OVERVIEW
Healthcare providers depend on trusted product data to support clinical care, procurement, inventory management, value analysis, and supply chain operations. Product information must be readily available to clinicians, buyers, and supply chain teams while remaining consistent across clinical, operational, and business systems.
Many healthcare organizations face common challenges, including:
- Aggregating and standardizing product data from manufacturers, distributors, GPOs, UDI databases, and other external sources
- Product information fragmented across ERP, supply chain , EHR, and other enterprise systems
- Inconsistent or incomplete product attributes that impact purchasing and clinical decision making
- Limited visibility into clinically equivalent products and approved substitutes
- Manual maintenance and synchronization of product information across multiple applications
- Difficulty establishing consistent product data governance across stakeholders
Innovit PIM provides a centralized solution to aggregate, cleanse, enrich, and govern trusted product data across healthcare operations. By creating a single, authoritative foundation for product information, healthcare providers can improve data quality, strengthen governance, and ensure trusted product data is readily available to support clinical, operational, and supply chain processes.
INNOVIT PIM
Innovit’s PIM solution provides healthcare providers with a purpose-built solution to centralize, enrich, and govern product data across clinical, procurement, and supply chain operations. It consolidates product information from suppliers, distributors, GPOs, UDI databases, ERP systems, and other internal and external sources into a single, trusted product data repository, ensuring data remains accurate, complete, consistent, and current.
The solution enables organizations to enrich product records with additional attributes, and manage product relationships including substitutes and clinically equivalent items. Configurable governance workflows, role-based access controls, approval processes, and comprehensive audit trails help maintain trusted product information throughout its lifecycle.
With seamless integration to clinical, procurement, analytics, and supply chain systems, the solution ensures trusted product data is consistently used across the organization.
BENEFITS
Improve clinical decision making
Ensure clinicians have access to accurate, complete, and well-structured product data, enabling better product identification, discovery, and safer care delivery at the point of care.
Enhance procurement accuracy
Standardize product and catalog data to support better purchasing decisions, improve contract compliance, and strengthen collaboration with suppliers, distributors, and GPOs.
Optimize supply chain operations
Ensure consistent and high quality product data powers inventory, logistics, and supply chain systems, improving inventory accuracy and supply chain resilience.
Establish a trusted item master
Centralize and cleanse product data from multiple sources in a single repository, ensuring consistent, accurate, and reliable product data across enterprise systems.
Enhance operational efficiency
Eliminate manual data maintenance and fragmented product data sources, improving data quality, reducing errors, and lowering operational complexity across the organization.
Capability Highlights
Explore the core capabilities that enable efficient, scalable, and governed product information management for healthcare providers.
| Category | Features |
|---|---|
| Data Aggregation | Consolidation of product data from suppliers, distributors, GPOs, UDI databases, and other external data sources Self-service Supplier Portal |
| Data Quality | Data cleansing and standardization Matching, survivorship and de-duplication Auto-classification and categorization Real-time business rule validation |
| Data Maintenance | Product and catalog management Taxonomy and classification management Supplier and product relationship management Digital Asset Management (DAM) Configurable attributes and product data model Visual data compare and merge Configurable web forms Bulk data maintenance Contextual data maintenance (e.g. by supplier or care location) |
| Data Governance | Audit trail and comprehensive version history Easy-to-configure workflow Complete approval history Granular role-based security Data quality and stewardship dashboard |
| Data Publication | Flexible product and catalog publication Multiple output formats in XML, delimited or excel Digital asset publication Automated export to ERP, procurement, and other internal systems |
“Innovit PIM transforms fragmented product data into a centralized foundation for better clinical, procurement, and supply chain operations.”
Key PIM Use Cases for Healthcare Providers
Innovit PIM supports a range of key use cases that enable healthcare providers to manage, standardize, govern, and utilize product data across clinical, procurement, and supply chain operations. These use cases highlight how organizations can improve clinical decision making, streamline procurement, enhance supply chain efficiency, and establish a trusted foundation for reliable product data.
Clinical Performance Optimization
Ensure clinicians have access to accurate, complete, and standardized product data to support safe and effective patient care. Innovit PIM enhances product discovery by managing product relationships such as substitutes, functionally equivalent products, and other related items, while improving data consistency across clinical systems and enabling more informed decisions at the point of care.
Insight
PIM ensures complete, standardized, and verified product data is available to clinical systems, supporting better product discovery and safer clinical decision making.
Procurement and Supplier Collaboration
Streamline procurement processes and improve collaboration with suppliers, distributors and GPOs by establishing accurate and standardized product data. Innovit PIM provides visibility into equivalent product options and clearly distinguishes contracted and non-contracted items, enabling better purchasing decisions, reducing discrepancies, and improving compliance across procurement workflows.
Insight
PIM harmonizes trusted product and catalog data, enabling accurate procurement decisions, improved contract compliance, and stronger collaboration with suppliers and internal stakeholders.
Supply Chain Efficiency
Optimize supply chain operations by publishing consistent and high quality product data to inventory, logistics, order management and procurement systems. Innovit PIM reduces manual data maintenance, governs supply chain attributes, and enhances product data quality to enable better demand planning, inventory accuracy, and operational efficiency across facilities.
Insight
PIM governs complete, consistent and accurate product data for supply chain systems, improving efficiency, reducing errors, and enhancing supply chain visibility.
Centralized Product Data Hub
Aggregate and harmonize product data from distributors, GPOs, UDI databases, ERP systems and other sources into a single, governed repository. Innovit PIM eliminates data duplication and inconsistencies, creating a unified item master that improves visibility, supports better decision-making, and ensures all operational and clinical systems rely on complete, consistent, and accurate product data.
Insight
PIM centralizes and standardizes item master data into a governed repository, ensuring accurate, complete, and consistent product data across all operational and clinical systems.
Hosting
Different hosting options are available for customers.
Multi-Tenanted
Public Cloud
Shared environment with shared server
Single-Tenanted
Hybrid Cloud
Dedicated environment with dedicated server
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Private Cloud
Dedicated environment with dedicated server
