Trunk Stock is a Risky Blind Spot - Medical inventory's hard to control - trunk stock is a problem.

IDENTI Medical explores the issue of trunk stock, discussing the implications on patient safety, inventory control and hospital revenue.
Trunk stock is usually high-value medical devices, implants and consumables and hospitals are required by FDA regulations to achieve end to end tracking on these items.
When products arrive directly into the procedure room via a vendor rep, they have by-passed hospital systems, so documenting usage becomes a problem.
Without documentation there is no link made between the product and the patient - a high risk scenario.
We'll look at the impact of unrecorded trunk stock on patient safety and also discuss the other implications for the healthcare organization.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Medical trunk stock is a risky blind spot
00:05 When unexpected supplies arrive straight into surgery
00:10 When is trunk stock used?
00:20 Invisible trunk stock
00:25 The perils of not being on the Item Master List
00:30 Non capture of trunk stock
00:35 Trunk stock is a burden on busy nurses
00:40 Non recorded stock happens a lot
00:45 Uncaptured items
00:50 Current workarounds to make trunk stock visible
00:55 Nurse workarounds for trunk stock
01:05 Back office workarounds for trunk stock
01:10 Two workarounds - same result
01:15 Risks of non captured trunk stock
01:20 Risk of patient safety and compliance
01:30 Risk for inventory management
01:35 Risk of expiry management
01:40 Cost of trunk stock
01:45 Charge capture
01:55 Risks of non captured trunk stock
02:00 How to capture trunk stock in surgery
02:05 Snap & Go for the capture of trunk stock at point of care
Item capture at the point of use is necessary for many reasons:
- to inform inventory management systems
- to capture charges so that the cost of surgery on medical billing is correct
- to maximize reimbursement
- to enable last minute pre consumption safety checks to be made
- to track the item for ease of any future recall
Trunk stock is a problem because it does not appear on the item master list and therefore cannot be scanned and documented like hospital stock.
Hospitals need a point of use system that can identify and digitally record every product used in surgery, even those not on the item master.
IDENTI used patent-protected image recognition technology as the ideal solution for trunk stock.
Snap & Go is an easy to use point of use item capture tool.
Circulating Nurses simply take a 'snap' of each chargeable item's packaging and it is recorded on the EHR in just 3 seconds!
Pre consumption expiry and recall alerts are also given as a final safety check prior to surgery.
Snap & Go records all items, if the SKU is not on the hospital's item master it can tap into a cloud global database for item verification.
Snap & Go is the easy to use tool that captures every item used in surgery.
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