Healthcare
capital planning
& advising

Healthcare
capital planning
& advising

Optimize healthcare capital planning with Expertise and Governance

Keeping clinical operations running efficiently requires the right allocation of medical equipment resources. But healthcare capital planning committees are faced with more challenges than ever to keep facilities equipped and care pathways running efficiently. Tight margins, supply chain disruptions, rising costs, and even growing cybersecurity risks have limited the equipment purchasing options for many health systems. Some organizations respond by only reducing budgets and deferring capital expenses. 

Yet healthcare capital planning strategies can be so much more dynamic than simply approving or rejecting spending. Health systems can leverage untapped value in their own equipment inventories and ensure new purchases have measurable impacts on organizational goals. This requires an in-depth understanding of current inventory utilization as well as greater alignment on the needs and experiences of clinicians, healthcare technology management teams, & administrators. 

With tools from TRIMEDX to track and visualize more crucial data than ever before, health systems can execute capital planning activities that prioritize both cost-efficiency & robust clinical operations.  

Leveraging data in healthcare capital planning

Each of the pressure points listed above impacts how health systems need to manage medical device inventories and the strategic questions they need to answer:

  1. How can we be more strategic in what medical devices to buy and when to make the most of our capital budget?  
  2. Do we have the right medical devices in the right location to meet patient demand? 
  3. How can we support the demand for growing care sites and patient populations without increased capital budgets?
  4. Do we understand our cybersecurity risk profiles and include it as criteria in our healthcare capital planning process?
  5. Do we know which medical devices should or should not be replaced?
  6. Do we know which medical devices need an upgrade and include this cost in our budget?

WHITE PAPER

LEVERAGING A CLINICAL ASSET MANAGEMENT SOLUTION TO OPTIMIZE HEALTHCARE CAPITAL PLANNING

A nationally recognized academic medical center was looking to improve its capital planning process to optimize its clinical asset inventory and drive savings. They turned to their clinical engineering provider, TRIMEDX, for help to implement a comprehensive clinical asset management solution. As a result, the health system was able to save millions of dollars, implement a sustainable capital planning process, and improve communication between administration and clinicians.

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White Paper - Leveraging a clinical asset management solution to optimize capital planning (1)

Governance Council

Collecting plentiful data is an important first step in healthcare capital planning. But how consistently a capital planning committee evaluates data and applies insights determines their ability to make true, measurable progress towards a health system’s goals. Even armed with the most advanced data and analytics technology, healthcare leaders must have the right decision-making processes in place to capitalize on the wealth of information that medical equipment inventories provide. Establishing governance that relies on objective data and recommendations as part of the healthcare capital planning process results in sustainable long-term optimization and financial success. 

By implementing an organizational structure that fosters systemwide adoption of available clinical asset management technology and resources, you can maximize savings and efficiency through your entire organization's inventory. TRIMEDX assists health system leadership teams to put the processes in place to meet your goals. 

Implementing clinical asset management governance processes

  • Executive oversight committees to provide strategic direction, set organizational goals, and drive accountability in healthcare capital planning.
  • Systemwide steering committees to lead cross-system functional initiatives related to clinical engineering, technology implementation, capital planning, and process improvement.
  • Regional governance councils to drive program operations, regional planning, and key performance metric tracking.
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ACHIEVING GOALS THROUGH SUCCESSFUL HEALTHCARE CAPITAL PLANNING

Governance & accountability:

Program leaders set goals, priorities, and decision-making authority

Enhanced visibility:

See and understand trends in clinical asset inventory size and cost

Opportunity identification:

Assess inventory needs through utilization and benchmarking

Prescriptive recommendations:

Objective recommendations to replace, upgrade, dispose, and reallocate assets

Execute & follow through:

Focused execution to prioritize initiatives and track results 

Strategic Advisors on Your Side

TRIMEDX’s expert strategic advisors work alongside healthcare capital planning committees, health system leadership, and governance councils to help enhance data analysis, optimize processes, and implement strategic clinical asset management decisions. 

By integrating the objective device data, our strategic advisors can help develop a standardized process that is repeatable and sustainable for long-term optimization and success. 

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Forward Focused Strategic Planning

TRIMEDX strategic advisors regularly meet with healthcare capital planning and governance committees to deliver: 

  • Comprehensive asset planning process that leverages benchmarking and the TRIMEDX RUDR Score® to validate equipment purchase requests to avoid over purchasing devices or replacing devices that aren’t being utilized.
  • A multi-year CapEx plan that prioritizes device replacements to support organization capital budgeting forecasts.
  • Inventory optimization and savings opportunities through reallocation or disposition.
  • Standardized scorecards that track financial savings against organizational goals in the form of OpEx savings, CapEx avoidance and deferral, and cash returns.

Combining TRIMEDX Data, Technology, and On-Site Services Drives Powerful Results

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Gaining Clarity Through Healthcare
Capital Planning

Optimize inventory:

Which assets should you prioritize for replacement, upgrade, disposition, and reallocation

Benchmark performance:

Which sites have too much equipment that could be better utilized in other sites of care

Enhance healthcare capital planning process:

How to leverage data and technology to support strategic capital planning decisions

Avoid wasting capital budgets:

Avoid unnecessary purchases of new clinical assets

Improve device availability:

Ensure devices are available for patient care with clinical asset reallocation based on patient volume trends

Manage cybersecurity risks:

Understand your health systems risk posture and execute a remediation strategy that protects patients and data

Case Study

Wake Forest Baptist Health Leverages Healthcare Capital Planning Resources to Optimize Clinical Asset Inventory

Wake Forest Baptist Health, a nationally recognized and fully integrated academic medical center and health system, needed a fact-based, governance approach to capital planning that allowed them to right-size their clinical asset inventory and prevent wasteful spending. The TRIMEDX team was able to help them analyze their inventory, prioritize asset replacements, and develop a 10-year clinical asset management plan. 

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Capital planning in Wake Forest Baptist Health

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FOOTNOTES

1 TRIMEDX internal data