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

By AHRMM

This book was written to enhance the strategic contributions of the healthcare supply chain in a way that is most meaningful to hospitals’ and health-systems’ value-based goals.

It is a useful resource for healthcare leaders, supply chain professionals in different stages of their careers, healthcare vendors, and students. Value-based reimbursement rewards providers who lower costs while improving outcomes, creating a better, more cost-effective healthcare system. Today’s providers must evaluate the clinical effectiveness of a product by examining the outcomes of the procedures in which it was used. The decision to use a costlier but more clinically effective product might result in better care and a greater financial return.

This approach is called operating at the intersection of cost, quality, and outcomes—also known as CQO.

Supply chain executives operate at the center of purchasing decisions and work across disciplines. They affect—though sometimes indirectly—nearly every step of patient care delivery. This makes them particularly well suited to lead CQO initiatives. We know that the supply chain reduces costs.

Now supply chain professionals must become more clinically integrated and help improve patient outcomes by serving as champions of CQO.

 

Order Publication

Related Resources

Podcasts
A value analysis process to verify the achievement of the outcomes desired will result in making decisions based on the data, celebrating achieveme
Podcasts
In this three-part podcast, Howard Mann, Vice President, Supply Chain Management at Cardiovascular Care Group discusses the basics and relationship
On-Demand Educational Webinars
A panel of health care industry leaders shares their insights and experiences in creating a best-practice supply chain that supports the intersection…
On-Demand Educational Webinars
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…
Podcasts
In this three-part webcast, Howard Mann, Vice President, Supply Chain Management at Cardiovascular Care Group discusses the basics and relationship
On-Demand Educational Webinars
Learn how to drive organizational and cultural improvements by utilizing cost, quality, and outcome data in the decision making process. This webinar…