Articles
Shipping and Receiving, Suppliers, Logistics
Ordering, Shipping, and Materials Management: A Process Improvement Partnership Case Study
Learn about a comprehensive assessment and process improvement exercise on the Total Cost of Ownership model by UPMC and Cook Medical. Specific areas of focus include ordering, shipping, and materials management. In this webinar, we go into each of these areas in depth and demonstrate the impact that this project has had on both organizations.
Analytics & Research, Asset Management, Capital Equipment, Strategic Sourcing, Strategic Planning
Developing and Sustaining a Standardized Capital Replacement Plan Series
Capital equipment replacement planning is an activity many organizations engage in year after year. In this two-part series, we will outline a process of evaluating current equipment utilizing specific data elements and identifying where that data can be obtained and discuss how to use data and planning results to prioritize and follow established guidelines to replace only the equipment that needs replacing.
Value Analysis, Change Management, Cost Management, Materials Management Information System (MMIS), Physician Preference Items (PPI), Strategic Sourcing, Analytics & Research
From Invisibility to Transparency: Cultivating OR Cost Awareness
The perioperative services administration at Massachusetts General created a rigorous and rapid approach to raising the level of cost awareness among its nursing, surgical technician, and surgical staff. In this webinar, the leadership team shares how they used data capture to assess supply use and how they changed the culture in their hospital to be more cost aware.
Financial Management, Strategic Sourcing, Distribution, Lean/Six Sigma, Suppliers, Logistics
Self Distribution Model in Health Care: A Case Study
The Intermountain Healthcare Supply Chain Organization has embarked on strategy to drive costs out of the healthcare supply chain. As a part of that strategy, a consolidated distribution center was built for distribution of medical-surgical supplies, pharmacy products, and other ancillary services. The webinar focuses on the key lessons learned on the journey to self-distribution.
Capital Equipment, Products and Services Contracting, Cost Management, Suppliers, Procurement
Master of Negotiations Certificate Course
Price: Member: $196.00 | Non-Member: $396.00
Continuing Education Credits (CECs): 3 hours
Analytics & Research, Clinical Resource Management (CRM), Cost Management, Physician Preference Items (PPI), Leadership
Organizing and Executing Supply Chain Costs through Clinical Variation and Reduction
Reducing variability in products, supplies, pharmaceuticals, and other cost drivers is key to achieving margins in Medicare payment. This webinar tails the process used by Vidant Health (an eight-hospital system with a 900-bed academic medical center) to engage physicians in standardization resulting in substantial savings. We cover the process from beginning to end, pitfalls, discovery, and outcomes.
Capital Equipment, Procure to Pay, Suppliers, Value Analysis
Reduce Costs through Strategic Collaboration with Suppliers
Although suppliers and providers may hesitate at a partnership approach, it is possible to collaborate on total cost of ownership. Learn from the diverse experiences of expert providers and suppliers in the field as they identify the variables that make a successful partnership, where pitfalls can happen, and steps to overcome challenges.
Clinical Resource Management (CRM), Value Analysis
Value Analysis 201: Clinical Criteria of Products and Equipment
For product and equipment selection to meet the need for the best value for our patients, clinical criteria need to be determined during the initial phase of selection.
Change Management, Cost Management, Strategic Sourcing, Strategic Planning
WHY, WHAT, and HOW of Strategic Planning
Price: Member: $147.00 | Non-Member: $297.00
Continuing Education Credits (CECs): 3 hours
Strategic Planning, Cost Management, Physician Preference Items (PPI), Reimbursement, Strategic Sourcing
Improve Cost Reduction: A Multidisciplinary and Big Picture Approach
Health care organizations continue to look for new ways to reduce costs. Ultimately, data, clinical integration, and engaging multi-disciplinary stakeholders may be the major keys to success. In this webinar, we describe how a large health system sought to standardize endomechanical, suture, trocars, and surgical energy across multiple categories.