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A New Healthcare Courier Solution: Optimizing the Movement of Material to Maximize Efficiency and Savings

Overview: Today’s healthcare environment is more dynamic than ever. Organizations are facing greater demand to do more with less and get the highest value out of every health system initiative. The goal is to drive savings without sacrificing service, quality, or safety. Historically, healthcare leaders have focused their attention on finding value within clinical categories. As these savings become harder to find, systems are turning their interest to other areas, such as purchased services, to find ways to drive meaningful savings.

When appropriately constructed, healthcare transportation — the movement of patient and business critical materials such as patient specimens, blood, pharmaceuticals, and supplies — can be a strategic asset that not only drives cost savings but also improves the patient experience and delivery of patient care. However, few systems today are getting optimum performance from this function. This webinar will provide supply chain leaders with the information needed to better understand healthcare transportation and its potential for impact within their organization.

Speaker: Kathy Benn, Vice President of Solutions Development, MedSpeed

Cost: $99 per recording link – AHRMM Members; $139 per recording link – AHRMM Non-members

This webinar was recorded on January 11, 2012.

Biography:
Kathy Benn is the vice president of solutions development for MedSpeed, an ISO-certified, technology-enhanced healthcare transportation solutions provider that helps organizations reduce risk and achieve maximum business value. Over her 30-year career in supply chain and healthcare logistics, Benn has partnered with some of the largest health providers in the country to drive savings and improve operating efficiency and quality. Her expertise includes: transportation solution design, operating room inventory management and value analysis, stockless/just-in-time inventory solutions, medical surgical and pharmaceutical distribution logistics, supplier diversity program management, and blood utilization and inventory management design. Benn has held executive leadership roles with American Hospital Supply, Baxter Healthcare, Allegiance Healthcare, Cardinal Health, and Haemonetics. She has spoken at numerous healthcare and blood bank events, including regional AHRMM conferences and webinars. Benn earned a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University and a master’s degree from the Kellogg Graduate School of Northwestern University.