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 chain operations quietly drain resources. Lasting savings come from tackling the root causes of supply chain waste. Below are five
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 savings from vendors. To help manage costs, most U.S. hospitals participate in group purchasing organizations (GPOs). But the traditional GPO
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
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
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
Cincinnati, Ohio and Asheville, North Carolina – April 22, 2025 – Capstone Health Alliance, one of the largest regional group purchasing organizations (GPOs) in the country, announces a new strategic partnership with Advantus Health Partners, a leader in healthcare supply chain solutions. This collaboration is designed to enhance the value
Movemedical collaboration enables point-of-use technology to optimize procedural inventory levels and eliminate product expirations CINCINNATI, Ohio (March 25, 2025) — Advantus Health Partners (AHP) and Movemedical (MM) have formed a strategic collaboration to reset the standard for medical device inventory management in hospitals, surgery centers and distribution centers. This multi-year agreement involves system-wide deployment
A one-stop-shop to streamline equipment purchasing for members CINCINNATI, Ohio – (Jan. 10, 2025) – Advantus Health Partners and OpenMarkets Health are teaming up to create a new digital interface called Advantus Supplier Connection (ASC). ASC is an online platform that connects Advantus members to contracted suppliers to simplify the
Advantus collaborates with Emerge to support onshore manufacturing of PPE CINCINNATI, Ohio (Sept. 3, 2024) — Advantus Health Partners, a health care solutions and end-to-end supply chain management company, announced its participation in Emerge Manufacturing’s ribbon cutting and grand opening of a new onshore manufacturing plant of “made in the
