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U.S. Military Lowers Drug Costs By $389 M With Intermec Mobile Computing
March 20, 2009
•Case Study: U.S. Military Lowers Drug Costs By $389 M With Intermec Mobile Computing
By Intermec Technologies Corporation
"It is very difficult to work in a joint mission when each of the service medical logisticians has been trained on and is used to using different systems," said Col. Cathy Erickson, DMLSS program manager.
Clearly, what would most benefit the military would be one standard system, one efficient, cost-effective, secure and easy-to-use system. To that end, when the DoD built its new system, it included major functions supported by a wireless mobile computer from Intermec Technologies.
The change within DMLSS has helped save the military $6 for every $1 it invests in medical logistics information technology. It has allowed medical staff to spend more time caring for patients and less time restocking supplies.
"Primarily, we used Intermec as a source to help bring cutting-edge technology to the field and streamline our business processes," said Garry Duvall, DMLSS deployment manager. "Intermec's is a system that's allowing us to be more efficient doing receipt processing and conducting inventories. Bringing radio-frequency capability allows us to electronically transmit those processes very quickly, saving time and manpower."
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