STEWARD HEALTH CARE
92 evaluate from a clinical perspective how every single product that we introduce into the supply chain and deliver to our clinicians helps us decide whether it ’ s better than something we ’ re already using .”
Having taken steps to embrace digitalisation over the past couple of years , Steward Health Care is currently operating two ERPs and is well underway in its digital transformation journey . “ We ’ re on a digital path ,” affirms Prokopis . “ We know we ’ ve got to get to one enterprise resource planning capability , and we ’ re in the process of undergoing that transformation now . What ’ s critically important from there is how you take that information and begin to use it , in order to get better consumption information at the point of care and understand what your inventory positions are . We ’ re also creating a mission control capability that will allow us to predict our ability to deliver care in advance . It ’ s not enough that we schedule a patient for an operating room procedure two or three weeks out . We also then have to understand
“We fundamentally believe innovation is the core ”
— Michael Prokopis , Vice President of Supply Chain at Steward Health Care
AUGUST 2019