Healthcare Supply Chain Technology and Strategy

Drug Supply Chain Security Act Implementation Plan Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has developed a 10 year plan (see infographic)   for implementation of the Drug Supply Chain Security Act. Link Here The plan includes implementation time frames for actions including developing regulations to establish standards for licensing wholesale drug distributors and establishing a system for wholesale drug distributor reporting to FDA and a public database with licensing information. In addition, the agency plans to publish standards and develop regulations for the interoperable data exchange to enhance secure tracing at the package level. As part of the implementation plan, FDA is seeking information and comments on the proposed  “Standards for the Interoperable Exchange of Information for Tracing of Human, Finished, Prescription Drugs, in Paper or Electronic Format,”  Federal Notice PDF Link Comments are due by April 21, 2014, and may be submitted following the instructio...

Ed Koch, the former New York City mayor who died in February featured his trademark question:   “How am I doing?!” Today, the legacy of “How’m I doing?” lives on digitally.  Facebook, Amazon, eBay and other huge brands have made billions by providing the forum for people to ask and answer that question. But how do you know and objectively measure how you are doing? our new  Trend KPI offers a concrete way to see and measure how you are doing.  With the addition of our MDS Trend Statistics Key Performance Indicators , the MDS system expands your ability to say how am I doing on any one of over two hundred specific system metrics and view in real time the percent change on a daily, weekly , monthly and annual basis. No longer do you have to do complex calculations for trend indicators you can simply add them to your MDS dashboard and keep track of sales, Inventory, Accounting and any other key areas of your business with a simple and easy to understand numbe...

Ways to Spot Trends Before They Happen  Want to recognize the next big thing before everyone else? Here's how it's done. By analyzing trends with key performance indicators you can get a snapshot picture of a specific key metric but by using trend lines you can see information in a visual way and react before others to gain a business advantage. As an example you can watch and forecast trends in item sales by category. Then you can track the sales volume of a specific item class to catch items where sales trends are up. Once the trend is identified you can then ramp up purchasing to allow you to have sufficient inventory to cover the increased demand and outsell your competitors by a wide margin. By using the one of the two hundred trend analysis graphs built into the MDS system or by customizing one of the existing trending tools you can easily take advantage of this cutting edge business tool. Contact Us today to learn how to get ahead of the curve.  For more information on ...

Have it your way was the slogan for a 1976 Burger King commercial but the concept still rings true today.  Customers want to get their information from you in a customized format specific to them. Some prefer PDF documents, others excel spreadsheets and word documents, and still other's in plain text or HTML web pages. By offering customers this type of information and in the format they want you build the customer relationship and add another reason they want to keep doing business with you.  Choose your Export Format With our updated MDS Print utilities reports and forms can easily be exported into a series of formats and emailed directly to your customers giving them the option to "Have it your way..."  Click below to sing the song and enjoy.   Contact Us today to learn how you can tell customers, "Have it your way.. "  For more information on TSH or MDS call The Systems House, Inc. at 1-800- MDS-5556.  Or send a message to  sales@tshinc.com Click h...