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Hospital Focuses on Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Products to Save Over $125K

Wednesday October 25, 2023

Tufts Medical Center a 415-bed academic medical center, uses Blue.Point’s product utilization tool to identify opportunities that support the hospital’s initiatives, as well as improve the quality of care for their patients. Blue.Point’s utilization study and custom action plan helped the hospital’s value analysis team perform an extensive review of their negative pressure wound therapy product inventory.

South County Hospital Focuses on Incontinence Products to Achieve Savings of $5,000

Friday September 29, 2023

South County Hospital, a 100-bed acute care hospital, strives to provide top performing practices that offer improved quality of care for their patients. This is perfectly illustrated by aligning with Blue.Point’s utilization tools that focus on eliminating unnecessary variation in practice and product usage.

Teaching Hospital Saves $126K Implementing Our Biosurgical Hemostasis Utilization Study

Tuesday August 1, 2023

Tufts Medical Center is a 415-bed academic medical center, serving patients from Boston communities and throughout New England. As a teaching hospital, Tufts Medical Center has a strong focus on process improvements that enhance patient care. They actively use Blue.Point’s product utilization tool to identify opportunities that support the hospital’s initiatives, as well as improve the quality of care for their patients.

May is National Nurses Month

Wednesday May 10, 2023

May is National Nurses Month and an opportunity to recognize the hard work and dedication of nurses.

Hospital System Saves Over $112K Using Our External Patient Warming Study

Monday March 27, 2023

From a utilization and cost savings perspective, a 1,300 bed hospital system worked with Blue.Point to evaluate their usage of gown kits.

ShareSource Teams Up with Blue.Point SCS to Drive Utilization Efficiencies and Savings to Members

Friday March 3, 2023

ShareSource, a group purchasing organization, is thrilled to announce a strategic partnership with Blue.Point. Through Blue.Point’s data management tools, ShareSource members can save by analyzing product utilization, identifying savings opportunities, maintaining clinical product quality, and progress tracking.

Does your healthcare system focus on how clinical products are used?

Tuesday February 14, 2023

Many healthcare systems remain unaware of how "product utilization" can help improve the best practices around product review, selection, and implementation. Product utilization strategies in a healthcare setting, through advanced analytics, compares actual product usage among a single healthcare system and other, non-related healthcare systems to reveal practice variation.

Hospital System Relies on IV Access Central Blue.Point Category to Save Over $69K

Thursday December 29, 2022

A 200+ bed hospital system evaluated the utilization of triple lumen peripherally inserted central catheters (PICC). These devices are placed peripherally but are similar to a central line in that PICC lines deliver medications centrally. The hospital found 27% of PICC lines had triple lumens.

Surgeon Glove Utilization and Conversion Project Reveals Significant Savings for Southcoast Hospital Group

Wednesday August 24, 2022

In collaboration with Yankee Alliance, Blue.Point's Action Plan recommendations helped Southcoast Hospital Group achieve $94,665 in savings.