Infor, the industry cloud company, announced the success Bozeman Health has seen with its healthcare-specific artificial intelligence (AI), supply chain (SCM), and analytics solutions. As a primary healthcare provider in one of the fastest-growing cities in the U.S., Bozeman Health was challenged to quickly expand its patient care and services without negatively impacting quality of care and increasing costs. By partnering with Infor, Bozeman has successfully integrated AI into key processes so that the organization has the tools to be more efficient and accurate to meet demands, and make smarter decisions for supply, vendor and warehouse management.
In 2021, the organization put a plan in place to migrate from its legacy system to cloud-based technology in order to reduce supply costs and waste, overcome unconnected and unreliable supply data systems and processes, provide accurate information to local, state, and federal agencies, and get an accurate and timely assessment of supply availability and needs. Bozeman Health selected Infor because of the company’s deep expertise in the healthcare industry and its ability to provide a scalable, user-friendly, agile solution that could quickly help Bozeman boost efficiency and streamline processes.
Bozeman Health always had a big job in managing its supply chain for medical supplies and other essentials, and with so many different departments each doing their own ordering, and doing so in their own unique ways, lack of consistency made tracking difficult. It was necessary to adopt new technology to accurately and timely assess what supplies were available, where they were, keep a better handle on supply costs, and eliminate waste.
More recently, the team also needed reliable supply data for reporting to government agencies as well as to the organization’s incident command team, which meant scaling the vendor selection process and moving from a manual, error-prone process to AI-driven vendor management that could automatically identify the right supplier, resulting in better patient care while reducing costs.
“Bozeman is one of the fastest-growing cities in America, and as we increase our services to meet new populations, Infor Coleman AI ensures we are selecting the right vendors to provide us the best quality products to care for these patients. Without these automated insights, our patients and organization would be at risk as we try to select the right vendors for new services. It also gives us the comfort level to know we are working with vendors that are high performing and federally approved,” said Ryan Williams, supply chain director at Bozeman Health.
SOURCE: PRNewswire