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Skumatics Joins GS1 US
Lawrenceville, NJ - July 12, 2010. GS1 Healthcare US welcomed the following new members to its organization: WL Gore and Associates, Buchanan County Health Center, and Skumatics LLC. Skumatics is the solution provider that will bridge the GDSN data pools and the provider community. Initially, Skumatics will be working with 1SYNC™ and Lawson Software™ to deliver standardized data to the vendor and item master. Providers are invited to pilot other data pools and material management information systems.
Healthcare Sunrise Dates
To improve patient safety and supply chain efficiency, organizations and companies throughout the U.S. healthcare supply chain have announced their support to adopt GS1 Standards by the industry-accepted sunrise dates of 2010 for the GS1 Global Location Number (GLN) to standardize location identification and 2012 for the GS1 Global Trade Item Number® (GTIN®) to standardize product identification. Healthcare providers and suppliers should begin preparing for implementation of "2010 GLN Sunrise" and "2012 GTIN Sunrise" now.
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Software Solutions
Decision Support for Strategic Procurement
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Our powerful dashboard and reporting tool provides your organization with visibility and standardized information to understand what you spend, on what, with whom, by whom and for what purpose. It lets you create metrics based on hospital purchasing activity that show top spend by category and highlight areas to drill into for more detailed information. Or create your own classification to support improvement efforts, for example:
| 1. Finance identifies the top 10 areas of spend and top 10 areas of cost increases for further analysis |
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| 2. Cross-functional teams (clinical and materials management) drill down to determine if there are opportunities for cost reduction |
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| 3. Team evaluates how much of a particular product type is being purchased from which vendors |
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| 4. Clinicians make the final determination re: functional or clinical equivalence, based on description attributes and working knowledge of the products. |
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| 5. If appropriate, providers can consolidate purchasing of products to drive better tier level compliance and contract prices. |
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Our Run Book
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We integrate the following products with your material management information systems:
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Skumatics™ Analyz for Pricing Normalization provides rapid access to all different prices being paid within the entire system for identical SKUs regardless of the source of the product. Savings opportunities include inventory reduction and the efficiency in labor through content analytics and the PO Dashboard.
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Skumatics™ Synchronyz for Data Standardization automatically categorizes all products from supplier-defined GTIN to GS1's UNSPSC that promote consolidation of utilization within a category.
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Skumatics™ Optimyz for Contract Maximization provides integration with your local and GPO contracts. Correct tier levels are identified for each system along with savings by individual manufacturer.
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