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GHX to Sponsor Feb. 16 HFMA Webinar on Transforming the Healthcare Supply Chain Into a Strategic Asset
Featuring Dale Locklair of McLeod Health, the event will explore how healthcare providers can improve business and clinical performance by aligning supply chain strategy to corporate vision
LOUISVILLE, Colo., Feb. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- In today's financially turbulent environment, healthcare supply chain and finance executives are focusing on ways to optimize supply chain operations to reduce costs. Dale Locklair, vice president, procurement and construction at McLeod Health, will offer insights about advancing these efforts during a Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) webinar sponsored by GHX, which delivers software and services to improve efficiency in healthcare. The webinar is scheduled for Feb. 16 from 2-3:30 p.m. Central Time.
During the webinar, "Transforming the Supply Chain into a Strategic Asset to Improve Business and Clinical Performance," Locklair will share how McLeod Health converted its supply chain from a tactical to a strategic asset and the benefits that have been achieved as a result. He will cover topics such as:
-- Determining the corporate mission, vision and values needed to develop a
strategic and effective supply chain strategy
-- Understanding how an organization can develop a customer-facing supply
chain that will serve the competitive goals of the organization, and the
operational cost/benefit tradeoffs that must be considered
-- Creating or redesigning a supply chain that reduces costs while
supporting teams that deliver care
-- Knowing how to collect and share strategic information to drive
organizational change and enable continuous, seamless access to an
updated knowledge base, in turn reducing errors, driving down costs and
enhancing communications
To learn more and register for the webinar, go to:
http://www.hfma.org/Education-and-Events/Online-Learning/Webinars/Transforming-the-Supply-Chain-into-a-Strategic-Asset-to-Improve-Business-and-Clinical-Performance/.
About GHX
Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX) makes healthcare more efficient by delivering software and services that enable both healthcare providers and suppliers to increase efficiency, lower costs and deliver better patient care. With the largest footprint in healthcare supply chain management, GHX connects more than 80 percent of licensed hospital beds at U.S. hospitals, as well as providers in Canada and Europe, with the suppliers from which they purchase the majority of their medical-surgical supplies. GHX is transforming today's linear healthcare supply chain into the industry's only healthcare supply cloud, providing 360-degree visibility into areas affecting both clinical and financial performance. Working with GHX, organizations can improve business processes, automate supply chain systems and collaborate to solve the tough challenges facing healthcare today. GHX is owned by members of the healthcare industry, including Abbott Exchange, Inc.; AmerisourceBergen Corp.; Baxter Healthcare Corp.; B. Braun Medical Inc.; BD; Boston Scientific Corp.; Cardinal Health, Inc.; Covidien; C.R. Bard, Inc.; Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.; GE Healthcare; HCA; Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc.; McKesson Corp.; Medtronic USA, Inc.; Owens & Minor; Premier, Inc.; Siemens; University HealthSystem Consortium; and VHA Inc. For more information, visit http://www.ghx.com.
SOURCE GHX
GHX
CONTACT: Judy Stowell, +1-720-887-7631, jstowell@ghx.com
Web Site: http://www.ghx.com
GHX to Sponsor Feb. 16 HFMA Webinar on Transforming the Healthcare Supply Chain Into a Strategic Asset
Featuring Dale Locklair of McLeod Health, the event will explore how healthcare providers can improve business and clinical performance by aligning supply chain strategy to corporate vision
LOUISVILLE, Colo., Feb. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- In today's financially turbulent environment, healthcare supply chain and finance executives are focusing on ways to optimize supply chain operations to reduce costs. Dale Locklair, vice president, procurement and construction at McLeod Health, will offer insights about advancing these efforts during a Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) webinar sponsored by GHX, which delivers software and services to improve efficiency in healthcare. The webinar is scheduled for Feb. 16 from 2-3:30 p.m. Central Time.
During the webinar, "Transforming the Supply Chain into a Strategic Asset to Improve Business and Clinical Performance," Locklair will share how McLeod Health converted its supply chain from a tactical to a strategic asset and the benefits that have been achieved as a result. He will cover topics such as:
-- Determining the corporate mission, vision and values needed to develop a
strategic and effective supply chain strategy
-- Understanding how an organization can develop a customer-facing supply
chain that will serve the competitive goals of the organization, and the
operational cost/benefit tradeoffs that must be considered
-- Creating or redesigning a supply chain that reduces costs while
supporting teams that deliver care
-- Knowing how to collect and share strategic information to drive
organizational change and enable continuous, seamless access to an
updated knowledge base, in turn reducing errors, driving down costs and
enhancing communications
To learn more and register for the webinar, go to:
http://www.hfma.org/Education-and-Events/Online-Learning/Webinars/Transforming-the-Supply-Chain-into-a-Strategic-Asset-to-Improve-Business-and-Clinical-Performance/.
About GHX
Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX) makes healthcare more efficient by delivering software and services that enable both healthcare providers and suppliers to increase efficiency, lower costs and deliver better patient care. With the largest footprint in healthcare supply chain management, GHX connects more than 80 percent of licensed hospital beds at U.S. hospitals, as well as providers in Canada and Europe, with the suppliers from which they purchase the majority of their medical-surgical supplies. GHX is transforming today's linear healthcare supply chain into the industry's only healthcare supply cloud, providing 360-degree visibility into areas affecting both clinical and financial performance. Working with GHX, organizations can improve business processes, automate supply chain systems and collaborate to solve the tough challenges facing healthcare today. GHX is owned by members of the healthcare industry, including Abbott Exchange, Inc.; AmerisourceBergen Corp.; Baxter Healthcare Corp.; B. Braun Medical Inc.; BD; Boston Scientific Corp.; Cardinal Health, Inc.; Covidien; C.R. Bard, Inc.; Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.; GE Healthcare; HCA; Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc.; McKesson Corp.; Medtronic USA, Inc.; Owens & Minor; Premier, Inc.; Siemens; University HealthSystem Consortium; and VHA Inc. For more information, visit http://www.ghx.com.
SOURCE GHX
GHX
CONTACT: Judy Stowell, +1-720-887-7631, jstowell@ghx.com
Web Site: http://www.ghx.com