Articles
Developing a Clinically Integrated Supply Chain
By AHRMM
Dr. Michael Schlosser discusses the reasons for, and resources needed to create a clinically integrated supply chain that utilizes evidence-based data to make procurement decisions that can improve patient outcomes.
Change Management, Data Standards, Procure to Pay, Regulations and Regulatory Advocacy, Unique Device Identifier (UDI), Leveraging Technology
GS1 Standards at a Hospital—A Roadmap for Implementation
By AHRMM
In order to become data-driven organizations, healthcare providers need to leverage data standards and information technology. In the past, lack of standards across healthcare has been a major roadblock. However, numerous governmental and industry initiatives pursuing the adoption and implementation of supply chain standards across health IT systems are giving providers the opportunity to do just that. Standards lay the foundation for supply chain operations to leverage information technology to help transform healthcare providers into data-driven organizations.
Data Standards, Inventory Management, Regulations and Regulatory Advocacy, Unique Device Identifier (UDI), Procurement
Medical Products of Human Origin, UDI and ICCBBA: Supply Chain’s Role Podcast
By AHRMM
AHRMM Podcast on how supply chain should be interdepartmentally conversing to determine the handling of human-origin medical products and their UDIs.
Career/Professional Development
Ten Lessons for Writing – Part 1
By AHRMM
Join Dave Kaczmarek as he reviews 10 lessons for writing, including sentence structure, commas, apostrophes, and capitalization.
Understanding Physicians: Five Things Supply Chain Needs to Know
By AHRMM
Now that the entire health care field is increasing its focus on value-based care, supply chain and physicians are working more closely together. Jarad Garshnick, AVP of Physician Advisors at HealthTrust discusses the top five areas that supply chain should consider when collaborating with physicians to reduce cost and clinical variations as they continue to improve outcomes.
Presented by: Jarad Garshnick, AVP of Physician Advisors, HealthTrust Purchasing Group
Cost Management, Physician Preference Items (PPI), Reimbursement, Value Analysis
Value Based Purchasing and Value Analysis 101 – Part 2
By AHRMM
In this three-part webcast and podcast series, Howard Mann, Vice President, Supply Chain Management at Cardiovascular Care Group discusses the basics of value analysis and value based purchasing to achieve high Cost, Quality, and Outcomes. In part two, review the importance of value analysis and supply chain's involvement.
Presented by: Howard Mann, Vice President, Supply Chain Management, Cardiovascular Care Group
Analytics & Research, Asset Management, Capital Equipment, Strategic Sourcing, Strategic Planning
Developing and Sustaining a Standardized Capital Replacement Plan Series
By AHRMM
Capital equipment replacement planning is an activity many organizations engage in year after year. In this two-part series, we will outline a process of evaluating current equipment utilizing specific data elements and identifying where that data can be obtained and discuss how to use data and planning results to prioritize and follow established guidelines to replace only the equipment that needs replacing.
Cost Management, Lean/Six Sigma, Suppliers, Logistics
Lean Six Sigma Process for Inventory Management
By AHRMM
At Hershey Penn State Medical Center, the supply chain and ED nursing team came together in a Kaizen process to reinvent the way supplies were being managed in the ED. As a result of their efforts, a new business process and system was implemented, which increased nursing satisfaction from 10% to 90%, reduced costs and stock-outs, and created a continual improvement process that supports the team’s ongoing needs.
Cost Management, Financial Management, Materials Management Information System (MMIS), Unique Device Identifier (UDI), Leveraging Technology
Optimizing Supply Chain using UHF-RFID Technology Webcast
By AHRMM
Lana Makhanik and Peter Fiorentino discuss discus why Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is breathing easier after they overhauled their inventory management system using Ultra high frequency (UHF) radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology. Peter explains why they chose RFID, the success and benefits they have achieved, and lessons learned.
Presenters: Peter Fiorentino, Materials Management Cardiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Lana Makhanik, COO, VUEMED, Inc.
Financial Management, Clinical Resource Management (CRM), Cost Management, Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement, Inventory Management, Physician Preference Items (PPI)
The Impact of Supply Chain Processes on O.R. Time, Efficiency, & Overall Cost
By AHRMM
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 patients served and further enhance its contribution to the hospital's bottom line. This presentation discusses how supply chain process improvements help achieve CQO in the OR.