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Picture a perioperative program where supply chain decisions, physician preference and financial targets are debated from the same set of numbers rather than three separate ones. That alignment is what separates the systems capturing perioperative improvement from the ones still…
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- Dawn Perryman, Associate Vice President, Perioperative Supply Chain Solutions, Vizient, Inc.
- René Gurdián Jr., MBA, Vice President, SCM Data Analytics and Transformation, Ochsner Health
- Nattie Leger, MSN, RN, LSSBB, Vice President, Supply Chain Value & Clinical Performance, Ochsner Health
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