--- title: Five To Save | What Would You Do With $12 Million? description: If you had $12 Million, would you hire a full-time personal sushi chef or improve your hospital? image: https://www.z5inventory.com/hubfs/FTS%20-%20Twelve%20Million.jpg --- [Skip to content](https://www.z5inventory.com/blog/five-to-save-what-would-you-do-with-12-million#main-content) [![Group 1211](https://www.z5inventory.com/hubfs/Group%201211.png)](https://www.z5inventory.com) - [Solutions](https://www.z5inventory.com/solutions) - [Z5 Count](https://www.z5inventory.com/solutions-2021-0-1) - [Z5 Fixed Asset](https://www.z5inventory.com/solution/fixedassetcount) - [Z5 Analytics](https://www.z5inventory.com/solutions-2021-0) - [Z5 Optimization](https://www.z5inventory.com/solutions-2021-0-0) - [Who We Serve](https://www.z5inventory.com/solutions-2022) - Company - [About Us](https://www.z5inventory.com/contact-2021) - [Contact Us](https://www.z5inventory.com/contact) - [Careers](https://www.z5inventory.com/careers) - [Blog](https://www.z5inventory.com/blog) - [Login](https://prod.z5development.com/) # Five To Save | What Would You Do With $12 Million? [Alex Diamond](https://www.z5inventory.com/blog/author/alex-diamond) 11/25/2019 ![What would you do with an extra $12 Million? The Z5 Piggy Bank is swimming in it.](https://www.z5inventory.com/hs-fs/hubfs/FTS%20-%20Twelve%20Million.jpg?width=1200&name=FTS%20-%20Twelve%20Million.jpg) (We'd buy a pig pen made of diamonds. It wouldn't feel good, but it would feel fancy.) By now there's a good chance you've seen [the Navigant study](https://www.navigant.com/-/media/www/site/insights/healthcare/2019/supply-chain-analysis-infographic.pdf) about the waste in healthcare's supply chain. If for some reason you haven't been listening to us when we said that US providers [waste $5 Billion every year](https://www.z5inventory.com/blog/count-sheets-cost-billions) due just to expiration, maybe you'll listen to them when they say US healthcare has a $25 Billion supply chain problem.  They further broke that down to say that each hospital could be saving $12.1 Million annually.  With $12.1 Million, you could start up [25 Cold Stone Creamery franchises](https://coldstonecreameryfranchise.com/). Or buy 300 [hideous Tesla Cybertrucks](https://www.wired.com/story/is-teslas-cybertruck-pickup-real/). Or you could hire more than [150 additional clinicians](https://www.modernhealthcare.com/operations/supply-chain-tweaks-could-help-average-hospital-hire-up-165-more-nurses).  Regardless you won't have to spend anything on this blog. We're offering up the rest of the Top 5 articles from the last week for free:  1. We'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention the [Google / Ascension data sharing](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/cybersecurity/ascension-leader-shares-8-reactions-to-reports-on-system-s-work-with-google.html?oly_enc_id=0673B4147145E6U) story. Which is totally legal and [happens all the time](https://www.computerworld.com/article/3453818/yes-googles-using-your-healthcare-data-and-its-not-alone.html). But - as [the whistleblower asks](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/14/im-the-google-whistleblower-the-medical-data-of-millions-of-americans-is-at-risk) - should it be?  2. What do [hospitals and farms have in common](https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertpearl/2019/10/28/hospitals-farms/#6db691c52762)? There are a lot fewer of them now than they used to be, and the approach to managing each has undergone some strikingly similar changes.  3. The good great news is that [healthcare is the strongest part of the US economy](https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/18/economy/health-care-jobs-us-labor-market/index.html).  4. You know what program kind of sucks? [Excel](https://www.supplychaindive.com/news/procurement-excel-spreadsheet/567350/).  5. But it's a big step up from the [fax machines and pagers](https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/practices/it-1970-or-2019-89-healthcare-industry-still-using-fax-machines-39-using-pagers-survey) that are still an epidemic in hospitals.  We don't even want to calculate how many pagers we could get for $12.1 Million. Because the number we would buy would remain the same: 0. As always, our email subscribers get one EXTRA article for EXTRA free. (You might have noticed that there tends to be slightly more than five articles in our Top 5. 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