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Most hospital supply waste isn't dramatic. It's quiet.

It looks like an unopened item that got charged to a case anyway. A specialty product that expired before anyone flagged it. A par level that gradually doubled because shortages felt like a bigger risk than overstock. An order placed out of habit rather than need.

This isn't a people problem — it's a visibility problem.

When teams can see what's happening at the individual item level, waste becomes manageable. You can catch expiring products before they're lost. You can right-size inventory instead of guessing. You can move from reactive ordering to proactive supply management.

VueTrack™ gives supply chain and clinical teams exactly that visibility — so hospitals can reduce waste, prevent avoidable loss, and build replenishment practices based on data, not instinct.

If your team is flying blind on high-cost supply areas, that's the first problem worth solving.

Hospital Inventory Waste Reduction: What Procedural Supply Data Reveals - VueMed Hospital inventory waste reduction starts with an uncomfortable reality: in high-cost procedural areas, supply waste is not always easy to spot. A product may be opened for a case but never used. A specialty item may expire because no one saw the risk early enough. Par levels may creep up…

🚀 Stop chasing UDI deadlines—start leading with compliant, audit-ready data.

Join us for an expert-led seminar designed to help you navigate the evolving global UDI landscape with confidence.

VueMed's COO and Co-Founder, Lana Makhanik, will be a panelist discussing essential UDI compliance strategies.

✅ Learn the latest UDI requirements and regulatory trends
✅ Discover practical approaches to UDI submission & labeling
✅ Reduce errors, avoid bottlenecks, and streamline compliance
✅ Gain actionable strategies for GUDID and EUDAMED readiness
✅ Hear directly from industry leaders, regulators, and healthcare experts

🔎 Featured Sessions Include:

State of Global UDI Regulations – Jay Crowley (USDM Life Sciences)
US UDI: Successes & What’s Next – FDA (invited)
Healthcare Implementation Insights – Duke Medical Center
Compliance Panel with BD, VueMed, & FEIG Electronic
Future of UDI – GS1 US & Synchcor
Live “Ask the Experts” Q&A

This is a must-attend for regulatory, quality, labeling, and supply chain professionals in the medical device industry.

👉 Secure your spot today: https://lnkd.in/e6x6n5hc

We're thrilled to announce that the VueMed-Multicare partnership has won AIM Global's IoT Case Study Competition for 2026!

This Case Study highlights how, in 2024, MultiCare Health System implemented VueStat™, VueMed's electronic shelf label solution, to modernize inventory management across its growing geographically dispersed network of non-acute care sites.

https://vuemed.com/case-studies/multicare-clinical-inventory-vuestat/

VueStat enables real-time inventory visibility, centralized management of item status, automated replenishment, and immediate communication of updates such as backorders, recalls, substitutions, and reorder needs. Supply chain teams at Multicare can now monitor supply levels across multiple remote locations from a single interface and initiate replenishment across sites with a single action.

VueMed is also proud to be partners with Tadbik, the co-winner of the RFID category, for our work together at Loma Linda University Health.

👉 👉 For a demo about how VueStat works, please email us at [email protected] or contact us through our website at https://vuemed.com/request-a-demo/

The First Win — Stopping expiration losses: An analysis of how VueMed's technology solutions prevent expirations in an Interventional Radiology department.

𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐀𝐖𝐀𝐘:

• Once you can see waste, you can start preventing it — and expiration is the most preventable form, because you know the date in advance
• IR departments carry a wide mix of specialty devices (stents, coils, catheters, guidewires) with varying shelf lives, making expiration tracking especially important

𝐊𝐄𝐘 𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐀 𝐏𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐒

• Expiring inventory value dropped ~40% over 12 months (~$250K → ~$149K)
• Expired removed value stayed flat and low — less than 0.5% of total on-hand
– The flat line at the bottom means products are being used before they expire, not thrown away after
• The downward trend shows the IR team is proactively rotating stock, not just reporting on it

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓

• IR departments carry a long tail of low-volume specialty items that are easy to lose track of — exactly the items most likely to expire unnoticed
• VueTrack flags items approaching their expiry window so they get prioritized for upcoming cases
• The two-line gap tells the story: at-risk value goes down while actual losses stay flat. That’s ~$100K in reduced at-risk inventory without adding staff

What percentage of your IR inventory expires before use? Do you know?

For a no-pressure demo of the benefits of our solutions, email us at [email protected]

The Big Lever — How we help our customers gather, analyze, and apply data to right-size inventory in their Cath Labs

MAIN TAKEAWAY:
• A Cath Lab carrying ~$1.4M in excess inventory above par was reduced to ~$264K over 12 months
• Cath Labs are high-volume, high-cost environments where par levels tend to creep up as buffer stock accumulates over time
• The fear with inventory reduction is always “what if we don’t have what we need?” — the steady on-hand line answers that directly

KEY DATA POINTS
• ~80% reduction in excess inventory above suggested par levels over 12 months
• Total on-hand value remained steady at ~$2.5M — readiness was maintained while waste was cut
• VueTrack’s algorithm analyzes consumption patterns and suggests par levels based on actual usage, not historical guesses

THE INSIGHT
• High case volume, physician preference items, and a wide device catalog make manual par optimization nearly impossible in a Cath Lab
• Data-driven par recommendations give supply chain teams evidence to adjust reorder quantities and reduce buffer stock with clinical confidence
• Over $1M in capital was tied up on shelves — this frees it without compromising procedure readiness

👉 When was the last time your Cath Lab’s par levels were reviewed against actual consumption data?

🌟 For a no-stress demo about the benefits of VueMed's solutions, email us at [email protected]

THE PROBLEM — Waste you can’t see: An analysis of products opened but not used in an electrophysiology lab

MAIN TAKEAWAY:

• In an EP Lab, high-value ablation catheters get opened for cases but never used on the patient — at ~$8.5K per catheter, each incident is a significant loss

• This isn’t theft or mismanagement — it’s a visibility gap in the clinical-to-supply-chain handoff

KEY DATA POINTS

• ~$25.5K in wasted value in a single month from 3 ablation catheters (~$8.5K each)

• Two categories of consumed waste: product defective (can’t charge patient) and opened/not used (no charge included)

• Waste is sporadic, but high-value items create large spikes when it happens

THE INSIGHT

• Without item-level tracking, this waste is buried in aggregate supply costs — no one knows which products, which cases, or how often

• VueTrack surfaces patterns at the individual product level so supply chain teams can see what’s being wasted, when, and why

• That specificity enables root cause conversations: Is it physician preference? Case cancellations? Packaging issues? Clinical workflow?

How does your EP Lab track consumed-but-not-billed items? Is anyone looking at this data?

🔔 The latest report from the American Hospital Association highlights a growing reality:

▸ Labor accounts for ~60% of hospital expenses
▸ Workforce costs rose ~5.6% in 2025
▸ Demand is increasing as patients become older and sicker

At the same time, workforce shortages persist—meaning hospitals are asking more of already stretched teams.

One of the most overlooked opportunities?
➡️ Reducing time spent on manual inventory tasks

With VueStat, your teams spend dramatically less time spent on:
- Reordering and put-away
- Searching for supplies
- Printing, relabeling, and affixing labels
- Workflow disruptions due to missing items or wrong orders
- Handling returns due to wrong orders
- Manual inventory checks and bin scanning
- Traveling between sites to manage inventory

👉 The result: less manual work, more time for higher-value activities like caring for patients—and reduced strain on staff.

In today’s environment, addressing labor isn’t just about adding resources. It’s about removing friction from the work itself.

VueStat is not just improving inventory management—it is:
- Reducing labor burden
- Improving clinician experience
- Optimizing supply utilization
- Creating a scalable, data-driven supply chain model

Check out the full report here:
👉https://www.aha.org/system/files/media/file/2026/03/Costs-of-Caring-2026.pdf

📣 We are thrilled to unveil our new website and logo!

These changes reflect our evolution as a company and our ongoing commitment to providing our hospital partners with intelligent healthcare IT solutions that optimize clinical inventory, ensure quality of care, and support clinicians.

Our updated look embodies our dedication to innovation and excellence in all that we do.

We invite you to explore our new website and experience the new face of VueMed 👉 vuemed.com