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Omnicell, Inc., a healthcare supply chain solution provider, is tackling healthcare's purchasing challenges with a version of Commerce One's e-Procurement solution, which is customized specifically for the healthcare industry. With early successes in hospitals and healthcare networks, Omnicell is demonstrating significant results in terms of improving overall employee efficiency and morale, increasing contract compliance, and decreasing order delivery times and product prices. In this OnSite Profile, Aberdeen details Omnicell's supply chain approach for the healthcare industry, its selection criteria for choosing Commerce One technologies to deliver its customized e-Procurement solutions, and the benefits that these e-Procurement technologies are generating for the largest privately held hospital group in the United States.

Omnicell Deploys Commerce One's e-Procurement Platform as Antidote to Rising Healthcare Costs

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"At Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, online ordering has been integrated by Palo Alto, Calif.-based Omnicell using a network of electronic supply cabinets that automatically feed information through the supply chain. At a recent healthcare Internet conference, Rush's former materials management director John Webb said the system reduced costs by 24% in cardiology supplies the first year. Like Rush, many hospitals will pilot an e-procurement system in one department, then expand to others."

Omnicell (www.omnicell.com), Palo Alto, Calif. Omnicell filed in April 2000 to sell $57.5 million in an IPO. The company is using Commerce One's business-to-business e-commerce technology platform. Omnicell's automated storage cabinets for pharmacy dispensing are installed in more than 1,100 facilities.

August 2000

"Supply Chain Management Reaches to Point of Care," is authored by Steven H. Shaha, Research Director of GartnerGroup's Healthcare Research & Advisory Services, and was published on December 16, 1999. In the report, Shaha observes, "Recent advances and alliances now link point-of-care supply and pharmaceutical dispensing with Web-enabled supply chain management capabilities."

To read more about the next generation of healthcare supply chain management, download the GartnerGroup's Research Note, or visit them online at www.gartnergroup.com.

GartnerGroup's Research Note