MD Buyline introduces integrated capital planning and budgeting program

Aug 31 2009

MD Buyline introduces Buyline BUDGET, an integrated capital planning and budgeting program for researching, selecting, budgeting, and purchasing capital equipment.

Buyline BUDGET, powered by Attainia, takes advantage of MDB’s industry standard product, pricing, and custom analysis services and integrates it with the industry leading BUDGET application developed by Attainia. This service is available to MD Buyline members at no additional cost.

“Our goal was to combine the MD Buyline databases and custom analysis with the product catalog and capital budget process provided by Attainia BUDGET in order to bring hospitals and healthcare systems a capital budgeting program that offers content and functionality unmatched in the healthcare industry,” said MD Buyline CEO Mike Clemens.

“The MD Buyline service enhances the mission of all those in the capital equipment supply chain,” according to Attainia CEO Jeff Kleck. “Participating groups, providers, facilitators, and suppliers can share a level of collaboration, efficiency, and cost savings never before seen among these supply chain constituents.”

Buyline BUDGET features:

• Fully integrated MD Buyline databases, which can pre-populate project requests
• Integrated research tool to quickly build data-rich project requests
• Permission driven system to limit user access to areas
• Future fiscal year budgets to plan a purchase beyond one year
• Segment smaller, manageable budgets to represent various areas
• Pre-populated catalog of over 27,000 model specific products from over 2,000 suppliers
• Manage project requests over multiple facilities to identify duplications, standardization, and possible resource pooling
• Secure Web-based system with no hardware, software, or databases to install or configure
• 24/7 access to budgets and project requests anywhere in the world
• Easy access to GPO contract pricing at budget time
• Easy-to-use room templates