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Discover where compliance risks arise, practical strategies to improve documentation and accessibility and how digital tools are simplifying audits.

The annual CQO Summit brings together health care supply chain leaders in a collaborative forum to discuss top-of-mind issues facing the health care field. The theme of this year’s Summit was managing resources in the “new normal.” It featured thought-provoking presentations on workforce optimization, supply chain analytics, and the health care financial landscape.

A detailed example of a new Master of Health Administration (MHA) program with a medical logistics concentration.

Learn how Baptist Health forged its traditional AP cost center into a cost savings driver.

Supply chain attributes inform critical supply availability and alignment with internal and external needs, integral to meeting pressures to deliver safe care.

In this case study, learn how Kaleida Health drove system-wide clinical-supply integration using three key strategies to build a clinically integrated supply chain.

Explore opportunities for improving the procure-to-pay cycle to generate better outcomes for both health care organizations and their supplier partners.

Healthcare expenses continue to rise and yet hospitals are realizing consistently shrinking margins. Healthcare supply costs are typically the second largest expense to a hospital and must be managed in a manner that ensures providers have access to quality products but also with an emphasis on cost awareness and expense reduction strategies. Healthcare supply chains must leverage their data in order to make better business decisions to reduce costs and increase operational efficiencies through the use of business analytics.

Tremendous value can be achieved by investing Supply Chain Management (SCM) resources into shared services where optimizing the supply chain is not normally a top priority. This paper will discuss an example where SCM partnered with the Nutrition and Food Services (NFS) department within a medical center.

Explore your organization’s clinical integration maturity and leverage leadership involvement to make data-driven decisions.

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

In an effort to capture broader insights on UDI adoption from across the health care field, AHRMM, with participation by the FDA, held LUC Data Quality Workshops during four conferences in 2017. During these workshops, conference attendees had the opportunity to voice their opinions on the state of UDI data quality, hurdles to UDI adoption and what recommended practices are necessary for providers and suppliers to effectively capture the UDI and use it in meaningful ways.