Podcasts

American Hospital Association podcasts for members and the health care field.

The AHRMM Power Up Podcast Series, a podcast dedicated to health care supply chain professionals. Hosted by Mike Schiller and Justin Poulin, this groundbreaking series explores the latest trends, strategic insights, and innovative solutions in the health care supply chain industry.
Tariq Kahn, Materials Manager, Peri-operative Services, Montefiore Medical Center, discusses his “ah ha” moment of “I need your help”. In these three short podcasts Tariq considers how educating staff about the importance of each key player’s role improves their understanding of the final goal and…
Matt Burns, Director eCommerce Solutions at Premier discusses the $200B explosion of health care supply chain e-commerce usage during the two years since the COVID-19 pandemic began and the variety of ways organizations are using it to increase revenue and improve transparency and operations…
Consider the historical path of the Unique Device Identifier (UDI) currently hovering at its real-time usage and the resulting in cost savings and patient safety improvements. Dick Perrin of AHRMM’s Learning UDI Community (LUC) discusses the atomization and use of the same UDI across the continuum…
Listen as Dennis Orthman of Access Strategy Partners explains how innovation is hindered by the barriers of competition and how to actively seek it.   This podcast is also available as a webcast.
Listen as Vicky Lyle, Vice President, Industry Association, Owens & Minor, discusses reducing recall communication difficulties through UDI use and standards development.   This podcast is also available as a webcast.      
Listen as Susan Morris, Director, Supply Chain, MedStar Montgomery Medical Center, emphasizes the benefits of a strong relationship between clinical staff and supply chain in a hospital or health system.This podcast is also available as a webcast here.
Hear how to measure your organization against 15 key supply chain indexes for actionable insights related to health care supply chain and change thinking.
Hear from Myla Maloney, Vice President, Strategy and Commercial Operations at Premier as she teaches the four value-based contracting methods suppliers can use with provider partners such as evidence-based care, product guarantees, risk share by product and risk share by alternative payment model…
In this podcast, Russell Royer, Administrative Director of the International Heart Institute, Loma Linda University and Lana Makhanik, COO/Co-Founder, VUEMED discuss the optimization of clinical supply chain, the alignment of inventory with clinical needs, and the prevention of unnecessary spending…