In our follow-up with Karla Hoffman and Jennifer Carberry from Family Services, a part of the Community and Family Services line of programming at Sheppard Pratt, we find out how they're providing care to vulnerable populations while dealing wi

The Care in Healthcare: Family Services Providing Support To Their Community

Nov 17th, 2020 5m 22s

For the first time on the podcast, we're profiling a recipient of the 50 For 50 program, which donates $5000 to a charity nominated online. This episode, Carl Natenstedt talks to Karla Hoffman and Jennifer Carberry from Family Services, a part

How Well Do Your Representatives Represent Healthcare?

Nov 2nd, 2020 3m 54s

How many government representatives have backgrounds in healthcare? What about the supply chain? How accurately do government officials' experiences reflect your own experience in our shared field? In this unusual - for a couple reasons - episo

Sourcing Medical Product from Nontraditional Vendors

Oct 27th, 2020 5m 21s

The coronavirus crisis has caused a lot of healthcare providers to consider the value of near shoring at least a portion of their supply sourcing. We explore why that's happened and what the benefits are to integrating the secondary market into

Gaining Trust From Clinical Staff To Enable Innovation

Oct 20th, 2020 4m 45s

How do you find supply chain champions among your clinicians? Where should innovation start within the organization? And what insights will you need to determine whether a new solution is working or not? We get help answering these questions fr

Predicting The Future Of Supply Chain Management

Oct 13th, 2020 5m 24s

What kinds of changes can we start making now to prevent future supply chain failures? How much change will be technology VS strategy? And how has COVID-19 changed our plans? These questions and more addressed by this week's return guest, Micha

How Hospitals Successfully Procure PPE

Oct 6th, 2020 4m 52s

What did Steward Health Care do differently to make sure that no hospital, no clinician, and no support worker was ever denied PPE? We talk to our customer and collaborator Michael Prokopis to find out in this week's episode. In every episode

The Need For Hospitals' Savings

Sep 29th, 2020 4m 50s

How can hospitals use savings in other areas - like medical benefits management - to ensure solvency during a crisis like the one we're facing now? We put these questions and more to Brian Vossler of Ventegra in this week's episode. In every ep

Emergency Preparedness Through Cooperation

Sep 22nd, 2020 5m 10s

How prepared were hospitals for the coronavirus crisis? And can healthcare providers overcome competition to lend each other aid in their time of need? Once again we rely on Hays Waldrop of the Council of Supply Chain Executives to answer our q

The Power of the Procurement Professional

Sep 15th, 2020 4m 59s

Have procurement pros earned more power during the coronavirus crisis or fallen in favor? Have procurement strategies significantly changed because of supply shortages? Answers to these questions and more from Hays Waldrop of the Council of Sup

How COVID-19 Changed Hospitals' Communication

Sep 8th, 2020 4m 44s

Have hospitals changed how they're communicating with vendors? Have they changed how they're communicating internally? Has it been an uphill slog, or have they adapted rapidly? Answers to these questions and more from Hays Waldrop of the Counci

Monitoring Spaces During Activity To Prevent Infection

Sep 1st, 2020 5m 11s

Once again we got to quiz the experts of Onsite-LLC on infection prevention best practices - this time highlighting the importance of monitoring your spaces for possible contamination while those spaces are being used. You can't track circulati

How To Prevent Infection with Onsite-LLC

Aug 25th, 2020 5m 4s

What are some simple ways to lower your risk of spreading infections within your facilities - whether they're sterile medical environments, office buildings, or public schools? We posed that question and several others in this first part of our

Adopting An Innovation Mindset

Aug 18th, 2020 5m 30s

Evaluating a tech offering is important, but you'll never get to that stage if you haven't opened yourself up to the idea of improvement. So in Part 2 of our talk about adopting new technologies to improve your care delivery, we focus on the mo

How To Evaluate Tech Without Tech Expertise

Aug 11th, 2020 5m 10s

It's inevitable: you're going to have to make a decision to adopt a technology whether or not you fully understand it. But picking out a vendor for your business ought to be more involved than choosing what cell phone you'll buy next. And picki

Questions To Ask Your Next Tech Partner

Aug 4th, 2020 5m 28s

Here's a list of questions that any AI/ML vendor should be able to answer. If they can't - or they say that these questions aren't important - you probably shouldn't let them work with you, your hospital, or your data. In every episode of Take

Making Sure Hospital Vendors Get COVID-19 Tested

Jul 28th, 2020 4m 43s

If you're allowing vendors into your facilities, do you know their coronavirus testing policies? And if you're not allowing vendors into your facilities right now, do you have the technology to pick up their slack? In every episode of Take 5: A

Using AI To Predict The Unpredictable

Jul 21st, 2020 5m 15s

If Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are so powerful, why couldn't they see the coronavirus crisis coming? And why should supply chain pros spend time compiling data when they have so much else to worry about? We welcome back tech wu

What AI Can Do For Healthcare's Supply Chain

Jul 14th, 2020 5m 2s

AI and ML (artificial intelligence and machine learning) are already transforming hospital inventory management. There's no point in pretending that's not the case. So we got an expert to discuss what they are and how they can be used to save h

How Hospital Leaders Should Communicate During A Crisis

Jul 8th, 2020 5m 11s

More than ever - and probably more than they're used to - hospitals are being scrutinized for their emergency response. So what are the responsibilities of hospital leadership in keeping the public informed during the coronavirus crisis? In eve

Are Hospitals Prepared for a Second Wave?

Jun 30th, 2020 5m 38s

The question was simple this week: have hospitals and their supply chain adapted enough to ready for another spike in COVID-19 cases? Is there enough PPE, and can we get to it fast enough? That and more in this episode. In every episode of Take

Some Hospitals Actually Have Too Much PPE

Jun 23rd, 2020 5m 16s

Welcome to Take 5: An Inventory Series, where we take five minutes to cover what's going on with healthcare's supply chain. We were surprised this week to see conflicting information about PPE. Is there too much of it or not enough? How can we

Hospital Vendor Relations During COVID-19 (Part 2)

Jun 16th, 2020 4m 59s

Welcome to Take 5: An Inventory Series, where we take five minutes to tackle what's going on with healthcare's supply chain. Now that you've listened to Part 1 and are prepared to walk into a hospital, in Part 2, we share what's changed within

Hospital Vendor Relations During COVID-19 (Part 1)

Jun 9th, 2020 5m 2s

Welcome to Take 5: An Inventory Series, where we take five minutes to tackle what's going on with healthcare's supply chain. This week we're sharing our experiences working with and in hospitals during the coronavirus crisis so that other vendo

Rural Hospitals Are Hit Hardest in a Crisis

Jun 2nd, 2020 5m 21s

Welcome to Take 5: An Inventory Series, where we take five minutes to tackle what's going on with healthcare's supply chain. This episode we explore the challenges facing rural hospitals and those isolated facilities' options for remaining open