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Maximizing opportunities
• More accurate than ear thermometer
Most healthcare facilities lack the resources to properly quantify their
• Interchangeable with PA catheter current total freight spend – if it’s measured at all. When it comes to
• Interchangeable with esophageal probe
managing transportation and logistics, “getting your arms around
the data is sometimes the most difficult thing,” indicated NFI’s Roeder.
“Oftentimes, healthcare facilities focus only on supply costs, with-
out truly understanding the cost to receive and ship supplies,” said
Schwieger, OptiFreight.
“Many healthcare facilities have difficulty telling you how much
A silver bullet against
freight they spend in total,” said Bayer, HLS MedFreight. “It’s even
microbes, including
more difficult for them to tell you what they spend on inbound vs.
MRSA and VRE
outbound. Getting to a level of detail beyond that is where we excel.”
“If a healthcare facility wants to maximize its savings from a freight
management standpoint, it really gets beyond discounts,” Schwieger
advised. “You need to create a freight management discipline. This
can be accomplished by creating capabilities in managing vendors,
impacting behavior and analyzing data.”
Many group purchasing organizations (GPOs), such as Amerinet,
Novation and MedAssets, offer resources to help facilities manage
freight costs. This could include contracts with freight management
Accurate, Gentle, Cost-Effective
outsourcing companies and shipping companies, as well as access
to consultants who can help facilities make the initial decision of
• Reduce thermometry costs by 90%
whether to build their own freight management system or outsource.
“The way to achieve optimum savings is not simply by taking ad-
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channels yields the most significant long term savings, he noted.
Explained Tauber, “To achieve the higher level of savings you re-
ally have to make process changes or improvements. You look at
how to lower the cost while maintaining or improving service levels.
STOP
“Aside from the rates savings, a key component is the audit and
visibility piece,” he continued. “There are a lot of errors that can oc-
the spread of HAIs
cur in the shipping process. It’s our job to catch them and mitigate
them. Between rate savings and monitoring you can get that first
level of savings. Then the next level of savings is taking the data and
Reduce the threat of cross-
the information that you’ve garnered from managing this process
contamination, which often
and making informed decisions to change and improve the process.”
leads to an increase in
TRIOSE draws on its consultative background in the area of logis-
Hospital Acquired
tics to provide robust business reviews to report back customer re-
Infections, with AliMed’s
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unique line of antimicrobial
savings, and what are the priorities?” explained Tauber.
OptiFreight Logistics, supported by its parent company Cardinal
products. Our antimicrobial
Health, offers a full-service freight management program with solu-
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tions tailored to meet the individual needs of healthcare facilities.
VRE, and other harmful
“We proactively implement and manage the program and continu-
pathogens before they
ously consult with customers on savings opportunities through our
spread to other patients.
account managers,” described Schwieger.
“To measure the success of managing freight, OptiFreight Logis-
tics focuses on lowering a customer’s cost per package,” said
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age that is either received or shipped within a healthcare facility. Those
PRODUCTS
facilities that have the lowest cost per pack are doing most every-
thing that is best in practice from a freight management perspective.”
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Among those best practices, he offered, “Customers are always ac-
tively engaged in the program. They have a strong program sponsor
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are proactive in terms of implementing recommendations, activating
new vendors and optimizing their freight delivery service through
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mode and channel optimization.”
Bayer described how HLS MedFreight’s Information Advantage
program helps facilities achieve higher returns. “Rate savings are im-
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