Capital equipment can make a hospital grow or quietly drain millions through rushed buys, weak justification, and devices that end up parked in a hallway. We want fewer surprises, fewer spreadsheets, and a capital process that actually helps clinicians while protecting margins. So we sit down with Tom Derek from Open Markets to talk about the unglamorous but high-impact work of capital asset management and capital equipment planning in healthcare supply chain.
We get specific about why so many organizations still run capital like a year-by-year scramble and how to change that without waiting years for a “pe...