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The Z5 Inventory blog is brought to you by the geniuses behind Z5 Count,Z5 Analytics and Z5 Optimization services, which saves hospitals money at every step of your inventory's lifecycle.
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Five To Save | It's Easier Not To Do The Work

9/3/2019

It can often feel like you're just a small, disconnected part of healthcare overall - that what you do doesn't impact the success or failure of your healthcare organization. 

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Topics: selling medical inventory, supply chain management, medical supply, five to save, digital supply management, cybersecurity, healthcare inventory, buying medical inventory, labor

Five To Save | How The Supply Chain Is Putting Patients At Risk

8/19/2019

Faster and cheaper stops being better when patient outcomes get worse.

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Topics: selling medical inventory, supply chain management, medical supply, five to save, digital supply management, cybersecurity, it security, healthcare inventory, buying medical inventory, data breaches, patient data

Five To Save | When Government and Healthcare Fight, We All Lose

6/10/2019

 

Regardless of who you are, when these two titans clash, it affects you in profound ways.

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Topics: selling medical inventory, supply chain management, medical supply, five to save, digital supply management, healthcare inventory, buying medical inventory, year of the pig, government

Five To Save | Big Data Is The Hero You Need Right Now

5/28/2019

When you hear someone say the words “Big Data,” how are they saying it? Probably less “The Super Hero Who’s Gonna Save Us All” and more “The Big Bad That’s Going To Destroy Everything We Hold Dear.”

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Topics: selling medical inventory, supply chain management, medical supply, five to save, digital supply management, healthcare inventory, buying medical inventory, year of the pig, super heroes

Five To Save | More Money, More Problems. Less Money, More Problems, Too.

5/13/2019

 

Money talks. Money never sleeps. Money can’t buy me love. We’re told a lot about what money can and can’t do. We’re also told... 

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Topics: selling medical inventory, supply chain management, mergers, medical supply, savings, five to save, digital supply management, buying medical inventory, year of the pig

Five To Save | It's Hard To Push Things Forward When You're Afraid

4/15/2019

 

Level up. Up your game. Step Up 2: The Streets. However you want to say it, healthcare and its supply chain could use some improvements. 

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Topics: Austin, TX, selling medical inventory, supply chain management, medical supply, five to save, digital supply management, buying medical inventory, crime, apple

Five To Save | There's Only One Thing You Need To Be Reading Right Now

3/25/2019

You were asked, "What's the best area to achieve savings?" and said, "Supply Chain Management." Survey says...

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Topics: selling medical inventory, supply chain management, medical supply, five to save, digital supply management, survey data, healthcare inventory, buying medical inventory, healthcare logistics, steve harvey, syft, sage growth partners

Five To Save | Why Wait For A Catastrophe? | Feb. 1, 2019

2/4/2019

Reacting to crises as they come is like being a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. You're constantly panicking, and you don't know how to get free. Lucky we're here to pick you up and carry you out. 

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Topics: selling medical inventory, supply chain management, medical supply, five to save, digital supply management, buying medical inventory, crisis prevention, spinning plates, drug shortages, government shutdown, arctic blast

Five To Save | Your Hospital Is Your Business. Act Like It | Jan. 21, 2019

1/21/2019

Here's a crazy idea: running a hospital like a business.

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Topics: selling medical inventory, selling medical supplies, supply chain management, amazon, five to save, digital supply management, healthcare inventory, buying medical inventory, donating medical supplies, out of stock, supplier relationships

Five To Save | New Year, New Strategies To Keep Your Job | Jan. 7, 2019

1/7/2019

The entire healthcare landscape will change in 2019. Or at least that's what everybody keeps telling us. 

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Topics: selling medical inventory, selling medical supplies, supply chain management, five to save, digital supply management, healthcare inventory, buying medical inventory, new year, 2019, patient centered supply chain