Mr Mark Welch is Supply Chain Senior Vice President for Novant Health, a 4-billion-dollar United States not-for-profit integrated healthcare system that serves patients and communities in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. He began his career at Novant Health in 2005 as the leader of Supply Chain Operations. Since then, he has served as the Director of the Novant Health Logistics Center and leader of the Strategic Sourcing department. He was appointed the Senior Vice President of Novant Health Supply Chain in 2012. In addition, Mr Welch currently serves as one of the key operational leaders for the MNS Network LLC, a collaboration of three large integrated networks working together to reduce supply chain cost by leveraging volumes and spend. Mark also has a leadership role on several GPO national executive committees.

Mr Welch has been in the hospital industry since 1995. Prior to Novant, he worked as an Administration Officer for a community hospital in West Virginia, with operational responsibilities for Radiology, Ancillary Services, as well as Supply Chain. Before that, he was an owner-operator of a successful construction company in Ohio.

Mr Welch earned his Business of Administration degree from Ohio State University. He also holds a Master’s degree in Healthcare Administration from Pfeiffer University.

Presentation Synopsis
The relationship between chief supply chain officer and chief medical officer is critical to supply chain success in the healthcare setting

Novant Health has embarked on a journey to Supply Chain excellence, recognising that clinical leadership and engagement with chief medical officers is mission critical for managing the complex and rapidly changing healthcare economics. Clinical variation reduction required a cultural shift of physicians and supply chain leaders alike to achieve our common goal of realised savings. This is our journey.

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Novant Health approach to category management

Novant Health has struggled for years to identify opportunities for savings using traditional categorisation. This session will talk about Novant Health’s journey in looking for ways to clean and align data in a more useful manner, particularly on how and why the organisation developed its user defined categories (UDC). Attendees will also hear discussions on data integrity and what it means to the process, as well as the development of a laser focus sourcing portfolio for our team members.