CASE STUDY: LAKES REGION EMS Inventory Reduction of 73% How eTurns Automated Inventory Replenishment Saved EMS Provider Thousands of Dollars and Countless Hours – and May Even Help Save Lives WHEN BRIAN GALOWITZ STARTED AS OPERATIONS MANAGER AT LAKES REGION EMS THREE AND A HALF YEARS AGO, the advanced life support ambulance service was still using a disjointed collection of 20th-century methods for tracking inventory and supplies. “Everything was in an Excel spreadsheet or a Word document somewhere. There was no logic to it,” Galowitz said. Ordering and inventory replenishment for the ambulance service’s five bases were done “kind of by gut feeling,” he said. With people in the rural Minnesota and Wisconsin counties served by Lakes Region EMS depending on fully stocked ambulances t

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