As we head into year-end, it’s the perfect moment to step back and confront one of the biggest operational challenges facing non-acute care today: widespread inefficiency fueled by fragmentation.
Non-acute clinicians continue to spend hours each week on work that has nothing to do with patient care — receiving packages, breaking down boxes, hunting for missing supplies, reconciling inconsistent data, or struggling to navigate disconnected systems. With care rapidly shifting outside the hospital, these inefficiencies are compounding, not shrinking.
Dan Young of Henry Schein referred to this trend as “fragmentation at scale.” And he’s right. Health systems today may oversee hundreds or thousands of distributed locations, but few have the tools, visibility, or unified data needed to manage them effectively. The results are predictable:
- Wasted staff time
- Inaccurate or inconsistent product data
- Frustrated clinicians
- Rising non-labor supply costs
- Operational blind spots across the continuum of care
This fragmentation is exactly the problem our newly unified organization was built to solve.
Three Leaders. One Unified Solution.
With the combined strength of Meperia, Kermit, and Genesis, we are now delivering healthcare’s first integrated supply chain intelligence platform — a single, end-to-end solution that connects procurement, contracting, supply chain, clinical operations, and financial performance.
Each platform brings proven expertise:
Meperia: Procurement intelligence & item master data management
Genesis: Clinical traceability & supply chain automation
Kermit: PPI bill-only automation & spend management analytics
Together, we provide complete visibility from procurement through patient outcome — eliminating the fragmentation that has long plagued non-acute operations.
Why This Matters Now
Non-acute care sites need more than tools — they need unified intelligence, standardized data, and integrated workflows that replace manual work and disjointed systems. According to your flyer, customers have made it clear they’re looking for:
- Complete visibility, not fragmented views
- Integrated workflows, not multiple systems
- Comprehensive intelligence, not partial insights
- Single accountability, not finger-pointing between vendors
We’re uniquely positioned to deliver exactly that. By unifying three successful platforms, we’re now able to provide:
- Procurement intelligence that ensures organizations buy the right products at the right price
- Clinical traceability that ensures supplies reach the right patient
- PPI expertise to manage the most complex, high-cost items
- Unified analytics for complete visibility across sites, categories, clinicians, and spend
What This Means for Non-Acute Care
For the first time, health systems can bring all non-acute locations onto a single, trusted platform that:
- Standardizes supply data
- Automates receiving, documentation, PPI workflows, and inventory processes
- Ensures contract-compliant, clinically validated purchasing
- Provides a unified view of procurement, inventory, and clinical use
The outcome is straightforward but transformative:
- Clinicians get their time back.
- Operations run smoothly.
- Finance gains revenue integrity and full spend visibility.
- IT manages fewer systems with one accountable partner.
This is the level of clarity, intelligence, and integration non-acute care has been missing — and the timing couldn’t be more important.
Looking Ahead
As we enter the new year, the cost of inefficiency in non-acute care has become too high to tolerate and too visible to ignore. But now, with Meperia, Kermit, and Genesis operating as one unified organization, the industry finally has a partner capable of addressing this problem on scale.
Fragmentation has defined non-acute care for too long.
Together, we’re redefining what comes next.
About the Author
Tom Frith has over two decades of healthcare sales leadership and supply chain experience:
- Genesis Automation Healthcare, formerly Meperia, President
Meperia , Executive Vice President: Drives sales, marketing, and business development- GHX, VP of Sales and Professional Services: Established content management business
- Neoforma, Director of Provider Sales: Grew content management solution sales to providers
- Revelocity, V.P. Western Sales: Initiated healthcare presence for materials and accounting solutions
- Mediclick/Global Software, V.P. of Sales: Helped create Mediclick; formed key strategic relationships for its ASP accounting and materials solutions