Westport, CT – September 9, 2024 – LogicSource, the market leader for non-clinical procurement services and technology, and Cleveland Clinic are pleased to announce a collaboration aimed at bringing leading practices and benchmarking of non-clinical procurement to health systems. This collaboration will adopt procurement practices, honed by LogicSource over the past fifteen years across multiple non-healthcare industries, into healthcare by leveraging Cleveland Clinic’s top-rated healthcare supply chain knowledge. The collaboration will help health systems apply benchmarks from complex and difficult-to-assess spending categories. These benchmarks, successful in other industries, will be adapted to meet the specific needs and expectations of healthcare. Supported by Cleveland Clinic’s healthcare guidance, the collaboration will also provide health systems with access to LogicSource’s extensive category experts.
Health systems across the country are dealing with increased costs, talent challenges in retention and recruitment, while also navigating a rapidly changing technological landscape, all impacting their bottom line. “Health systems are broadly underinvested in non-clinical procurement compared to other industries. Yet, they spend between 20 to 25 percent of net revenue in the categories – more than their non-industry counterparts,” said Mark Van Sumeren, Strategic Advisor of Healthcare at LogicSource. “Alongside the team at Cleveland Clinic, we have confirmed that healthcare can benefit from practices and benchmarks established across non-healthcare industries to improve profitability for the organization and free capital to enhance high-impact clinical initiatives.”
Cleveland Clinic and LogicSource aim to share best practices learned from their collaboration at industry events with other healthcare supply chain and procurement leaders over the course of the next year. “For the most part, we all can agree that healthcare is at an inflection point for innovative solutions,” continued Van Sumeren. “We’re all eager for improvement, and non-clinical spend is one of those high-impact opportunities ripe for innovation that we have a responsibility to explore, advance, and share.”
