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Change Management, Career/Professional Development
Take Your Talk From Boring to SOARING
Take a close look at what can be done to improve speeches made in front of a large audience. In this webinar, we explain the construction of a talk, what information will your audience be most receptive to, and how should you get it across.
Analytics & Research, Regulations and Regulatory Advocacy, Reimbursement, Unique Device Identifier (UDI), Leadership
The UDI Rule: Are You Ready?
Hospitals need a tool to leverage the use of UDI within their health care organizations to empower the Cost, Quality, Outcomes Movement. This webinar explains the many benefits the UDI system can bring both to a hospital’s bottom line and to patients. With proper tools implemented by healthcare providers, UDI will help to lower cost and increase quality, thereby improving patient outcomes.
Analytics & Research, Benchmarking, Performance Metrics
Benchmarking Metrics That Make Sense
Every organization has a variety of internal and external benchmarks at their disposal. Metrics need to be practical for each individual provider, and the supply chain must choose its measurements and comparisons carefully. In this webinar, we discuss meaningful benchmarking and explore several scenarios, useful metrics, and variation considerations to help make appropriate decisions that can improve supply chain performance.
Career/Professional Development
CMRP: What I’ve Gained. What You Can Gain – Part 3
AHRMM members discuss why they chose to earn their Certified Materials Resource Professional (CMRP) Certification and the rewards they have gained personally and professionally.
Data Standards, Disaster/Outbreak Preparedness, Materials Management Information System (MMIS), Leveraging Technology, Technology
Cyber Security: What You Need to Know
Cybersecurity vulnerabilities and intrusions pose risks for every hospital and its reputation. Become aware of what you can do to prevent cyber security in your facility.
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
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.
Disaster/Outbreak Preparedness, Financial Management, Strategic Sourcing, Suppliers, Strategic Planning
Product Disruptions Are Impacting My Business Continuity
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.
Analytics & Research, Data Standards, Reimbursement
The Value Cycle
In order to compare baseline costs to savings and determine areas of compliance risk, supply chain professionals need to work closely with their revenue cycle colleagues maintaining the chargemaster. This webinar explores how supply data elements in your item master and chargemaster play a role in negotiating payments, in disbursing across the continuum of care, and in assessing variations in clinical practice.
Suppliers, Cost Management, Procurement
Webcast: What Hospitals Use as a Basis for Decision Making
Brent Petty, executive industry consultant, Healthcare Lexmark International, discusses what forces are currently affecting health care and the platform hospitals use for decision-making criteria.
Best Practices for Operating at the Intersection of Cost, Quality and Outcomes
In this four part webinar series, AHRMM explores how supply chain leaders can transform CQO from a concept into a strategy. Each 30 minute webinar will dive into a different best practice including capturing and applying alternative data sets, establishing a clinically integrated supply chain, and creating an outcomes-based contracting strategy.