Prodigo Solutions announced that the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare network has launched Prodigo’s Marketplace, a virtual e-commerce solution that enables maximum, sustained cost savings throughout the healthcare supply chain.
In a partnership with Liberty IT Solutions, Prodigo finalized the VA Supply Chain Master Catalog (SCMC) project and implemented Prodigo’s Marketplace solution as a Single Source of Truth (SSoT) for all of the VA medical and surgical contracted items. On June 8, the SCMC went live with a Prodigo Master Catalog that brings together supply chain data from across the enterprise to create a searchable, cloud-hosted catalog of over 97,000 VA-contracted medical supply items. The VA has 1,255 healthcare facilities serving nine million enrolled veterans each year.
Ted Dagnal, Vice President of Government Strategy at Prodigo Solutions, reflected on the extensive work done by Prodigo, stating “We received multiple disparate data sources from several VA systems and ingested, harmonized, enriched and extracted the content into catalogs and loaded them into the Marketplace. We set up and configured the Marketplace to allow VA Users to access the content that is correct and relevant to their VA station or hospital.”
Additional highlights include:
· Single Sign on over SAML2, a new functionality engineered, designed and built to support the VA Personal Identity Verification (PIV) card authentication process
· 508 Compliance, a new functionality built into the Marketplace that supports users with disabilities to interact with the system using assisted technology
· Item Export, a functionality that allows users to add items to a cart and extract data from the system to share with colleagues and analyze the catalog content.
