Readmissions are a major problem for many healthcare organizations in the U.S. According to AHRQ’s Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (click here), the overall readmission rate in the United States was 13.9% in 2016, with the average cost across any type of principal diagnosis being about $14,400. Given this strain on the healthcare industry, it […]
Tag: Technology
Innovative Monitoring Technologies Can Curb Opioid Misuse
Over 63,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses in 2016, per the CDC—topping both the more than 50,000 deaths at the peak of the AIDS crisis in 1995 and the nearly 38,000 deaths from car accidents in 2016. Opioids present a prescription drug crisis on a never-before-seen scale that is affecting the ways hospitals and health […]
Technology in the Supply Chain: How to Get the Most Out of Your Systems
By:
Jake Jenkins
Date:
February 14, 2017
Category:
Supply Chain
Filed under:
Data Analytics, Demand Planning, Parkview Health, Point-of-Use, Technology, Warehouse Management
Healthcare supply chain leaders are always looking for ways to push greater efficiencies and maximize the cost savings potential of their operations. The use of technology has become indispensable to that quest. Donna Van Vlerah, President of Supply Chain at Parkview Health, shared what she looks for in three technological solutions she calls her “nirvana”—a […]
