About DLG

Data Leverage Group (DLG) is an organization dedicated to delivering efficient decision support systems and resources that enable solid healthcare operations decisions and recommendations. Using Strategic Process Management (SPM) as its core competency, DLG integrates an experience driven methodology into everything we do.

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Strategic Process Management (SPM)
SPM is a life-cycle process management methodology encompassing the introduction, management, improvement and decommissioning of products, processes, physical space, equipment, supplies and techniques (methods) in a strategic way. Every organization is a unique matrix of people, technologies, physical space and process. DLG recognizes this and customizes its solutions to the exact needs of each organization.

Many of these are clinical in nature but support processes and people are the key to making things run smoothly. By examining all of them together we ensure that only the best solutions are implemented. For example, the personnel involved with surgical procedures are trying to improve throughput. To do this requires statistical equilibrium and adherence to a certain way of doing things. Standardization and compliance, however, are the opposite of innovation and virtually preclude testing let alone embracing new products and methods.

Day to day process is where all transactions are done and where the source of all information that might later be examined lies. People transact in a number of ways, and it is here that certain controls can be implemented to a) keep the information pure and clean and b) facilitate easier training and learning and c) offer opportunities for changing processes midstream. This is true because a large part of the process improvement process involves trying to understand the current processes and then asking how waste can be removed and beneficial outcomes improved. By starting with a well-described process and measurable outcomes, an organization need only develop a culture of improvement to "turn the crank".

Areas and Concepts DLG Applies its Strategic Process Management (SPM):

	Business process definition, management and improvement
	Project Management and Process Improvement Team Building
	Implementation Plan Development
	Operational Assessments for all supply intense departments
	Data Management
	Data Shaping, Management and Tactical Plan Development
	Strategic contracting decision support
	Strategic Value Analysis Initiative Development and Management
	Supply Chain Spend Analytics
	Data integrity/item file cleansing and management
	GPO Contracting Analysis and Recommendations
	Strategic Procedure Analysis Management
	Supply chain benchmarking
	Dashboard Development and Management Systems Tools
	Database systems analyses and design services.
	Operational assessments
	Benchmarking
	Database Management Systems Analyses and Design Services
	Implementation plan development

Stephen B. Kinsella, Supply Chain Professional
Steve is a healthcare supply chain management professional with over 12 years experience in the healthcare supply chain. Steve has helped many healthcare organizations assess and identify non-labor savings opportunities, from operational redesign and improvement projects to extensive supply cost reduction. Steve’s focus has been to identify quantitative, data-driven opportunities for savings and improvements that support quick implementation.

Steve has extensive hands-on experience, both as a consultant and provider-based manager. Early in his career at the Harvard University Dental School, Steve designed and implemented a supply chain program that improved and expanded services while reducing total costs. As a Management Consultant with BD Healthcare Consulting Services (BDHCS), Steve played a pivotal role in the Strategic Cost Management Team where he continued his success in managing, directing, and leading healthcare supply chain project teams in the identification of detailed savings opportunities in product pricing, product standardization, supply utilization, and inventory reduction - transitioning these savings opportunities into real, implemented recommendations. Steve has also been instrumental in helping clients with data management projects and group purchasing affiliation assessments.

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