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Articles

Procure to Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Suppliers, Strategic Planning, Community Connections, Population/Community Health

Supply Chain’s Role in Social Responsibility, Community Health, and Sustainability

By AHRMM

Social responsibility is an emerging area of importance for all health care supply chain professionals to understand and participate in. This webinar examines the evolving needs of communities, the historic role of hospitals as a community enterprise, and why hospitals and health systems are viewed by the public as an anchor of local life.

Leadership

The Supply Chain Executive of the Future

By AHRMM

in this short video webcast, Mike Schiller, Senior Director, AHRMM and Dennis Othman, Senior Director, SMI discuss the four key pillars of knowledge and traits based on findings and feedback from various conference and work group meetings with supply chain leaders, individual interviews and literature research.

Cost Management, Physician Preference Items (PPI), Reimbursement, Value Analysis, Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement

Value Based Purchasing and Value Analysis Series Part 2: What is Value Analysis

By AHRMM

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 two reviews the importance of Value Analysis and supply chain involvement.

Analytics & Research, Benchmarking, Performance Metrics

Benchmarking Metrics That Make Sense

By AHRMM

Every organization has a variety of internal and external benchmarks at their disposal. Metrics need to be practical for each individual provider, and the supply chain must choose its measurements and comparisons carefully. In this webinar, we discuss meaningful benchmarking and explore several scenarios, useful metrics, and variation considerations to help make appropriate decisions that can improve supply chain performance.

Analytics & Research, Cost Management, Financial Management, Reimbursement, Suppliers, Unique Device Identifier (UDI), Leveraging Technology

Help! I Can’t Find My OR Supplies!

By AHRMM

Tracking surgical supplies is a challenge. Average returns for picked supplies is low, O.R. in-and-out traffic to retrieve items is high, and significant staff hours are spent checking consumption, restocking, and locating supplies. UTMC and DeRoyal have developed a "smart" radio frequency identification trash bin that tracks inventory used during a case, charges for that inventory, and shows where items are located in the room in real time.

Cost Management, Lean/Six Sigma, Suppliers, Logistics

Lean Six Sigma Process for Inventory Management

By AHRMM

At Hershey Penn State Medical Center, the supply chain and ED nursing team came together in a Kaizen process to reinvent the way supplies were being managed in the ED. As a result of their efforts, a new business process and system was implemented, which increased nursing satisfaction from 10% to 90%, reduced costs and stock-outs, and created a continual improvement process that supports the team’s ongoing needs.