AHRMM08 is organized into seven tracks to help make your conference experience as meaningful as possible. Whether you are looking to develop new skills, enhance your existing knowledge or simply want a career boost, AHRMM08 has been developed so you can create a customized schedule that fits your own educational needs.
Learning Lab sessions are presented at Basic, Intermediate, or Advanced levels. View the Learning Labs Agenda and the Detailed Program for further details.
Distribution
Sponsor: Medline Industries, Inc.
Learn how efficient inventory control and distribution systems are essential to supply chain management. Today, rapidly rising costs make it important for healthcare facilities to have a program that includes appropriate inventory reduction, supply utilization review, customer service programs, evaluation and reduction in waste, constant information systems improvements, and more.
Finance
Gain knowledge of finance and budgeting concepts as they relate to your overall organization. In most facilities, the board of trustees is the final decision maker on how the budget is to be spent. A good working knowledge of finance and operating budgets will give you a better understanding of your organization’s overall financial picture. This track focuses on how the supply chain can affect and impact the operating budget as well as daily spending decisions.
Technology Solutions
Keep up with the latest advancements in healthcare technology and stay at the top of the field. In today’s global market, information technology (IT) is crucial to every organization’s success. It has made purchasing, automation, improving efficiencies, and e-Commerce much easier and more important than ever before. This track focuses on how the field can and will benefit from the IT evolution.
Purchasing
Discover how the complete acquisition process of goods, equipment, and services required for the operation of healthcare facilities can be both timely and cost-effective. This track covers core principles of requisition, sourcing, negotiation, ordering, and more.
Strategic Planning
Plan with a strategic mindset and the future belongs to you. This track will help you better understand the basics of customer service, strategic planning, and quality management. Materials exist to satisfy and support their customers. Therefore, it is critical to understand your customer’s needs or quality service will not be provided.
Clinical Resource Management (CRM)
Focus on the clinical, financial, and materials strategies needed to meet the demands of quality patient care, changes in technology, and increased savings opportunities. With this knowledge, you will excel in day-to-day supply cost management and physician preference ordering. This track covers key areas of clinical resource management as it relates to the healthcare supply chain.
Professional Development
Acquire new skills specific to supply chain management and your overall career development. This track covers public speaking and presentation skills, leadership, time and stress management, and more.
