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Archive >  Surgical Supplies 2005

Automating the OR Supply Chain

Your high-tech options for improving purchasing and inventory management.

Barry Sweigart, RN

Surgery can generate 60 percent to 70 percent of a hospital's total revenues, and that's even though the average OR runs at only about two-thirds of its capacity. But when you fail to manage the supply chain well, the results are high costs and excessive waste, a low percentage of standardization among supplies and process that is unnecessarily labor-intensive.

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