Articles
Leadership, Change Management
Basic Supply Chain Education for Nurses
By AHRMM
Colleen Cusick, director of materials management at Johns Hopkins Health System, discusses how she created a basic supply chain education program for nurses in her health system.
Change Management
Five Steps of a Supply Chain Marketing Plan Webcast
By AHRMM
John Barnes, supply chain director of systems and analytics at St. Luke’s Health System, discusses a five step marketing plan to drive supply chain change management.
Change Management
Supply Chain as a Strategic Resource in your Health Care Organization
By AHRMM
Join Ken Cyr, director of supply chain consulting at Intalere, as he discusses why the supply chain should be a strategic resource in an integrated and improved health system.
Unique Device Identifier (UDI)
UDI Adoption Reference List
By AHRMM
AHRMM has compiled a list of health care organizations utilizing the UDI or planning to implement UDI adoption within the next 12 months. Download the UDI Adoption Reference List and connect with other health care leaders to discuss the UDI adoption initiatives and obtain advice from colleagues who are further along the adoption curve.
Change Management, Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement, Strategic Sourcing, Suppliers, Leadership
The Secrets of Successful Collaboration: Part 3
By AHRMM
AHRMM presents a four-part series on successful collaboration with suppliers. In part three, Brent Petty, executive industry consultant at Lexmark International, discusses finding common ground between providers and suppliers and working towards the total cost of ownership.
The Secrets of Successful Collaboration series
Logistics
Practices for Effective Asset Disposition
By AHRMM
These webcast shares methodologies that can create secure, sustainable and cost-effective outcomes through disposing of your organization’s assets.
Presenter: Daniel Duersch, senior manager, program development at Intermountain Healthcare
Benchmarking, Change Management, Strategic Planning
Supply Chain Evaluation Tool
By AHRMM
This AHRMM tool has two practical supply chain evaluation templates featured in the Customer Service in Health Care Supply Chain: Certificate Course, released in January 2019.
About the Tool:
The tool has two sample evaluation templates to gather information on the performance of the supply chain department in a hospital or health system. The first evaluation template, Supply Chain Service Survey, should be completed by departments working with the supply chain in a hospital or health system.
Unique Device Identifier (UDI), Medical Device Technology, Learning UDI Community
Multiple Device Identifier Work Group Report
By AHRMM
This downloadable report reviews the recommended practices related to the allocation of multiple unique device indicators (UDI-DI).
Change Management, Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement, Strategic Sourcing, Suppliers, Leadership
The Secrets of Successful Collaboration: Part 1
By AHRMM
AHRMM presents a four-part series on successful collaboration with suppliers. In part one, Mike Schiller, director of supply chain at AHRMM, discusses AHRMM’s CQO Movement and IHI’s Triple Aim and how they are affecting the health care supply chain today. As primary care shifts its focus to prevention, suppliers need to partner with providers to provide best practices and tools for prevention and health promotion.
The Secrets of Successful Collaboration series
Change Management, Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement, Strategic Sourcing, Suppliers, Leadership
The Secrets of Successful Collaboration: Part 2
By AHRMM
In part two of a four-part series on successful collaboration with suppliers, Mike Schiller, former director of supply chain at AHRMM, discusses relationship building, utilizing trust and transparency.
The Secrets of Successful Collaboration series