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在上周的医疗信息管理系统社会会议（HIMS），技术和医学专业人员主要专注于推进和供应链的三个领域：最新的远程医疗，相关的消费者驱动的支付平台和连接医疗设备的网络安全。

Healthcare Group采购行业倡议（HGPII）2019年周四公布的年度公共责任报告发现，医疗保健的小组采购组织（GPO）继续推进促进增长，透明度和创新的商业惯例。年度报告还探讨了该部门的道德规范。

The hospital market in the U.S. is undergoing a significant transformation at all levels. Rapidly consolidating markets, declining revenues and a fundamentally new reimbursement paradigm that links provider payments to improved performance are the current headliners. The latter is a value-based form of reimbursement that holds healthcare providers accountable for both the cost and quality of the care they provide. It’s a data-driven payment system that will reward the best-performing providers and penalize those that don’t measure up. Almost by definition, it’s a system where data accuracy and transparency have become the essential currency for improved decision making.

Traditional silos are giving way to cross functional collaborations, as the clinically integrated supply chain compels it.

在我们的三部分系列关于Prodigo解决方案的最后一部分中，我们不仅解决了公司如何帮助解决医疗保健的数据标准挑战，而且还如何成功定位自己直接支持业界的驱动器，以临床上整合其供应链。

我的2019年愿望是针对医疗保健的供应链领导。不仅仅是令人鼓舞的投资，旨在使供应链更加活跃，我希望看到终于取消的手套，主要供应商的欺凌行为呼出它是什么。为了使这种情况发生，医疗保健的供应链领导必须更具战略性地思考他们最重要的服务线的供应合理化战略。如果没有理由在重要的关系中建立平衡，则努力至关重要。最后，必须被驳回工作人员来挑战既定顺序，因此必须制定，促进和监测其奖励其进行奖励的计划。

More often than not, procurement projects that finally make the docket address problems that staff have been complaining about for a long time. Therefore, having a detailed understanding of the problem is essential. To get there, cross-functional input must be solicited from staff representatives of all affected organizational layers throughout the system design and implementation phases.

成功变革管理努力的一件事是共同的一件事是它们通常由前线工人和后线高管的组合驱动。当发生这种情况时，如果实际上保证了成功。当它没有，好的时候，赔率并不伟大，但有时我们得到幸运（根据统计数据，约46％的时间）。

在Part 1of our series onProdigo Solutions, we talked about the company’s dedication to the needs of hospital procurement organizations and how it has allowed Prodigo to achieve dominant status in its market. From a change management perspective, Prodigo provides a shining example of how desired results can be achieved when we focus ourselves on doing certain things particularly well. As we know, when we don’t, pushback is a certainty.

Often referred to as “Amazon-like” or the “storefront” application in a P2P suite, Prodigo Solutions’ centerpiece solution is a client-branded, internal marketplace developed exclusively for hospital use. Known as ProdigoMarketplace and complemented by other specialized applications also purpose-built just for hospitals, everything about Prodigo reveals its unmistakable healthcare pedigree. Prodigo’s sole dedication to the needs of hospitals is distinguished and has helped establish the company’s dominance, now boasting half of the nation’s largest and most recognizable health system brands as customers. Prodigo also is one of healthcare’s largest Marketplaces by spend under management — having transformative financial impact on its customers’ supply chain practices and operations.

Spend Matters’ recent coverage of Coupa’s purchase of Aquiire details Coupa’s acquisition rationale and the general wisdom of its decision — but the deal also calls attention to a useful context that evaluators of “Amazon-like” e-procurement systems would be well served to understand. As these systems are tailored for different industries, they should be evaluated for how they differ, not how they're the same. Let's look at three types of marketplaces spawned by the Amazon model.

“Healthcare” and “cybersecurity” don’t seem like they go together, but a security forum this week highlighted how the move to electronic health records and the growing use of connected medical devices — the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) — makes hospitals and patients vulnerable. After attending the forum, it’s clear that hospitals know they’re targets, but they may not understand the scope of the danger. The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) held its security forum in Boston this week, and it attracted a diverse audience. IT, finance and supply chain executives mingled with network security professionals. So hospitals are viewing security in a cross-functional way, and that’s a positive development.

供应商风险管理市场包括一套高度多样化的供应商，其中许多人难以相互比较“苹果”的基础 - 与其他所有采购技术段不同。在这个市场内 - 这也可以以供应链风险管理的形式更深入到供应基础的层面 - 更多组织正在寻求尽可能准确地自动化风险管理。可以说，lexisnexis实体洞察力（LNEI）比其许多同行更好地定位，基于如何裁决数据和验证文档完整性来驱动风险分析，具有深入的，方法驱动的对话。

This third and final installment of this Spend Matters Vendor Snapshot covering LexisNexis provides an objective SWOT analysis of the provider and offers a competitive segmentation analysis and comparison. It also includes recommended shortlist candidates as alternative vendors to LexisNexis and offers provider-selection guidance. Finally, it gives summary analysis and recommendations for companies considering the vendor. Part 1 providedan in-depth lookat LexisNexis as a supply risk provider and its specific solutions, and Part 2 gave a溶液强度和弱点的详细分析和a review of the product’s user experience.

lexisnexis实体洞察力（LINEI）是一个现代化的“自助服务”供应商管理解决方案，全球数据/市场情报巨头为满足越来越多的市场需求供应商风险管理。LNEI设计为具有成本效益的现成解决方案，有助于采购，金融和供应链组织在自己的供应网络中管理风险，无论嵌套还是复杂。

这花费优点专业供应商快照探索LINE的优势和劣势，提供事实和专家分析，以帮助采购组织决定是否应考虑提供者。我们分析的第1部分provided a company and detailed solution overview, as well as a recommend fit list of criteria for firms considering LNEI. The third part of this series will offer a SWOT analysis, user selection guide, competitive alternatives, and additional evaluation and selection considerations.

When patients using medical marijuana go to a hospital, all bets are off. Not only for them, but for a hospital that frankly has no option other than to confiscate their marijuana (or try to do so), assuming they know about it in the first place. Keep in mind, the patient may be legally authorized by the state to use medical marijuana, so the inconsistency here is loaded with potential legal problems. Despite all of this, when the talk of medical marijuana comes up, most all of the hospital officials I have spoken with readily admit that they haven’t even given the subject much thought.

通过有机增长行业整合的组合，三组采购组织（GPO）提供商已经来到医疗保健市场。这些提供商 - 幻想，首屈一指和健康 - 控制在医疗保健GPO市场中的近75％。尽管在某些情况下，三个竞争对手的整合程度，在某些情况下，有针对性的不同市场并介绍了独特的产品。这花费重要的Pro Research简介提供了万博体育下载app概述健康，包括一般介绍，关键点分析，SWOT框架和客户提示，以充分利用订婚。对于GPO市场的背景，请查看我们的两个前面的简报，An Introduction to Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs)和小组采购组织：供应商透视和不断发展的GPO景观。对于特别的背景，特别是医疗保健GPO市场的视角和分析，请参阅我们最近的三部分系列：Part 1（背景，历史和介绍），Part 2（GPO批评和市场整合/分叉）和Part 3（关键的外卖，新兴范式转移和客户建议）。