Case Study: Examination Glove Process Initiative

Background:

In 2016, a national multi-center customer began an initiative to reduce the usage of exam gloves by requiring its centers to adhere to standing regulatory requirement versus a prior internal policy specifying when an operator changes gloves. The customer needed corporate-level analytics to evaluate each centers’ conformance to the new standard.

Plan:

HemaSource partnered with the customer using the MRP software to:

1. Deploy a new usage standard for glove usage to all centers across the country
2. Customize MRP reports to monitor ongoing usage at individual sites
3. Use the analytics from the MRP software to evaluate compliance to the new policy to center, regional, and corporate managers
4. Implement work flow changes/ training

Results:

After only three months, the MRP software findings resulted in savings in average usage and per procedure spend, with annualized savings across all centers exceeding $1M.