SOURCING & LOGISTICS
SOURCING & LOGISTICS
The University of Kansas Health System CSO team 19444692 © Elnur |
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Midwestern IDN supply chain team creates, regenerates
value for clinicians, patients Success rooted in resource life cycle via communication, facilitation, sourcing, usage
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or many healthcare organizations and professionals, value analysis merely represents a form or func-
tion, a procedure or process. But that’s not enough for one Midwest integrated delivery network treating patients in the
heartland.For The University of Kansas Health System, value analysis represents a key component of a much-larger over-arch- ing philosophy and way of thinking that they purposefully root within well-defi ned clinical integration to drive cost-effec- tive operations.
Thirteen professionals comprise the “Clinical Supply Optimization” (CSO) team at the Kansas City, KS-based IDN that services the entire organization. The team spans seven in CSO’s Value Analysis group—four Value Analysis Analysts, two Implementation Analysts and one System Manager of Value Analysis; and four in
the Utilization Management group—two Utilization Management Analysts, one Procedural Supply Optimization Analyst and one System Manager of Utilization Management. The two groups report to the System Director of Clinical Supply Optimization and the System Senior Director of Supply Chain Management and Administration and up to the Vice President of Supply Chain. University of Kansas’ CSO team may be
small, but they’re effective and effi cient in the value they bring to the organization in bridging—if not fi lling—any gaps between administrative, clinical and financial operations, which earned them the 2023 Value Analysis Performance Excellence in Supply Chain Award by Healthcare Purchasing News.
What follows is an edited version of their nomination profi le that traces the
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development of the CSO team just prior to and during the pandemic to now.
Teamwork’s inherent value If you give a Value Analysis team the right people, processes, and systems they might just create extraordinary value for their organization. If you give a Value Analysis team hundreds of clinical end users to work alongside, they just might create something extraordinary for patient care. What if you gave a Value Analysis team both? That is what happened when The University of Kansas Health System ventured down a new pathway to trans- form their Value Analysis team in 2020. The journey started with asking three main questions: 1. How can the health system achieve a successful clinically integrated supply chain?
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