**Executive Track: Sessions geared to a more strategic perspective of Supply Chain Aspects and their Integration with Enterprise wide initiatives.
Sponsored by HealthTrust Purchasing Group
Clinical Resource Management
As most healthcare organizations struggling through the economic downturn, Beaumont Hospitals needed to reduce supply chain costs. Learn how William Beaumont Hospitals implemented a team approach with their clinicians and medical staff to collaboratively address opportunities to improve product evaluation and selection decisions, to expedite conversion implementation timeframes and enable substantial cost-savings across their three hospital campuses.
Joan Munchiando , Director of Specialty Programs, Beaumont Hospitals, Royal Oak, MI
Bill Martin, Vice President, The Broadlane Group, Dallas, TX
Distribution
This presentation will introduce the concept of freight management, but more importantly provide best practices, ideas on how to evaluate a freight management company, and how to maximize the value to drive down your supply chain costs. Attendees will learn the next steps required to launch a successful freight management program.
Eric McGlade , Vice President of Professional Services, HLS MedFreight, Westerville, OH
Stuart Wooster , Manager of Corporate Purchasing, Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee, WI
Finance
This session will review the process undertaken by a hospital IDN to bring it document management and production services from an outsourced vendor to an in house department. This project resulted in savings for the organization of $400,000 in the first year. Strategies for the creation of a business plan, technology considerations and key operational factors will be demonstrated and discussed. Evaluation of your operation for this model, as well as its relationship to electronic medical records and clinical systems will be an important component of this session.
William Stitt , Corporate Director, Materials Management, University Community Health, Tampa, FL
Professional Development
What is driving the need for quality and transparency? With the focus on pay-for-performance, facilities can achieve higher reimbursement for measurable higher quality care. CMS has announced it will increase payment based on quality from 2% to 20% over the next several years. Most facilities will focus on process improvement, coding and the supply chain to vie for additional reimbursement. Other factors facilitating the need for quality improvements include increased demand for supply standardization--hospital and MD demands and increased pressure to control inventory--less space/less expense.
Armed with data and actionable information, effective leaders can create a marked impact on the overall efficiency of their operations. This session will provide a basic overview of the need for transparency and teamwork in order to achieve successful patient outcomes. Materials managers will learn the importance of balancing product costs while maintaining or improving quality. Participants will hear a Chief Medical Officer of a 225 bed community hospital in Ohio share the process used and the results of creating transparency in the quality six-sigma program.
Mary Beth Lang , Senior Vice President, Business Intelligence and President, Diagnostix, Amerinet, Warrendale, PA
Jerome J. Roche, Jr., MD, Chief Medical Officer, Fairfield Medical Center, Lancaster, OH
Purchasing
Is your organization struggling with the credentialing process? Difficulty cutting through the requirements? Desiring to perform the function in-house but not sure how to make it happen? Do you have an integrated organization that can carry processes across affiliate lines? If so, please join us for a step by step walk through the process developed in-house by a multi-disciplinary team across a 4 hospital system. Please note that this is a credentialing process without a lot of bells and whistles, it is not a representative tracking mechanism and does not create a product that will be marketed against the many vendor products available today. It does, however, meet the Joint Commission standard and is consistent with the credentialing in place for other disciplines.
Jeff Wagner , Vice President, MidMichigan Health, Midland, MI
Zack Luick , Purchasing Manager, MidMichigan Health, Midland, MI
Strategic Planning
Attend this interactive session for knowledge about how the Malcolm Baldrige Award Criteria for Performance Excellence provide a roadmap to develop, align, and sustain your strategic planning initiatives. Learn how you can use the Malcolm Baldrige Award Criteria to develop, deploy, then evaluate and improve your approach, deployment and integration of these initiatives. Learn the importance of organizational and personal learning, and how these contribute to a competitive advantage and sustainability. Understand why your approach to strategic planning must be systematic and have regular evaluation and improvement cycles to ensure you remain current with continually changing business needs.
Hear success stories and lessons learned, including those from healthcare, of how the Malcolm Baldrige Award Criteria led to dramatic bottom-line performance improvements. Leave with a self-analysis tool to aid you in assessing how your strategic planning process compares with the Baldrige Criteria requirements.
Victoria Currie Taylor , Executive Director, Georgia Oglethorpe Award Process, Inc., Alpharetta, GA
Karen Young , President and CEO, Strategic Solutions and Associates, LLC, Lithonia, GA
Technology Solutions
Hospitals and healthcare systems recognize the value of adopting and using industry standards for location and product identification, and many are starting to make plans now to try to meet sunrise dates for the use of GLNs and GTINs (December 2010 and December 2012, respectively.) But for BJC HealthCare, using standards is a reality, not a vision. Working with industry groups, its suppliers and technology partners, BJC had made the necessary changes to enable it to transact with all of its electronic trading partners using GLNS and is ready to use GTINs for ordering products with any supplier that is ready, all without a sophisticated ERP system. Find out how you can take similar steps in your organization.
Tom Stenger, Jr. , Manager, MMIS & Analysis, BJC HealthCare, St. Louis, MO
