Articles
Benchmarking, Cost Management, Purchased Services, Strategic Sourcing
Seven Pitfalls of Purchased Services
By AHRMM
Purchased services typically represents over 20 percent of a healthcare system’s total annual expenditures. During this webinar, we discuss best practices to understand actionable data, identify smaller spend categories for your staff to tackle, and decide when it is safe to go at it alone versus when to recruit additional resources.
Change Management, Career/Professional Development
Creating a Culture of Teamwork: Managing Up for Highly Reliable Team Players
By AHRMM
The engagement and alignment of employees accelerates achievement of quality, safety, service and operational goals. These tasks are easily stated but challenging to execute. Discover what leaders must do to create true employee collaboration through "managing up".
Value Analysis, Change Management, Cost Management, Materials Management Information System (MMIS), Physician Preference Items (PPI), Strategic Sourcing, Analytics & Research
From Invisibility to Transparency: Cultivating OR Cost Awareness
By AHRMM
The perioperative services administration at Massachusetts General created a rigorous and rapid approach to raising the level of cost awareness among its nursing, surgical technician, and surgical staff. In this webinar, the leadership team shares how they used data capture to assess supply use and how they changed the culture in their hospital to be more cost aware.
Shipping and Receiving, Suppliers, Logistics
Ordering, Shipping, and Materials Management: A Process Improvement Partnership Case Study
By AHRMM
Learn about a comprehensive assessment and process improvement exercise on the Total Cost of Ownership model by UPMC and Cook Medical. Specific areas of focus include ordering, shipping, and materials management. In this webinar, we go into each of these areas in depth and demonstrate the impact that this project has had on both organizations.
Products and Services Contracting, Cost Management, Purchased Services, Strategic Sourcing, Suppliers, Procurement
The Art of Purchased Services Contracting
By AHRMM
Learn about the strategies that have been successful at Dignity Health in developing a purchased services product line. In this webinar we explain how to develop a purchased services contracting product line, discuss the unique challenges in this area, and show you how to estimate the potential opportunity.
Suppliers, Cost Management, Procurement
Webcast: What Hospitals Use as a Basis for Decision Making
Brent Petty, executive industry consultant, Healthcare Lexmark International, discusses what forces are currently affecting health care and the platform hospitals use for decision-making criteria.
Leadership
An Executive Decision: Understanding What Is Required to Reach the C-Suite
By AHRMM
AHRMM created this book for engaged and motivated supply chain leaders in the making. Within is information on where to begin and what to do while you're on the path to achieving your goal, how to take advantage of changes in the industry, as well as the skills you'll need to develop along the way. The purpose of this book is to help make the seemingly long journey to the C-Suite much less intimidating and ambiguous. And who better to give advice on earning an executive position than those who've already made the journey?
Change Management, Suppliers, Strategic Planning
Building Trust and Collaboration Between Providers and Suppliers
By AHRMM
In this session, Dennis Black and Dennis Orthman share their experiences and best practices to improve and expand the provider-supplier relationship.
Change Management, Cost Management, Financial Management, Strategic Planning
Creating an Agile Supply Chain Through HRO Inventory Management
NYU Langone Health adopted High Reliability Organization (HRO) principles and developed a transformational approach in order to support clinical needs and drive quality patient outcomes. In this webinar, supply chain leaders discuss NYU Langone's supply chain transformation. Presenters cover HRO education and concept training, action-oriented committees and project specific development, as well as planning and implementation.
Analytics & Research, Cost Management, Financial Management, Reimbursement, Suppliers, Unique Device Identifier (UDI), Leveraging Technology
Help! I Can’t Find My OR Supplies!
By AHRMM
Tracking surgical supplies is a challenge. Average returns for picked supplies is low, O.R. in-and-out traffic to retrieve items is high, and significant staff hours are spent checking consumption, restocking, and locating supplies. UTMC and DeRoyal have developed a "smart" radio frequency identification trash bin that tracks inventory used during a case, charges for that inventory, and shows where items are located in the room in real time.