Procure-to-Pay Outlook for Health Systems for 2024
Health systems face a constant challenge: ensuring efficient and cost-effective operations while maintaining the highest quality of care for patients. At the heart of this challenge lies the procure-to-pay (P2P) process, a critical component of supply chain management and cash flow. Procure-to-pay transformed to adapt post-pandemic, driven by technology and the healthcare supply chain’s growing […]
The Power and Pitfalls of OCR Tools in Healthcare Procure to Pay
In the fast-paced world of healthcare auditing, automation has emerged as an invaluable asset. Keeping up with the advancements in AI technology is crucial, along with understanding its limitations. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a key success factor in procure to pay (P2P) automation. OCR tools have revolutionized how documents are processed, enabling greater efficiency […]
Understanding Healthcare’s Procure to Pay Process
Procure-to-pay (P2P) processes comprise various smaller processes that all lead to acquiring and purchasing goods for a health system at the most advantageous price. Purchasing and paying for items seems simple, but in large health systems and hospitals spanning various departments and locations, the process easily breaks down. It only takes one error or process […]
How to Increase your Health System’s Spend Visibility (Spend Visibility Part 3)
To truly reap the benefits of spend data, health systems must take action to clean and structure all procure to pay (P2P) data. Follow the steps outlined below to gain true visibility at your hospital. [blockquote author=”” link=”” target=”_blank”] Read Parts One and Two of our spend visibility series now to discover the benefits […]
Is your Health System Achieving Clear Spend Visibility? (Spend Visibility Part 2)
Insight into spend visibility is essential for decision-making within finance and supply chain in health systems. Clear spend visibility provides information for leaders to make supply decisions, evaluate their procure to pay processes and gain insight into usage and product waste. The benefits of spend visibility are endless, but health systems and hospitals struggling to […]
Why Health System P2P Leaders Need Spend Visibility (Spend Visibility Part 1)
How much can finance and supply chain leaders gain from spend visibility benefits? The answer is almost endless, but it comes down to better decision-making. When data, especially dark data, takes on the form of graphs and diagrams, leaders obtain insights rather than simply numbers filled in columns and rows. Suddenly it turns into potential […]
Navigating the Complexities of Your Health System’s Pharmaceutical Procurement
The Challenges of Pharmaceutical Procurement Managing the pharmaceutical procurement process for a large health system is a complex and grueling process. Why? Because it is commonplace for these organizations to purchase from multiple manufacturers and distributors – resulting in excess of 100 accounts. With so many pharmaceutical accounts to manage, it becomes difficult to know […]