How Ochsner Health Is Aligning Perioperative Performance, Supply Chain, & Clinical Variation
Thursday, June 4th, 2026 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT
The perioperative environment is one of the largest untapped sources of financial and operational improvement in health systems — and most organizations still aren't capturing it.
Unwarranted clinical variation, misaligned supply chain strategy and siloed decision-making quietly erode margins without triggering obvious alarms. The systems pulling ahead are the ones connecting data, physicians and finance around a shared operational picture.
Ochsner Health is one of them. In this webinar, leaders from Ochsner will share how they're approaching perioperative optimization through advanced analytics, physician engagement and cross-functional collaboration — and what it takes to translate data into decisions that actually move margins.
You'll leave with:
Unwarranted clinical variation, misaligned supply chain strategy and siloed decision-making quietly erode margins without triggering obvious alarms. The systems pulling ahead are the ones connecting data, physicians and finance around a shared operational picture.
Ochsner Health is one of them. In this webinar, leaders from Ochsner will share how they're approaching perioperative optimization through advanced analytics, physician engagement and cross-functional collaboration — and what it takes to translate data into decisions that actually move margins.
You'll leave with:
- How to identify the key drivers of perioperative margin leakage in your organization
- Strategies to reduce clinical variation through physician alignment and data transparency
- How supply chain optimization directly affects financial and clinical performance
- Approaches to building collaboration across medical, operational and finance teams
Moderator:
Dawn Perryman
Associate Vice President, Perioperative Supply Chain Solutions, Vizient, Inc.
Presenters
Rene Gurdian Jr., MBA
Vice President, SCM Data Analytics and Transformation
Ochsner Health