RSS Feed From its inception in 2014, Z5 Inventory has made its mission saving money for healthcare providers by optimizing their supply chain and eliminating product expiration. The latest effort in living up to that promise is the debut of Buy.Z5Inventory.com--the online store component of the Z5 Buy solution.
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Topics: supply chain management, digital supply management, selling medical inventory, selling medical supplies, buying medical inventory, medical supply, healthcare inventory, Z5 Buy
Cybersecurity, hacking, breaches – whatever you want to call it, we’ve talked about it before. We’ll talk about it again. Why? Because it keeps being a problem.
Continue ReadingTopics: crime in healthcare, cybersecurity, transparency, crime, data breaches, healthcare data, digital supply management, supply chain management, selling medical inventory, buying medical inventory, selling medical supplies
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.
Continue ReadingTopics: supply chain management, digital supply management, five to save, selling medical inventory, buying medical inventory, medical supply, crisis prevention, spinning plates, drug shortages, arctic blast, government shutdown
Despite the trust that the patient puts in their healthcare providers – that clinicians and other employees will only ever act with their best interests at heart – healthcare is just like any industry. Crime is perpetrated every day.
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Topics: five to save, supply chain management, selling medical inventory, buying medical inventory, healthcare inventory, selling medical supplies, digital supply management, supplier relationships, donating medical supplies, amazon, out of stock
Topics: 2019, 2018, new year, top 5 list, supply chain management, digital supply management, selling medical inventory, buying medical inventory, medical supply, predictions
The entire healthcare landscape will change in 2019. Or at least that's what everybody keeps telling us.
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The year isn’t done yet, but as we’ve already explained, we’re over it. More and more of the workday is dominated by discussions of the office party and debates of “how ugly does a sweater have to be to qualify as an ugly sweater?”
Continue ReadingTopics: digital supply management, supply chain management, selling medical inventory, buying medical inventory, healthcare inventory, top 5 list, 2018, whole foods, amazon, shark tank, the onion
We're asking the hard questions at Z5 this week. Questions no one dares ask. Questions such as: "Are mergers, like, good, or...?"
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Z5ers of every level – from co-founders to new hires – have been on the road this week helping hospitals all over the country conduct their physical inventory counts. We’ve seen our fair share of what, exactly, makes a good inventory, y’know, good.
But maybe that’s not what you want. Maybe you want an inventory that’s slow and painful for everybody.
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