LOUISVILLE, Colo., July 30 /PRNewswire/ — One of the biggest
challenges faced by healthcare providers today is gaining control
of the purchase of physician preference items (PPI), such as
orthopedic implants, cardiac stents, pacemakers and other advanced
medical devices, which can be among the most expensive items that
hospitals buy. GHX will present strategies for optimizing
procurement processes, especially around PPI, at the AHRMM 2010
Annual Conference & Exhibition, to be held Aug. 1-4 in Denver.
To highlight practical applications of effective PPI management
within a provider organization, Dale
Locklair, vice president, procurement and construction,
McLeod Health, will lead in-booth discussions at Booth #401 on
Monday, Aug. 2. An area in which
procurement optimization can have a big impact is in the ordering
of products for the operating room (OR)—specifically,
high-cost implantables. In his presentations, Locklair will discuss
how McLeod Health has saved more than $2
million in just six months since implementing new procedures
in the OR. Locklair will present the sessions, entitled “Creating a
Supply Chain Without Walls,” at 2
p.m. and 3 p.m. MDT. No
registration is necessary.
Physician preference items frequently account for as much as 40
percent of a hospital system’s medical-surgical supply spend,
according to Datamonitor, a provider of global business
information. Many of those items are not in a hospital’s enterprise
resource planning (ERP) or materials management information system
(MMIS), which makes them difficult to manage. PPI purchases,
meanwhile, are estimated to be growing at a compoun
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