Case Studies/Thought Leadership
ROi is often requested to participate in industry events and interviews. Below are highlights of ROi case studies, speaking engagements and interviews.
March 2012Healthcare Finance News
ROi’s Curtis Dudley is featured in this article discussing the collaboration of ROi with Becton, Dickinson and Company, to implement the first known instance in the US of integrating GS1 Standards, including bar codes, into the medical device supply chain.READ MORE
January 2012
Perfect Order and Beyond
ROi's Alex Zimmerman and BD's Dennis Black co-authored a case study, Perfect Order and Beyond, that spotlights our work to integrate GS1 Standards while achieving Perfect Order. The project between ROi and BD is the first known instance in the U.S. that GS1 Standards were used in every step -- from manufacturing plant to patient bedside -- illustrating ways supply chain can impact patient safety and optimize health care operations with fully automated order processes and transactions.READ MORE
January 2012
Healthcare Purchasing News
Conquering the chaos when disaster strikesROi’s JoAnne Levy, Greg Meier and Scott Nelson, along with Marilyn Endicott, from Mercy, are featured in this news article about supply chain response efforts following the May 22, 2011 tornado in Joplin, Missouri.
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January 2012
The Value of Standards for Data and Processes
| Curtis Dudley, Vice President of Integrated Business Solutions at ROi, talks with GHX about the role data standards play in improving patient safety and inventory management while helping to contain costs. |
Improving Inventory Management for Better Tracking and Cost Containment
| Curtis Dudley, Vice President of Integrated Business Solutions at ROi, talks with GHX about ROi's unique supply chain model and improving inventory management for better tracking and cost containment. |
The Joplin Story: Collaboration & Integration
| Gene Kirtser, President/CEO, ROi, JoAnne Levy, Vice President of Integrated Sourcing Solutions, ROi, and Dottie Bringle, Chief Operating Officer/Chief Nursing Officer, Mercy St. John's Regional Medical Center presented at the Strategic Marketplace Initiative (SMI) Fall Forum, sharing lessons learned from the response efforts to the May 22 EF-5 tornado that devastated Joplin, Missouri.
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October 2011
Strategies for Supply Chain Collaboration
ROi President/CEO Gene Kirtser discusses how providers and suppliers must work together to reduce costs. The white paper shares how ROi and its suppliers are reducing supply chain costs and inefficiencies by collaborating on a number of key initiatives, including perfect order, vendor-managed inventory and global data standards.READ MORE
October 2011
Expanding Global Reach of the GDSN in Health Care
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Alex Zimmerman, Director of Information Solutions, ROi, served on a panel at the GS1 Global Healthcare Conference in Amsterdam addressing communications practices among trading partners as they work with GS1's GDSN.
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September 2011
Lessons Learned from Joplin Presentation, Fall IDN Summit
ROi and Mercy share the story of response and recovery following the May 22 tornado that destroyed Mercy's St. John's Regional Medical Center.READ MORE
July 2011
The Wall Street Journal
ROi President/CEO Gene Kirtser comments on low cost orthopedic device firms.READ MORE
June 2011
A Model of Supply Chain Success: Mercy/ROi, Healthcare Cost Containment, June 2011, Healthcare Financial Management Association
As a recognized supply chain leader, ROi uses innovative and practical strategies that health systems of all sizes can employ to improve their own supply chains.READ MORE
April 2011
GHX 2011 Healthcare Supply Chain Summit
| Vance Moore, Senior Vice President of Operations, Mercy, and former President/CEO of ROi, was part of a three-person panel with executives from Owens & Minor and Johnson & Johnson that shared insights from the top three global supply chains in health care ranked by Gartner (formerly AMR Research). |
December 2010
From Healthcare Purchasing News: Standards momentum has staying power, GS1 Healthcare US chief says
GS1 Healthcare US President Dennis Harrison recognizes that history is not on his side when it comes to herding health care industry providers and suppliers toward adopting and implementing a universal standard for supply chain data.READ MORE
June 2010
An Interview with Gene Kirtser, President/CEO of ROi, for the IDN Summit & Expo
READ MOREOctober 2009
Changing the "Game" of Custom Procedure Trays
Earlier this year, Mercy began producing its own custom procedure trays (CPTs) through the organization's supply chain division and has already reduced its overall CPT costs by 20 percent.READ MORE
December 2006
Mercy/ROi Takes Optimized Supply Chain All the Way To Patients' Bedsides, by Russell Goodman, Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies, SupplyChainBrain
Mercy/ROi's bold supply chain initiatives are changing traditional distribution models in the health care industry. Even more importantly, they mitigate the nation's 8th largest cause of death.READ MORE