At Syft, we’re committed to helping hospital and supply chain leaders optimize their approach to supply chain management. As part of that objective, we regularly release new studies and reports related to navigating supply chain challenges and making improvements.
VIDEO // SUPPLY CHAIN
We redesigned the Syft Synergy mobile app for supply chain users based on real customer feedback to optimize warehouse and distribution workflows. Uncluttered screens and task simplification reduces unnecessary steps and clicks creating a more efficient workforce. Watch the Video
WEBINAR // Financial
A stronger, more resilient supply chain can reduce waste, create higher margins, improve process efficiency for staff and eliminate the risk of supply shortages, among other benefits. During this on-demand webinar, healthcare supply chain experts and industry leaders share how hospitals can effectively transform their supply chain processes to reap these benefits. Watch the Video
MARKET REPORT // Financial
With mounting pressure to improve the bottom line and bounce back against pandemic-induced revenue losses, it’s time for hospitals pick up the pace on supply chain improvement initiatives. This report can help them get started. Get the Report
MARKET REPORT // SUPPLY CHAIN
This report, based on a survey of 100 hospital and supply chain leaders in August 2021, reveals key survey findings, as well as five ways hospitals should respond to emerging supply chain challenges. Get the Report
WEBINAR // NURSES
Each year, we perform nearly 800 inventory counts across the country, and we’ve found that nearly all of our hospital partners are storing numerous expired and recalled products. Watch the Video
WEBINAR // NURSES
Most hospitals struggle with cumbersome tissue and biologic management processes. There’s a better way! Watch the Video
WEBINAR // NURSES
A recent survey of 100 frontline OR nurses and OR leaders found that only 3% said their hospital’s preference cards are always accurate. This is a huge source of dissatisfaction for nurses and surgeons. Watch the Video
WEBINAR // DECEDENT AFFAIRS
Hospitals’ processes for managing patients after death tend to be arduous and inefficient. It doesn’t need to be that way! This on-demand presentation highlights a new approach to decedent management. Watch the Video
MARKET REPORT // NURSES
Nurses are key links in the hospital supply chain, however, hospitals often overlook them when it comes to identifying supply chain improvements. This report, based on findings from a recent survey of 100 nurses, shares the top supply chain changes nurses wish their hospitals would make, and how current supply chain processes impact efficiency, waste and revenue, patient safety, and stress. Get the Report
WEBINAR // NURSES
Good Samaritan Medical Center and MedStar Health - While hospital leaders and supply chain leaders have taken steps to improve supply chain management, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic began, many have overlooked a critical factor when it comes to identifying and initiating supply chain improvements: nurses. Watch the Webinar
REPORT // NURSES
Nurses are in a unique position to help their hospitals improve the supply chain. In this peer-reviewed article, Syft partnered with the American Nurse Journal to explore six things nurses can do to improve processes. Perioperative nurses from Good Samaritan Medical Center are featured in this piece. Get the Report
VIDEO // SUPPLY CHAIN
Watch this one-minute and 30-second video to learn about the day in the life of a hospital supply item by using Syft Synergy and Zebra Technologies. With Syft Synergy, hospitals gain complete traceability, visibility, and accuracy of all supplies and resources. Watch the Video
WHITE PAPER // SUPPLY CHAIN
The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated a rapid shift in priorities and resource allocation at hospitals across the country, but it also has produced a powerful catalyst for hospitals to take the leap from tactical supply chain management to strategic supply chain leadership. As a result, hospitals across the country are rolling a new chair into the C-suite for an increasingly important member of the team: The Chief Supply Chain Officer (CSCO). Get the White Paper
WHITE PAPER // Decedent Affairs
Properly managing deceased patients is a highly complex process and involves multiple hospital stakeholders. In this white paper, decedent management experts—including ODA staff members from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, and Nashville's VA—explore how hospitals can improve their approach. Get the White Paper
WEBINAR // Supply Chain
Rady Children’s Hospital - Optimizing the supply chain across an enterprise is no small order – which is why many hospitals report success with a phased approach. In this panel discussion, Dave Graul, Director of Supply Chain Management at Rady Children’s Hospital, shares the benefits his hospital has realized thanks to a phased approach. Watch the Webinar
CASE STUDY // Decedent Affairs
Barnes-Jewish Hospital - As part of their commitment to providing high-quality care throughout the full continuum, Barnes-Jewish Hospital recently reengineered its workflows and processes related to deceased patients. Benefits of the new approach include streamlined workflows, reduced risk of errors, and an improved experience for family members. Get the Case Study
VIDEO // NURSES
With Syft Synergy, the stress and time involved in managing preference cards and supply carts for an OR procedure is a thing of the past. See how Syft’s point-of-use solutions have provided tools to simplify this process for nurses so that they can focus on what they do best: ensure patient safety and care. Watch the Video
WEBINAR // SUPPLY CHAIN
MedStar Health - While no hospital could have fully anticipated a disruption as extreme as COVID-19, the pandemic highlighted the urgent need for all hospitals to improve their supply chain management practices. During this webinar, MedStar Health shared how it is optimizing supply chain management practices and experience significant benefits as a result. Watch the Webinar
PLAYBOOK // SUPPLY CHAIN
This playbook provides a three-phased, prescriptive approach to help hospitals optimize their supply chain management processes, while also fortifying their supply chains. A fully optimized supply chain—one that is resilient, flexible, and proactive—ensures hospitals can withstand future disruptions (such as a pandemic, natural disaster, labor strike, or other event), and help them recover from the significant revenue hit caused by the pandemic. Get the Playbook
CASE STUDY // SUPPLY CHAIN
MedStar Health - Lack of real-time visibility into total supply usage and costs throughout the supply chain, from the loading dock to point-of-use, has significant ramifications. Learn how data-driven supply chain management can increase visibility to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and enhance collaboration between clinical and supply chain teams. Download the Case Study
WEBINAR // SUPPLY CHAIN
MedStar Health - With COVID-19 projected to cost U.S. hospitals $200 billion, according to the AHA, hospitals must quickly fortify their operations to recover and prepare. During this webinar, MedStar Health shared specific steps every hospital should be taking to create a more resilient, proactive, and revenue-enhancing supply chain. Watch the Webinar
VIDEO // SUPPLY CHAIN
Syft Synergy extends clinical systems’ capabilities by enabling an enterprise-wide mobility solution that integrates and updates ERP and EHR systems in real-time. With Syft Synergy, hospitals gain complete traceability, visibility, and accuracy of all supplies and resources. Watch this one-minute video and learn how to optimize your supply chain with Syft Synergy and Zebra Technologies. Watch the Video
MARKET REPORT // SUPPLY CHAIN
Syft commissioned Sage Growth Partners, a healthcare consultancy, to survey 100 hospital and supply chain leaders in 2020 to learn more about their supply chain management priorities and challenges, and what changes they are planning to make in order to optimize their supply chain performance. Learn what they said are their biggest hospital supply chain management challenges, needs, and priorities—and how those trends are changing year-over-year. Download the Report
MARKET REPORT // SUPPLY CHAIN
Syft commissioned Sage Growth Partners, a healthcare consultancy, to survey 100 hospital and supply chain leaders in 2019 about their supply chain management priorities and challenges. Learn the priorities, existing capabilities and challenges of supply chain management leaders, and what solutions they use to analyze and manage costs. Download the Report
WHITE PAPER // DATA ANALYTICS
Supply chain optimization creates significant savings opportunities. In this whitepaper, explore the growing role that machine learning and real-time data analytics play in enabling health systems to improve supply chain efficiencies and reduce supply variance and waste. Get the White Paper
PRESS RELEASE // SUPPLY CHAIN
Rady Children’s Hospital - San Diego selected Syft to drive its clinical integration initiative across the supply chain. Rady Children’s Center will use Syft Synergy to increase supply chain efficiency—building trust and collaboration between clinical and supply chain teams, reducing supply waste, and improving margins. Read the Press Release
ARTICLE // SUPPLY CHAIN
MedStar Health - Supply chain risks pertaining to the acquisition and management of supplies and devices was the second-highest concern among 138 hospital leaders surveyed by the consulting firm Sage Growth Partners in April. Learn how three industry experts say health system leaders can respond to supply chain challenges. Read the Article
VIDEO // SUPPLY CHAIN
Users engage with real-time and reliable cost and usage data which provides decision support for more cost-effective product choices. According to one source, PPIs (Physician Preference Items) constitute 40-60% of a hospital’s total supply cost. Proven through extensive research and experience with customers using Syft Synergy, PPI related savings potential can range between 5-8% of costs by working with surgeons to reduce supply variation.Watch the Video
VIDEO // SUPPLY CHAIN
Syft Synergy Platform gives supply chain and clinical staff visibility into products being used across the entire health system including those within perioperative and procedural areas and nursing floors. This enables healthcare leaders to better understand supply spend, consumption, waste, and variance, resulting in standardization opportunities and surgical cost savings.Watch the Video