Member Testimonials
Hear what our members say about SMI
Steve Gundersen BD
Watching relationships come together
When we first started SMI the level of trust, relationship just wasn’t there among trading partners. And now as you come to these meetings, you realize that it's very difficult to determine who is a provider & who is an industry partner.
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Karen Conway GHX
Bringing the right people to the table
SMI really attracts some of the very best thinkers. People who are looking at how we can do things differently. The folks spend a lot of time; we educate one another, we learn from one another, we ask questions of one another.
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John Gaida Retired-Texas Health Resources
Member driven
SMI is a wonderful organization made up of suppliers and IDN Executives. We ask our members, what do you want to hear about and see us do at SMI.
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Keith Kutcha Retired-Owens & Minor
Collaborating on initiatives
The membership of SMI is leading the way in terms of developing data standards; this has the biggest impact on our industry over the next 10-15 years. Without standards, it is difficult to really optimize the performance of the supply chain.
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Nancy LeMaster Retired-BJC HealthCare
Improving the healthcare system
At SMI suppliers & providers work together to really improve the supply chain and bring the overall cost of healthcare down. You really work together to eliminate waste, change the way we do business and to ultimately improve healthcare for everyone.
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Vance Moore Retired-Mercy / ROi
Resolving problems before they became unmanageable
There’s great insight. SMI is a great forum to learn about what’s going on in the industry & sync up with other people who are struggling with the exact same problems that I am. My ability to actually interact with them and find out how they would do it, even if I don’t follow their guidance, it at least lets me know that there are other ways of doing things and it challenges me in the way we do things – it just makes us better.
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