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January 19, 2012Mercy/ROi and BD Collaborate to Improve Quality of Care and Reduce Costs
New Case Study Finds Positive Impact of GS1 Standards and Perfect Order in Healthcare IndustryMercy/ROi and BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) collaborated to achieve the first known instance in the United States where GS1 Standards, including bar codes, were integrated across the medical device supply chain. GS1 Standards are global standards and solutions to improve the efficiency and visibility of supply and demand chains across multiple sectors.
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National Healthcare Providers Share Product Usage Data
Group launches new website to serve as online platform to advance standards adoptionThe Healthcare Transformation Group (HTG), a collaborative of Geisinger Health System, Intermountain Healthcare, Kaiser Permanente, Mayo Clinic and Mercy, has performed product data analysis to determine specific product lines (based on volume) the group has in common.
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Mercy Ranked No. 2 Top Health Care Supply Chain in World
Together, Mercy and ROi become the only organization recognized in the Top Three each year since the ranking was establishedMercy, the eighth largest Catholic health care system in the U.S., along with the supply chain company it founded nearly a decade ago, Resource Optimization & Innovation (ROi), has been recognized as the No. 2 global supply chain in health care in the Gartner Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25.
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ROi is Named an "Elite 18" Supply Chain to Watch
Healthcare Purchasing News has recognized ROi as one of the "Elite 18" Supply Chains to watch. The publication stated:"If you're looking for a poster child on how to work with your GPO to learn how to function as your own GPO and then venture out on your own without tacitly tarnishing that or any GPO while promoting the benefits of group purchasing, self-contracting and self-distribution as mutually exclusive functions, then look no further than Mercy's Resource Optimization and Innovation (ROi) group."
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ROi Earns PayStream Advisors' "Healthcare Procure to Pay Management Excellence" Award
ROi (Resource Optimization & Innovation), ranked by Gartner (formerly AMR Research) as one of the top three global supply chain organizations in health care, has been selected by PayStream Advisors as the 2011 recipient of the "Healthcare Procure to Pay Management Excellence" award. The award is given each year to a health care organization that demonstrates excellence in purchase to pay automation.
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ROi Presents at IDN Summit; More than $40,000 Raised for Mercy in Joplin
How does a place of healing that has become a place of tragedy become a place of healing once more? Attendees of the recent 2011 Fall IDN Summit in Phoenix hope that over $40,000 in donations can help.
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Supply Chain Co-Workers Receive Special Gift
Three months from the date when the May 22 tornado struck Joplin, Missouri, seven supply chain co-workers, received a generous gift from the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System (FMOLHS) during a special presentation in Joplin.
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