September 10, 2024- Owens & Minor, Inc. announced a new partnership with Google Cloud that combines Owens & Minor’s deep expertise in optimizing the healthcare supply chain with Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform to help drive meaningful enhancements for QSight®, an industry-leading cloud-based clinical inventory management system from Owens & Minor. By partnering with Google Cloud, Owens & Minor will strengthen QSight’s existing inventory management capabilities while laying the foundation for future platform and service innovations with the potential to dramatically improve the QSight customer experience.
The partnership between Owens & Minor and Google Cloud will focus on enhancing QSight’s ability to help hospitals and health systems optimize how they manage the thousands of medical-grade supplies, high-value surgical implants and human tissue products required for patient care. For providers, the implications of inefficient inventory management can reach beyond the stockroom and into the operating room, including a risk that expired products are used in patient care and inventory loss if products expire before they can be used.
Enterprise healthcare providers also face increasing pressure to deliver high-quality care while managing costs and optimizing efficiency — with less support from clinical staff. However, traditional clinical inventory management systems may lack the real-time visibility and predictive capabilities needed to effectively oversee complex healthcare supply chains, which can increase costs and lead to higher workloads for clinical staff.