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Read the User Story:
Baptist Health Monitors Physician Performance & Healthcare Spending
with DI’s Diver Solution

supply chain management

Unlike inventory in a retail or industrial environment, healthcare inventories contain numerous short shelf life items such as perishable and costly pharmaceuticals. Expensive items such as knee inserts that are frequently upgraded place a premium on having constantly updated and unambiguous item files. Manufacturer-specific product codes and descriptions further complicate the task faced by hospital purchasing managers in need of a consistent data view.

The Diver Solution offers the requisite suite of powerful reporting and analytics capabilities needed to identify supply chain inefficiencies quickly. Ordering and usage patterns and historical trends can be tracked automatically with Diver, helping to drive down unnecessary variations in purchasing. Effective supply chain management begins with cleaning and standardizing inventory descriptions and part numbers across the many suppliers serving your organization. Using The Diver Solution's Data Integrator, standardization is accomplished without tedious manual intervention. A global item file is created, ensuring that all supply chain personnel are utilizing "one version of the truth". Data Integrator then automates this process ensuring that ambiguous data does not resurface.

PHYSICIAN PREFERENCE ITEMS  Manage costs for physician preference items by analyzing and disseminating pricing information to key stakeholders. Physician Preference Items (PPI's) are consuming an ever larger share of clinical supply chain spend. Hospital administrators use The Diver Solution to ensure that their item master contains valid codes for frequently upgraded PPI's, rather than being coded as miscellaneous charges. They conduct price analysis across competing PPI vendors to see which vendors are pricing their PPI's significantly above the peer-group mean by integrating third party benchmarking vendors. Present the results of your analysis to physicians and executives via Diver dashboards to engage them in negotiating prices with preferred vendors.