Medline partners with Microsoft to enhance healthcare supply chain operations
Medline announced it is joining forces with Microsoft to address complex supply chain challenges facing today’s healthcare professionals.
Their shared goal is to reduce disruptions and enable more focus across all patient care settings. Together, the two organizations are designing an innovative healthcare supply chain resiliency solution built on Microsoft 365 and powered by Azure AI that is easy to navigate, predictive and secure. The solution will aim to leverage AI-generated insights to save time, headaches and hassle while eliminating onerous technology implementation through integrated inventory management.
The solution, called Mpower, will plan to tackle some of the toughest challenges in advancing the healthcare supply chain, including:
- Combining customer and supplier data to provide actionable, predictive recommendations for supply chain professionals. Powered by Microsoft Copilot and Azure AI, this transformative, predictive solution will be designed to include features that make current complicated inventory management workflows easier and empower users with proactive recommendations that they can choose to implement. In short, Mpower will aim to ease decision-making so healthcare professionals can focus where it matters most.
- Avoiding expensive, resource-heavy implementations for new technology platforms.
- Powering positive employee experiences. The planned solution will also target to help address the current talent pressures faced by healthcare organizations by making software more helpful, action-oriented and insightful. The intention is not to create heavy reports that require more from over-scheduled professionals; instead, the goal is streamlined suggestions to ease the workday.
