As medical and clinical challenges subside over the coming weeks, healthcare organizations will be facing a new normal in terms of financial and operational tasks. This discussion focuses on areas where automation can be used to alleviate challenges across the revenue cycle space related to COVID-19. Chris Schuette, Intalere’s Products Owner of Automation and Business Systems shares how automation alternatives can help deliver direct profitability back into your facility while streamlining workflows and easing the burden on employees ..read more

In this episode of Illuminated Path, host Lori Pilla welcomes guest Bob Yokl, senior vice president and chief operating officer of SVAH Solutions. They discuss how healthcare organizations can maximize profits and efficiencies within the supply chain through value analysis, as well as methods and trends in big data that create value for all healthcare organizations. Yokl shares his six-step value analysis system and common mistakes that value analysis teams tend to make in performing these functions. They also discuss the need for robust tools and databases as well as the challenge of physicia ..read more

In this episode of Illuminated Path, host Evan Danis welcomes guest Suzette DiMascio, president and CEO of Intalere partner CSI Specialty Group. DiMascio is recognized internationally as a thought leader, industry expert, frequent media contributor, sought after speaker and educator of all things related to the specialty pharmacy and the rare and orphan disease arena. In this episode she to discusses her strategic insight on marketplace trends – specifically, what’s driving the explosive growth of specialty pharmacy. DiMascio passionately speaks about her unwavering commitment to help every he ..read more

Intalere’s Chief Commercial Officer Steve Kiewiet offers a unique and multi-layered perspective, not only as part of a company on the front lines of the healthcare supply chain, but also as a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), a Board Member of the Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM) and as just a “student of the game” over 30+ years in healthcare. The podcast discussion covers: Some of the hard lessons that the healthcare supply chain has had to learn as a result of the pandemic. Key takeaways/top changes the healthcare supply c ..read more

In this episode of Illuminated Path, host Evan Danis welcomes guests John Carmelite, Senior Director of Applications IT/Business Systems at Intalere, along with Jason Warrelmann, Senior Healthcare Leader for UiPath. Over the past several years, intelligent automation, specifically RPA (robotic process automation), has emerged as one of the leading technologies in the market for the automation of business processes within organizations of all industries and sizes. In this episode, Carmelite and Warrelmann dispel the myths surrounding RPA and discuss how healthcare is starting to embrace automat ..read more

In this special episode of Illuminated Path, host Evan Danis attends the Intalere Executive Forum, an annual meeting that brings together top CEOs and administrators for discussion and shared learning. During the conference some of these C-suite leaders were asked two simple questions – What are some of the things that keep you up at night? And conversely, what are some of the things you are doing in your facility that have you hopeful about the future of healthcare? What is interesting about these raw, live set of interview responses is that beyond some differences around size and class of tr ..read more

In this episode of Illuminated Path, host Evan Danis welcomes guest Richard Mackey, senior vice president of Information Technology at Intalere. Mackey shares his thoughts on the pervasiveness of analytics in life and business decision making – and most importantly how healthcare needs to embrace it. Discover how Intalere is making it easier for healthcare providers to access data on spend analytics to drive procurement insights, service line analytics to pinpoint opportunities for profitability and strategic planning analytics to drive organizational growth.  ..read more

Supply chain resiliency is a term and phrase that has really gained traction over the past several months as we deal with the fallout of the pandemic and seek to apply some lessons and best practices so we can avoid making the same mistakes in the future. In order to make the healthcare supply chain more resilient, we need to identify several components that are vital to its success. In this podcast, Intalere Advisory Specialist leader Tracey Chadwell shares her insights on building a resilient supply chain, and the components to focus on, including building a cross-functional team, implementi ..read more

Intalere is a healthcare solutions provider that works with more than 100,000 member facilities of all sizes and classes of trade. We focus on elevating the operational health of America’s healthcare providers. Illuminated Path is Intalere’s podcast series where we shine a light on healthcare's best operational practices. Our Season 2 host is Evan Danis, senior director of Corporate Communications at Intalere. Join Evan for his enriching discussions with healthcare leaders, thinkers and innovators on how to achieve optimal cost, quality and clinical outcomes in order to deliver better care to ..read more

In this episode of Illuminated Path, host Lori Pilla welcomes guest Kreg Koford, associate vice president of strategic sourcing and solutions within Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City, Utah. Their conversation is centered on the strategic role of supply chain in healthcare and how shared decision-making can help make a collaborative, data-driven process more efficient. Koford shares the steps his team at Intermountain Healthcare took in setting the foundation for the process of shared decision-making to integrate with the clinical teams. They also discuss how clinical data, technology ..read more