Healthcare Capital Spend Simplified

Taking The Supply Chain Pulse · Jul 1, 2026 · 33m · transcript

We talk with HonorHealth Strategic Sourcing Program Director Matthew Mitchell about why healthcare capital is uniquely hard to manage and why demand for care creates real pricing pressure. We dig into practical ways to plan, fund, and measure major equipment purchases so capital dollars go further and technology actually gets used.

• Matthew’s path from government and healthcare to hospitality and back, and what it taught him about cost control

• Inelastic demand in healthcare, explained with simple examples

• Why capital management looks different across IDNs and why standards are still rare…