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April 9, 2012

Oklahoma Heart Hospital Signs Integrated Supply Chain Agreement with ROi

Integrated Supply Chain Model is End Goal

Oklahoma Heart Hospital, the nation's first all-digital hospital totally dedicated to hearts, signed an agreement with ROi (Resource Optimization & Innovation) for supply chain services to drive efficiencies across its operations. The agreement provides Oklahoma Heart Hospital access to ROi's full suite of services, including group purchasing, utilization management, custom procedure packs, distribution and transportation services.
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January 19, 2012

Mercy/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 Industry

Mercy/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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December 12, 2011

National Healthcare Providers Share Product Usage Data

Group launches new website to serve as online platform to advance standards adoption

The 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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December 5, 2011

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 established

Mercy, 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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November 11, 2011

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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October 24, 2011

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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