AHRMM

Analytics & Research, Cost Management, Financial Management, Reimbursement, Suppliers, Unique Device Identifier (UDI), Leveraging Technology

Help! I Can’t Find My OR Supplies!

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.

Procure to Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Suppliers, Strategic Planning, Community Connections, Population/Community Health

Supply Chain’s Role in Social Responsibility, Community Health, and Sustainability

Social responsibility is an emerging area of importance for all health care supply chain professionals to understand and participate in. This webinar examines the evolving needs of communities, the historic role of hospitals as a community enterprise, and why hospitals and health systems are viewed by the public as an anchor of local life.

Strategic Planning, Cost Management, Physician Preference Items (PPI), Reimbursement, Strategic Sourcing

Improve Cost Reduction: A Multidisciplinary and Big Picture Approach

Health care organizations continue to look for new ways to reduce costs. Ultimately, data, clinical integration, and engaging multi-disciplinary stakeholders may be the major keys to success. In this webinar, we describe how a large health system sought to standardize endomechanical, suture, trocars, and surgical energy across multiple categories.

Technology, Asset Management, Capital Equipment, Disaster/Outbreak Preparedness, Suppliers

Cybersecurity in the Age of Connected Medical Devices

Cybersecurity impacts all industry verticals including health care. Health care organizations need to address security in standard technology and medical devices. In this webinar, we discuss eight key practices straight from the Mayo Clinic’s cybersecurity strategy.

Support Services, Central Sterile, Purchased Services, Reprocessing Medical Devices

Ethylene Oxide Device Sterilization and the Alternatives

In light of the closure of some facilities that use gas ethylene oxide (EtO) to sterilize medical devices prior to their distribution and use, the FDA is looking at the future availability of medical devices and the possibility of medical device shortages. This webinar highlights potential alternatives to EtO, their advantages and disadvantages, and how to determine what kind of sterilization is best for your organization.

Value Analysis, Strategic Sourcing, Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement

How Value Analysis Committees’ Lines of Questioning Can Directly Affect Value Equation Outputs

John Kelty from W.L. Gore & Associates discusses how value analysis committees can determine a medical devices value when evaluating new products. 

Technology, Cost Management, Analytics & Research, Data Standards, Inventory Management, Strategic Sourcing

Empowering Supply Chain Through Streamlined Technology

Today, health systems are being forced to leverage disparate data from internal and external sources to drive business intelligence solutions. In this webinar, we review some of the challenges of disparate technology systems and how data can be better synchronized to drive meaningful understandings that fuel decisions.

Regulations and Regulatory Advocacy, AHRMM

EtO Quality Advisory

EtO Quality Advisory

Overview:

The AHA and AHRMM have released a Quality Advisory on ethylene oxide sterilization of medical devices. The AHA and AHRMM will continue to update members on this issue.  

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Clinical Integration, Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement

2019 AHRMM CQO Report

2019 AHRMM CQO Report: The Power of Clinical Integration 

Overview: 

The CQO Task Force identified six health care organizations with case studies demonstrating the evolution of CQO and the expanding role of supply chain in meeting the needs of the ever-changing health care environment. These stories are contained within this report.

Career/Professional Development, Change Management

Leadership Dynamics in Health Care Supply Chain

Sustainable leadership is a hot topic being discussed throughout the health care supply chain field, and with good cause. In this webinar, hear an engaging conversation with emerging, retiring, and change leaders and their perspectives on the leadership skills needed for the current and future workforce.