AHRMM

Clinical Integration

6 Ways to Excel at Building Clinical Relationships

Much of health care supply chain is now working to connect with clinicians to reduce of unnecessary variations and waste to achieve CQO and the Triple Aim. When working to build a relationship with clinicians, your success factor will improve when you come to the conversation with an understanding of their personalities and needs. Below are six areas to consider before you engage them.

Clinical Integration

4 Things Physician Champions Can do to Ensure Clinical Integration Success

Clinical integration starts with physician champions. Supply chain executives can’t be experts in all areas, and successful clinical discussions tend to occur when physician leaders are the ones initiating those meetings with their physician peers. The physician leader should be able to challenge their colleagues to answer the question, “how does this really benefit the patient?” and “does it benefit beyond just improving a process? In addition, as part of the contract negotiations team, a physician can push back on the supplier to ask clinical questions about the product or device.

Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement

The Healthcare Supply Chain: Best Practices for Operating at the Intersection of Cost, Quality, and Outcomes

Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement

AHRMM19 CQO Summit White Paper | CQO: The Power of Clinical Integration

AHRMM19 CQO Summit White Paper entitled CQO: The Power of Clinical Integration.

Products and Services Contracting, Purchased Services, Strategic Sourcing, Strategic Planning

Contract Negotiations & Implementation Strategies for Purchased Services within a Single Facility or IDN's

Contracting strategies, negotiation, and centralized contract management processes can generate significant savings in one of the largest areas of spend. A team of Hospital Executives shares the lessons learned, implementation experiences, and savings they brought their facilities, focusing on the non-traditional areas of spend.

Benchmarking, Strategic Planning

Introduction to Benchmarking

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.

Change Management, Clinical Resource Management (CRM), Physician Preference Items (PPI), Strategic Sourcing, Strategic Planning

Reduce Costs with Rep-less Model Strategic Purchasing

Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality, and quite a bit of uncontrolled variation exists in the medical device industry today. Using dis-intermediation, or a rep-less model, for medical device purchases helps reduce this variation. In this webinar, we review the current industry model for medical device sales and the opportunity for innovation in this space.

Financial Management, Clinical Resource Management (CRM), Cost Management, Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement, Inventory Management, Physician Preference Items (PPI)

The Impact of Supply Chain Processes on O.R. Time, Efficiency, & Overall Cost

Resiliency in the operating room is imperative in today’s health care climate. A well-functioning OR has the potential to increase the number of patients served and further enhance its contribution to the hospital's bottom line. This presentation discusses how supply chain process improvements help achieve CQO in the OR.

Technology, Analytics & Research, Data Standards, Materials Management Information System (MMIS), Regulations and Regulatory Advocacy, Unique Device Identifier (UDI)

UDI and Providers: What You Need to Do

Get the basics on what healthcare supply chain and manufacturers, together with clinical and IT departments, must do to implement the Unique Device Identifier and adverse event reporting, and the subsequent effects that will trickle-down to individual patients and the global health population.

Clinical Resource Management (CRM), Value Analysis, Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement

Value Analysis 201: Organizing Data to Analyze Product and Equipment Clinical Outcomes

A value analysis process to verify the achievement of the outcomes desired will result in making decisions based on the data, celebrating achievement of outcomes, and identify the need for further review when outcomes are not achieved.