UPMC, MedSpeed To Talk About Value and Savings in Purchased Services
Partners to Speak at the World Congress Supply Chain Summit
in January 2012
Elmhurst, IL, January 24, 2012 - UPMC, a $9
billion integrated global health enterprise, faced a challenge
similar to that of many large health systems. Areas of their supply
chain operations were uncoordinated and more expensive than they
needed to be. To consolidate non-healthcare core competencies of
facilities, mail and transportation, UPMC entered into an
enterprise-wide collaborative partnership with Océ Business
services, a Canon Group company and leading international provider
of document process outsourcing services and technology to
healthcare enterprises, and MedSpeed, an HFMA
peer-reviewed partner that strengthens supply chain and overall
business operations through centralized transportation
networks.
This month at the World Congress 6th Annual
Leadership Summit on Health Care Supply Chain Management in
Orlando, FL, MedSpeed's CEO, Jake Crampton, and UPMC's
assistant director, non-clinical strategic sourcing, Mike
Figliolia, will discuss their creative seven-year partnership and
how it has produced added value and savings within purchased
services. Crampton and Figliolia will present at the summit on
January 31, 2012 at 2:00 PM.
As healthcare reform gains momentum, supply chain leaders are
increasingly asked to assume responsibility for purchasing
decisions that enable a higher quality of care and generate
efficiency. During this interactive presentation, UPMC will
discuss how it leverages strategic collaborative partnerships to
achieve high quality, non-core operations that support its standard
of care and generate cost savings.
The Leadership Summit on Healthcare Supply Chain Management
(January 30 - February 1, 2012) will feature thought-provoking
panels and case studies. Industry leaders will discuss
transforming their supply chain departments into centralized
systems with a strategic, collaborative and innovative focus to
accomplish the overall business and clinical goals of the
organization.
About World Congress Leadership
Summits
The World Congress Leadership Summit Series addresses the most
cutting-edge issues for health care executives across a wide range
of industry sectors. Designed to expand on topics discussed at
invitation-only summits during the World Health Care Congress, this
series offers new perspectives on established methodologies and
details solutions to foster innovation and change. For more
information, please visit www.worldcongress.com/leadership.
About Océ Business Services
Océ Business Services provides high quality managed services and
technology to manage, monitor and optimize document intensive
processes so companies can improve operating efficiency and
performance. Océ Business Services solutions span the document
lifecycle and include records management, imaging, managed print
services, mail and eDiscovery. Proprietary methodologies apply Six
Sigma®. North American headquarters are in New York City and
employment is about 5,000. Learn more at www.ocesolutions.com or
follow us on
Twitter.
About MedSpeed
Every patient interaction, from a routine clinic visit to an
urgent blood transfusion, relies in some way on the same-day pickup
and delivery of a specimen, pharmaceutical, radiology film, blood
product, medical record or supply. MedSpeed is an ISO-certified,
technology-enhanced healthcare transportation
solutions provider that strengthens supply chain and overall
business operations through centralized transportation networks.
MedSpeed has also been granted the "Peer Reviewed by HFMA®"
designation, a rigorous eleven-step objective third party
evaluation of products and services conducted by the Healthcare
Financial Management Association (HFMA). For more than eleven
years, MedSpeed's Lean Six Sigma approach to transportation design
and execution has transformed transportation into
globally-optimized, leverageable logistical frameworks that
consistently deliver operational quality, economic value and strategic advantage.