Articles
Analytics & Research, Regulations and Regulatory Advocacy, Reimbursement, Unique Device Identifier (UDI), Leadership
The UDI Rule: Are You Ready?
Hospitals need a tool to leverage the use of UDI within their health care organizations to empower the Cost, Quality, Outcomes Movement. This webinar explains the many benefits the UDI system can bring both to a hospital’s bottom line and to patients. With proper tools implemented by healthcare providers, UDI will help to lower cost and increase quality, thereby improving patient outcomes.
Analytics & Research, Value Analysis
Value Analysis, A New Model for Healthcare
Public and private reimbursement models continue to shift from paying for volume to paying for value. Today, value analysis programs must continue to produce savings while also supporting the attainment of high quality care. Listen as Dennis Orthman, Senior Director of Strategic Marketplace Initiative shares with you the exciting and challenging work that SMI has accomplished in partnership with the Association of Healthcare Value Analysis Professionals.
Career/Professional Development
CMRP: What I’ve Gained. What You Can Gain – Part 2
AHRMM members discuss why they chose to earn their Certified Materials Resource Professional (CMRP) Certification and the rewards they have gained personally and professionally.
Cost Management, Strategic Planning, Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement
Day in the Life of CQO: Examples from the Field
A panel of health care industry leaders shares their insights and experiences in creating a best-practice supply chain that supports the intersection of cost, quality, and outcomes within their institutions.
Products and Services Contracting, Suppliers, Strategic Planning
GPO or Local/Self Contracting Series: Expectations of GPO Partners and Summary – Part 4
Panelists in Part 4 of the GPO or Local/Self Contracting webcast series focus on what providers should expect from their GPO partners. In a Part 5 bonus section, included only in the podcast version, we listen to the panelists answer questions of those who attended this session during the AHRMM16 Annual Conference.
Leadership, Analytics & Research, Clinical Resource Management (CRM), Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement, Physician Preference Items (PPI)
Leading Change: Aligning Clinicians and Physicians Using Evidenced Based Data
Learn how to drive organizational and cultural improvements by utilizing cost, quality, and outcome data in the decision making process. This webinar explains how the use of trustworthy clinicians and industry partners in support role with physicians and decision makers leads to success.
Analytics & Research, Cost Management, Physician Preference Items (PPI), Strategic Planning, Clinical Integration, Inventory Management
PPI Strategies for Success
Price: Member: $49.00 | Non-Member: $99.00
Continuing Education Credits (CECs): 1 hour
Career/Professional Development
Ten Lessons for Writing – Part 2
Join Dave Kaczmarek as he reviews 10 lessons for writing, including sentence structure, commas, apostrophes and capitalization.
Analytics & Research, Data Standards, Reimbursement
The Value Cycle
In order to compare baseline costs to savings and determine areas of compliance risk, supply chain professionals need to work closely with their revenue cycle colleagues maintaining the chargemaster. This webinar explores how supply data elements in your item master and chargemaster play a role in negotiating payments, in disbursing across the continuum of care, and in assessing variations in clinical practice.
Cost Management, Reimbursement, Physician Preference Items (PPI), Value Analysis
Value Based Purchasing and Value Analysis 101 – Part 1
In this three-part webcast, Howard Mann, Vice President, Supply Chain Management at Cardiovascular Care Group discusses the basics and relationship of Value Analysis and Value Based Purchasing to achieve high Cost, Quality and Outcomes success. Part one explains Value Based Purchasing and its effects on hospital reimbursement.
Presented by: Howard Mann, Vice President, Supply Chain Management, Cardiovascular Care Group