{"title":"Supplier certification for health care.","authors":"L DiSalvo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Supplier certification is an ongoing, formalized improvement process between a customer and a supplier. Ideally, suppliers and healthcare organizations will become extensions of one another, allowing for achievement of significant quality improvement over the long haul. There are six steps to implementing the process: 1) learning the process, 2) building a team, 3) defining objectives, 4) identifying evaluative criteria, 5) developing a measurement system and 6) selecting suppliers. For different levels of certification--defined by specific criteria--the customer receives more benefits and the supplier receives larger incentives.</p>","PeriodicalId":79670,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare materiel management","volume":"12 3","pages":"24, 26-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21006913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Partnering. A cooperative approach to dietary procurement.","authors":"R Burton, C L Huenefeld, N A Link","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Toledo Hospital has initiated many innovative quality programs. One initiated with the dietary department involved turning its wholesaler into a partner to provide better-quality products, lower costs and better service. Specific requirements were established in each of these areas including guaranteed mark-ups, price caps and performance reports. The hospital and the wholesaler also do joint negotiating with product manufacturers. Through these and other strategies, the hospital has reduced purchase prices for food items by over 4%, drastically reduced administrative costs of procurement and lead time, increased inventory turns to over 80 and given the dietary department a single resource for \"one stop shopping.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":79670,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare materiel management","volume":"12 2","pages":"39-40, 42, 44 passim"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21002453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Information systems support for OR product standardization.","authors":"C Faetanini","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A critical reason why many healthcare institutions cannot effectively standardize OR products is that they cannot access necessary information. An OR information system that manages, tracks and generates documentation on OR inventory is an important answer to implementing change. At least four key areas any information system should address in order to make standardization a reality are 1) clinical preference, 2) supplying a changing case mix, 3) product usage data and 4) vendor performance. OR information systems operate on various hardware platforms. Users have more software choices than ever before, because connectivity issues have been effectively solved through the development of standard electronic transaction sets.</p>","PeriodicalId":79670,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare materiel management","volume":"12 2","pages":"24, 26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21002451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The state of the art in OR product standardization.","authors":"M Ferdinand","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Product standardization has been a problem in the OR. Product evaluation and standardization exists on a house-wide and OR-specific level at most institutions. Surgeons play some role in the process, though how much depends on the institution. Clinical trials must be conducted to avoid having surgeons or nurses revert to their old products during the trial. Physician preference still plays a major role in preventing standardization from taking place. But strategies that reduce--not eliminate--product choices, combined with purchase contract compliance and cost/usage data can help standardization efforts succeed.</p>","PeriodicalId":79670,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare materiel management","volume":"12 2","pages":"19-20, 22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21002450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Operating room cost awareness committee. A model for collaboration.","authors":"K Stodd, A Hill, R Ramirez","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Kaiser Santa Rosa (KSRO), a small facility in the Kaiser Permanente health maintenance organization, was found to have an unfavorably high non-payroll cost per surgical hour as compared with other Kaiser facilities. An Operating Room Cost Awareness Committee was formed to address the problem and has now become a standing committee at KSRO. The committee is composed of surgeons, nurses, materiel management personnel and administrative representatives. Through a spirit of cooperation and the authority to approve and deny all OR supply requests, the committee has been able to bring its OR costs in line with other Kaiser facilities.</p>","PeriodicalId":79670,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare materiel management","volume":"12 2","pages":"28, 30, 32 passim"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21002452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Q & A ... number of patches allowable on reusable linen wrappers and the number of times a reusable cloth wrapper can be reused.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79670,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare materiel management","volume":"12 1","pages":"12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21002387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How changes in healthcare delivery will impact materiel management.","authors":"M Wilson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Materiel management personnel undoubtedly believe that in the past they have done all within their power to cut costs, increase efficiency and comply with their facility's productivity requirements. However, with healthcare reform and associated changes, it will be necessary for them to develop additional creative ideas--and implement innovative information system solutions--to improve the materiel management operations. EDI and decentralized inventory management at remote locations will become prominent as health care continues to move out of the hospital. Closer working relationships with physicians and other providers in coordinated networks to match cost-effective products to improved clinical outcomes will occur. And with additional regulation, materiel managers can, ironically, expect increased demand for documentation.</p>","PeriodicalId":79670,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare materiel management","volume":"12 1","pages":"14, 16, 19-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21002388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}