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Most Wired Supply Chain Innovator Award

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Materials Management in Health Care, in conjunction with Hospitals & Health Networks’ Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study, and the Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management, will recognize U.S. hospitals’ and health systems’ innovation in the supply chain through the use of information technology with the third annual Most Wired Supply Chain Innovator Award.

Hospitals and health networks are invited to submit a 10-page, 2,500- to 2,800-word essay about a recent supply chain project.

Click here to download a PDF copy of the Most Wired Supply Chain Innovator application.

Evaluating each project’s creativity, impact, cost and relevance is an independent panel of materials managers and supply chain leaders, including:

  • Ron Bredow, director, materials management, John T. Mather Memorial Hospital, Port Jefferson, N.Y.
  • Becky Daniel, director, regional supply chain Management, Texas Health Resources, Arlington, Texas
  • Florence Doyle, vice president, supply chain management, Catholic Healthcare East, Newtown Square, Pa.
  • Les Feka, director, supply chain operations, Swedish Medical Center, Englewood, Colo.
  • Victor Heinrich, AHRMM Region 3 board member, Linthicum, Md.
  • Charles Neikam, CMRP, director, materials management, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
  • Kathi Pressley, director, materials management, Olympic Medical Center, Port Angeles, Wash.

Hospitals can enter the Most Wired Survey, the Most Wired Innovator Award contest and the Most Wired Supply Chain Innovator Award contest.

Winner and Finalists

One winner and two finalists will be profiled in Materials Management in Health Care, mentioned in H&HN, and recognized at the AHRMM 46th Annual Conference & Exhibition in San Antonio, July 20-23, 2008.

The essay and an e-mail cover sheet are due to mostwired@healthforum.com by March 15, 2008. Winners will be notified in May 2008.

Read last year’s winning entries at www.matmanmag.com. Questions? Contact us at mostwired@healthforum.com.

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