by OpenMarkets | Sep 9, 2026 | All, Provider
Last month we found out why. We spent close to three hours in a room with the people who run capital equipment at a large IDN, mapping their process from the first sign of a need to the purchase order. They run it well. Their approval tool has been in place for years,...
by Trevor Wood | Aug 11, 2026 | All, Provider
A field note on the administrative work that migrated into clinical hands, and how to find it in your own organization I have asked a lot of nurse managers to walk me through how equipment actually gets requested at their hospital. Most of them open their inbox. It is...
by OpenMarkets | Jul 9, 2026 | All, Industry
Every device bought outside the standard arrives with unquoted operational debt that clinical engineering absorbs for the next seven years. A capital request gets approved on two things: a clinical need and a quoted price. The quote covers the box on the dock. It says...
by Kerrigan Schmidt | Jul 22, 2025 | All, Industry, News
Celebrating Innovation in the Chicago Region Chicago, IL (August 1, 2025) – OpenMarkets, the platform powering smarter capital planning and procurement for healthcare, will join fellow winners of the Chicago Innovation Awards — the region’s foremost annual celebration...
