Articles
Career/Professional Development
CMRP: What I Gained, What You Can Gain - Part 3
By AHRMM
AHRMM members discuss why they chose to earn their Certified Materials Resource Professional (CMRP) Certification and the rewards they have gained personally and professionally.
Finance & Budgeting, Benchmarking, Cost Management, Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs), Purchased Services, Strategic Sourcing
Pitfalls Of Purchased Services
By AHRMM
Discover tips that can separate a health system’s success or failure when creating a viable purchased services sourcing program in this short video webcast.
Leveraging Technology, Inventory Management, Unique Device Identifier (UDI), Cost Management, Analytics & Research
Scanning 101: Improving Patient Safety and Reducing Costs
By AHRMM
Management of inventory turns, reducing waste due to product expiration, and reducing annual audit shortfalls are all possible thanks to the UDI barcode. In this first webinar of a three-part series, leading field experts focus on the immense benefits of using scanning technology to document medical device usage.
Value Analysis, Clinical Resource Management (CRM), Cost Management, Strategic Sourcing, Suppliers
Malnutrition Care Management
By AHRMM
Advocate Health Care developed a provider-supplier partnership that reduced re-admission rates and improved quality of care inside and outside of the hospitals. This webinar discusses elements of the collaborative research, the clinical economic baseline and outcome, as well as how the quality improvement program components lead to better care process.
Value Analysis, Analytics & Research
Podcast: Aligning Patient Data to Help Decision Makers Improve Care
By AHRMM
For decisions related to patient care, administrators and physicians often need data from outside of their department.
Listen as Jill Cotchen discusses how data crosses over departments and is interpreted to address real-life scenarios, and the necessity to take into account different benchmarking and costing methodologies to accurately quantify cost and impact to your organization.
Logistics, Inventory Management
Perpetual vs. PAR Inventory - Podcast
By AHRMM
Stewart Layhe, Supply Chain Program Manager at Denver Health, compares benefits and downsides of perpetual and periodic automatic replenishment (PAR) system inventory methods.
Strategic Planning, Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement, Purchased Services, Strategic Sourcing, Suppliers
Shared Risk Contracting: Provider and Supplier Perspectives Podcast
By AHRMM
Michael Neely introduces the topic of risk sharing as it is becoming more popular in healthcare and how it can improve patient care while lowering costs. To learn more about risk sharing and how providers and suppliers can work together to generate financial, operational and clinical value, join AHRMM for a webinar on March 14 at 12:00 PM CST.
Leadership
Leading through Culture Change: Establishing New Values, Assumptions, and Norms Podcast
By AHRMM
In this short webcast, Chris Wiekert will take you through the steps he used to lead his department in a culture change from one with poor service levels, inefficient manual processes, and a general dissatisfaction towards the overall department, into a customer-focused, highly valued service to the organization.
Technology, Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement, Regulations and Regulatory Advocacy, Suppliers, Unique Device Identifier (UDI)
UDI: Value Beyond Compliance
By AHRMM
In this informational session, Karen Conway discusses her research with the FDA on value and the UDI. Mike Schiller joins the conversation by adding the actions AHRMM is taking with the Learning UDI Community to identify adoption practices and move beyond compliance.
Career/Professional Development
Podcast: A New Hospital Economic Index: Join on the Ground Level
By AHRMM
A summary of the current ISM® Report On Business, details surrounding the development of the new ISM® Hospital Report on Business – the hospital-specific report – why it is important, and how you can be involved.