When costs rise and margins tighten, health system leaders often face a difficult challenge: cut spending without compromising patient care. By reimagining the health care supply chain as a strategic asset rather than a cost center, hospitals can realize significant, rapid health care cost savings without sacrificing clinical outcomes. Make data-driven value analysis your
It can be easy to blame the health care supply chain for rising costs. Yet when we peel back the layers, the waste often hides in plain sight. Inefficient supply
Health care supply chain leaders face a paradox: they operate in an industry where clinical excellence and patient safety are non‑negotiable, yet every year they are expected to extract more
Perhaps you’re already among the health care leaders who know it’s time for supply chain to move from transactional to strategic. In a world of mounting uncertainty, health care supply chain leaders can no longer afford to take a reactive stance. From pandemics to tariffs, climate-related disasters to cyberattacks, the past
Choosing the right healthcare GPO (Group Purchasing Organization) can shape the future of your health system’s supply chain performance including financial outcomes, operational resilience, and clinical outcomes. During the GPO RFP process, asking the right questions ensures alignment, transparency, and long-term value. Below is an article outline with 10 key questions
Every health care organization needs technology to deliver patient care — from diagnostic imaging and monitoring devices to life support and surgical robotics. But some health care providers are making costly mistakes that cause their technology to be more expensive than their competitors’. Smart healthcare technology management (HTM) challenges these myths
In the ever-changing health care industry landscape, the strategic partnership between Advantus Health Partners and Delta Health System has emerged as a beacon of innovation and cost efficiency. Delta Health System, needing to reduce supply chain costs, was searching for an alternate option to augment their Group Purchasing Organization (GPO).
There’s too much variability in U.S. health care, which leads to waste and worse patient outcomes. As a surgeon, Dr. Jimmy Chung saw this problem firsthand. Dr. Chung’s journey into health care supply chain management was not a traditional path for a physician. After more than a decade in
Combined GPOs expand purchasing power to support sustained cost reductions Cincinnati, Ohio and Louisville, KY (Feb. 6, 2024) — Advantus Health Partners, an end-to-end health care supply chain solutions company and Alliant Purchasing LLC have formed a strategic partnership that will expand the purchasing power for members. “Our vendor partnerships
Health systems face numerous challenges as they migrate from a volume-based, fee-for-service model to a value-based care environment. Aligning supply chain early on is a key to successfully transitioning to this newer reimbursement model. Advantus provides members with health care supply chain expertise and products to smoothly navigate the transition:
Physician preference items (PPI) are a hot topic in ORs. But rather than catering to individual physicians’ preferences, Dr. Jimmy Chung, chief medical officer for Advantus Health Partners, proposes a different approach: Reduce variability in PPI to improve patient outcomes using data. The PPI contracts at Advantus aren’t selected by
The health care industry is increasingly focused on transforming operations to deliver better patient outcomes while managing rising costs. One area with great potential for improvement is supply chain. In the latest episode of Outcomes Rocket, Dr. Jimmy Chung, chief medical officer at Advantus Health Partners, dives into how strategic
The quality of your healthcare technology management (HTM) program is the difference between providing reliable care with well-maintained equipment and shuffling the schedule when something breaks. The right HTM program gets you out of the endless break-fix cycle and into a unified plan to proactively manage all equipment performance and
National Nurses Week begins each year on May 6th and ends on May 12th, Florence Nightingale’s birthday. With more than 3 million licensed nurses in the US today, nurses make up the highest percentage of the US healthcare workforce. As we all know, Nurses are integral to hospitals and health systems, but they are also crucial to the work we do at Advantus too. We share the same goal of providing the best care to patients and we would not be able to achieve this without the hard work of our nurses!
Effective supply chain management is no longer a back-office function—it’s a strategic imperative that directly impacts patient care, clinician satisfaction and financial outcomes. This shift in approach requires a shift in your team, too. These two specialized roles are revolutionizing health care supply chains: surgical navigators and clinical resource program
