is one where a purchase order is processed electronically — from order to payment — without human intervention.

Achieving the perfect order hasn’t been easy. A lack of automation throughout the payment cycle created all kinds of barriers to achieving the perfect order. 

Bring Simplicity to Healthcare: Let’s Start With One Map to All Trading Partners

• Denise Odenkirk, Vice President, Supplier Sales

In healthcare, we have a history of complexity that drives some of the current costs of healthcare.  Bringing a new, innovative device or drug to market is an incredibly long, complex and costly process. Now add onto that our incredibly complex supply chain processes, which require the distribution of goods and services across a variety of points of care.

Snow again… Are You Digging Out of a Pile of Faxes?

• Denise Odenkirk, Vice President, Supplier Sales

Winter has been tough this year. It has been especially tough on customer service departments.

Why?