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Articles by Jake Crampton
The True Value of Last-Mile Logistics in Healthcare
Internal and third-party last-mile logistics providers transport critical materials across the care continuum to support patient care, diagnostics and administrative functions. Virtually every patient encounter depends, directly or indirectly, on last-mile logistics, yet healthcare organizations rarely assess the hidden clinical impact of poor logistics performance.
The Only Constant is Change: Four Reasons to Prioritize Agility in Healthcare
Healthcare stands at a pivotal crossroads. The landscape is shifting from a traditional focus on treating diseases to a more holistic approach. As Conrad S.
Drive hidden savings with these 4 time-tested strategies for supply chain logistics
Healthcare is weathering a perfect storm of financial challenges due to inflationary pressures, supply chain disruptions and global uncertainties. In this evolving landscape, strategic exploration of non-traditional sources of savings becomes a prerequisite for sustainable success. At the same time, health systems are undergoing a remarkable transformation, reaching far beyond the traditional confines to redefine healthcare.
Medical courier delays impact optimal patient care, surveys find
There is an area of your operation hiding in plain sight that is contributing to surgical cancellations, loss of irreplaceable specimens, reduced nurse satisfaction, and diminished operational effectiveness. While not typically on the radar for healthcare executives, recent surveys point to a source of angst for nursing and laboratory teams that significantly impacts patient care and drives sizable financial loss: medical couriers.
Achieving high-reliability requires a holistic perspective
The consequences of failure in healthcare can be dire. Providing health care has gravity, driving many healthcare organizations to strive to become a High-Reliability Organization, or HRO.
Let Nurses be Nurses by Earning their Trust
It should come as no surprise to providers across the country that nurses often wear a wide variety of hats beyond their role as a patient caregiver. As we begin National Nurses Week 2018, I'd like to take a moment to recognize the importance of nurses in America's hospitals and highlight how we can maximize their impact on patient care.
Cost-cutting and improved outcomes: Standardize and centralize to hit the sweet spot
The Triple Aim challenges health systems to reduce costs while also improving quality and patient experience. For many healthcare leaders, this inevitably puts variation in the crosshairs. Whether in the form of differing lengths of stay, unnecessary emergency care or irregular lab test processing times, variation can create disparities in quality, outcomes and patient experience.
Collaboration is the Key to Effective Strategic Partnerships
Healthcare leaders recognize the need to work across the care continuum to create partnerships and to consolidate operations. But choosing the right strategic partners and ensuring an actual partnership exists is tricky. The best strategic partnerships develop when organizations consider that an expert partner can be better positioned to provide a vital function in the joint pursuit of a desired outcome.
Building systemness in an expanding footprint
Looking at today's healthcare industry, one is hard-pressed to find a U.S. hospital or health system that hasn't been involved in a merger or acquisition. As more providers combine facilities or expand their reach, they're facing new challenges – and opportunities – to maximize scale and operate as one efficient business unit or system.Ultimately, post-merger goals are to attain systemness among the newly created enterprise.
Identifying new opportunities to be Lean
In a recent Healthcare Finance article, Sherree Geyer discussed how Lean Six Sigma, which began in auto manufacturing in the 1990s, is becoming more widely used in healthcare.
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