Articles
Benchmarking, Cost Management, Purchased Services, Strategic Sourcing
Seven Pitfalls of Purchased Services
By AHRMM
Purchased services typically represents over 20 percent of a healthcare system’s total annual expenditures. During this webinar, we discuss best practices to understand actionable data, identify smaller spend categories for your staff to tackle, and decide when it is safe to go at it alone versus when to recruit additional resources.
Change Management, Cost Management, Financial Management, Strategic Planning
Creating an Agile Supply Chain Through HRO Inventory Management
NYU Langone Health adopted High Reliability Organization (HRO) principles and developed a transformational approach in order to support clinical needs and drive quality patient outcomes. In this webinar, supply chain leaders discuss NYU Langone's supply chain transformation. Presenters cover HRO education and concept training, action-oriented committees and project specific development, as well as planning and implementation.
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.
Benchmarking, Strategic Planning
Introduction to Benchmarking
By AHRMM
In today’s value-based care environment, hospitals continually strive to improve patient quality and outcomes. Benchmarking is a powerful tool that, if interpreted and used properly, can be a useful guide in this journey. This webinar provides an understanding of the purpose and use of a benchmarking strategy. The importance of benchmarking will be outlined, metrics defined, and tracking processes explained.
Analytics & Research, Clinical Resource Management (CRM), Cost Management, Physician Preference Items (PPI), Leadership
Organizing and Executing Supply Chain Costs through Clinical Variation and Reduction
By AHRMM
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.
Disaster/Outbreak Preparedness, Financial Management, Strategic Sourcing, Suppliers, Strategic Planning
Product Disruptions Are Impacting My Business Continuity
By AHRMM
Business continuity ensures that an organization can continue to operate in the event of a serious incident or disaster and encompasses strategic planning and preparation. In this webinar, a provider, a supplier, and a distributor discuss their roles and how they work together to develop and implement product continuity plans for a disaster or emergency.
Certified Materials & Resource Professional (CMRP), Career/Professional Development
The CMRP Renewal Process – Plan Early, Document Often
By AHRMM
Congratulations, you earned your Certified Materials & Resource Professional (CMRP) Certification! You may have just earned it, but experts say that you should think about how you will keep it – and soon. Allen Archer discusses the need to plan your way to renewal now and the documentation needed that you need to maintain.
Presented by: Allen Archer, System Director of Supply Chain, Houston Healthcare Inc.
Leadership
An Executive Decision: Understanding What Is Required to Reach the C-Suite
By AHRMM
AHRMM created this book for engaged and motivated supply chain leaders in the making. Within is information on where to begin and what to do while you're on the path to achieving your goal, how to take advantage of changes in the industry, as well as the skills you'll need to develop along the way. The purpose of this book is to help make the seemingly long journey to the C-Suite much less intimidating and ambiguous. And who better to give advice on earning an executive position than those who've already made the journey?
Change Management, Suppliers, Strategic Planning
Building Trust and Collaboration Between Providers and Suppliers
By AHRMM
In this session, Dennis Black and Dennis Orthman share their experiences and best practices to improve and expand the provider-supplier relationship.
Analytics & Research, Benchmarking, Products and Services Contracting, Physician Preference Items (PPI), Reimbursement, Clinical Resource Management (CRM), Value Analysis
Hospital Collaboration Pays Off Even for Implants
By AHRMM
Yankee Alliance facilitated an Orthopedic Total Joint Collaborative in order to identify opportunities for quality improvement and cost reduction, resulting in documented savings of over $8M. In this webinar, the collaborative approach is reviewed as well as the methods deployed to achieve savings, including implant and reimbursement benchmarking, contract strategies, and perioperative supplies utilizing data analysis.