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Health systems nationwide are faced with industry wide supply challenges: supplies make up the second largest expenditure category after labor1, and 8.9% of those supplies are typically wasted2. Northwestern Medicine is committed to continuous improvement, and as part, have completed a multi-year journey to improve their clinical supply chain. Supply Chain Leaders developed a new approach to optimize processes and collaborate with clinical partners to deliver significant outcomes for the health system.

The Northwestern Medicine story

Learn how Northwestern Medicine established a proven strategy to roll out supply chain technology in 38 departments and across 11 hospitals.

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Practical implementation and optimization of a clinical supply chain technology.

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78% decresase in expired products

50% decrease in supply waste

11% reduction in owned inventory

 

 

About WaveMark™ Solutions

As your digitally automated clinical supply chain solution, WaveMark™ Solutions links product usage to the patient record at the moment of care, providing both inventory documentation and insights to support real-time product level availability and help protect patients from recalled or expired products.

 

References:1. Moons K, Waeyenbergh G, Pintelon L. Measuring the logistics performance of internal hospital supply chains- A literature study. Omega. 2018;82:205–217. 2. Cardinal HealthTM WaveMarkTM Solutions. (n.d.). The outcomes of implementing WaveMarkTM Solutions. In Cardinal HealthTM WaveMarkTM Solutions. https://www.cardinalhealth.com/content/dam/corp/web/documents/case-study/cardinal-health-wavemark-tackle-supply-waste-and-expiration.pdf