AHRMM

Change Management, Career/Professional Development

Creating a Culture of Teamwork: Managing Up for Highly Reliable Team Players

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".

Analytics & Research, Distribution, Financial Management, Strategic Planning

Managing Supply Chain in Health Care Reform

This webinar discusses the health care supply chain, its strengths and weaknesses. It reviews best practices around the industry, including what Intermountain Healthcare has done with building its own logistics/distribution functionality. It will also present the implications of the future of the industry with the changing horizon that comes with the Affordable Care Act, including preparing to serve non-acute operations.

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.