World Congress Leadership Summit on Health Care Supply Chain Management Welcomes medical transportation firm MedSpeed to program

Firm adds value to supply chain management process through ISO Certified procedures and innovative technologies

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - November 30, 2009

Contact: Patrick Golden
Director of Communications
781-939-2511
[email protected]

Woburn, Mass, November 30, 2009 - The 4th Annual Leadership Summit on Health Care Supply Chain Management, presented by World Congress, is pleased to announce the participation of progressive medical transportation firm: MedSpeed. The Illinois-based company helps IDNs centralize and consolidate the movement of patient and business-critical materials including specimens, pharmaceuticals, mail, radiology, supplies, and more.

The 4th Annual Leadership Summit, set to occur January 25-27 in Dallas, Texas, provides the necessary tools to increase the value and efficiency of supply chain. From thought-provoking case studies and in-depth presentations, to industry-specific breakout sessions and hands-on workshops, health care executives will address a myriad of supply chain management topics as they relate to improving efficiencies, controlling costs and facilitating change in the health care industry. For more information, visit www.worldcongress.com/supplychain

ISO Certified and guided by the principles of lean six sigma, MedSpeed provides outsourced transportation services exclusively to the healthcare industry. The company applies quality processes and proprietary scan-track technology to drive down costs and deliver best-in-class client service. For more information, visit www.medspeed.com.

"We are extremely pleased to have MedSpeed join us for the Health Care Supply Chain Leadership Summit," said Ann McGrath, director of World Congress Leadership Summits. "The company provides a critical component of the supply chain process that can help hospitals and other medical service providers focus on patient care with the assurance the transportation and tracking of vital medical information and materials is being performed properly."

About the 4th Annual Leadership Summit on Health Care Supply Chain Management

Topics featured include:

  • Assessing Health Care Supply Chain Maturity: Creating a Baseline for Cost Savings, Value Creation and a Defined Structure for Growth
  • Budgeting and Capital Management in a New Economic Reality: Best Practices in Financial and Supply Chain Integration Amidst a Time of Economic Constraint
  • The Integration of Health Care Information Technology and The Supply Chain: How HIT Reform is Creating Opportunities for Supply Chain Innovation
  • Not Strategic and Not a Vice: Examining the Mystery of the Missing Value in the Health Care Supply Chain
  • Utilizing Comparative Effectiveness and Evidence Based Medicine as a Key Framework for Supply Chain Innovation
  • Strategic Sourcing and Category Management: Why the Smart Way is the Right Way
  • Getting Outside of the Acute Care Setting: Assessing the Impact of Retail Health and Home Care on Supply Chain Management
  • The Impact of Effective Supply Chain Management and Clinical Integration for Optimal Patient Safety
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Open QuotationWe are so pleased to have MedSpeed as a member of the Health Sector Supply Chain Research Consortium. MedSpeed consistently brings innovative thinking to our deliberations and helps us choose to investigate issues that will improve the performance of the supply chain for improved patient care.Close Quotation

Eugene Schneller, Ph.D., Co- Director Health Sector Supply Chain Research Consortium