Brian Rice, CIO of Cardinal Health is Harnessing Technology Strategy and Innovation to Better Serve Customers and Evolve Healthcare Delivery

Healthcare distributors are the backbone of the healthcare ecosystem, serving as the vital link connecting pharmaceutical manufacturers to individual pharmacies, hospitals, healthcare facilities, and other sites of care. Distributors manage a complex supply chain, harnessing innovative technologies to ensure safe, secure and efficient delivery, every time.

Cardinal Health is a distributor of pharmaceuticals, a global manufacturer and distributor of medical and laboratory products, and a provider of performance and data solutions for healthcare facilities. With operations in more than 30 countries and approximately 44,000 employees globally, Cardinal Health is essential to care. The company is navigating the complexities of healthcare and providing scaled solutions to help its customers thrive in a changing world. It strives to be a trusted healthcare partner by driving growth in evolving areas of healthcare, while building upon distribution, products, and solutions to meet customer needs.

Leveraging Essential Pharmaceutical and Medical Care Services

Ambulatory Surgery Centers: From high-quality medical supplies to tailored services that help you maximize efficiency and savings – Cardinal Health offers complete and customizable solutions to help your ASC grow. Strategic Stock Solution was developed to provide space reallocation and time savings by taking the burden of storage and inventory management from your facility. Strategic Stock Solution provides visibility to your inventory through standardized reporting to show its assistance with reconciliation, and expiration date tracking. The result: space and time savings to help you deliver the best patient care.

340B Services: It is complex and cumbersome. Cardinal Health services are designed to equip you with tools to reduce barriers and complexity, overcome pain points and strengthen confidence in the maintenance of an optimized and audit ready 340B program, so that you can focus on what matters most – the patient. The company’s goal is to provide experienced reliable support that enables you to expand your resources, minimize complexity, improve outcomes and optimize the value and integrity of your 340B program.

Lab Kitting Services: Cardinal Health’s Laboratory Kitting Services allows you to feel confident your facility is meeting collection protocols. Tailoring a custom lab kit to meet your facility’s needs will help you control product usage and drive standardization. From blood and urine collection kits to tissue biopsy, viral transport kits, direct-to-patient and genetic testing, the firm can accommodate your specialized kitting requirements. You tell us the challenge, and they will create the kit that supports your needs and testing protocols.

Cardinal Health™ Inventory Manager (CIM): CIM is a web-based solution, providing greater visibility and control to pharmacy inventory. The automated approach provides tools helping to reduce excess inventory and increase turns, while reducing the amount of time staff spend on inventory tasks. CIM is designed to support the unique needs of the pharmacy. Now, with an even more intuitive design, take advantage of tools to increase efficiency, and save staff time, while gaining even more control of your inventory.

The Ardent Visionary at the Helm of Cardinal Health

Brian Rice is the Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer and Global Business Services of Cardinal Health. He believes that technology, innovation and business services work hand in hand to propel Cardinal Health forward. In his role, Rice manages the teams charged with these symbiotic functions:

Enterprise IT, delivering innovative, reliable and secure technology capabilities that enable Cardinal Health customers to thrive in a dynamic healthcare environment.

Fuse, the company’s commercial technology engine, focusing on technology, design and products to reimagine healthcare and reinforce Cardinal Health as a leader in healthcare technology.

Global Business Services, defining and running globally integrated processes across the company; driving business improvement and process simplification by leveraging digital technologies; and maintaining a service-oriented, metrics-driven and continuous improvement mindset.

Prior to Cardinal Health, Rice served as senior vice president, chief information officer (CIO) and global business services for Kellogg Company. First appointed as CIO, his role was soon expanded to include global business services managing more than 2,000 professionals across six global and regional service centers. During a previous engagement with Kellogg in the 1990s, he also led an information technology team in Sydney, Australia as the regional CIO.

In addition to his day-to-day responsibilities, Rice is co-lead for the Cardinal Health Change Leadership Coalition, co-lead for Cardinal Health Innovation and is an executive sponsor of the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) initiative. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Covail, a Central Ohio-based collaboratory organization created to solve common artificial intelligence and cybersecurity challenges. Rice earned his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information from Ferris State University.

“We are navigating the complexities of healthcare and providing scaled solutions to help our customers thrive in a changing world.”