Value-based supply chain management: 5 questions with Cardinal Health's Carola Endicott and Ken Shastany
Cardinal Health | December 22, 2016
Healthcare leaders are expanding their strategic focus to include the supply chain as a key component to achieve optimized cost savings amid a changing healthcare landscape. The supply chain can serve as a critical strategic asset to a hospital or integrated delivery network when addressing the important initiatives tied to managing costs and quality of care. Hospitals should step back from pre-existing inefficient processes and workarounds and instead focus attention on leveraging automation and technology to drive efficiencies, lower costs and improve care quality.