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Preparing for disasters is a much more difficult task than preparing for the day-to-day emergencies that a health care facility or system faces. Disaster preparation goes beyond the health care facility walls. It involves coordination with community partners and federal and state responders. Disaster preparation calls for everyone to work together for a common goal: to meet the needs of the community in a time of extreme devastation. This manual provides a framework for preparing for such a coordinated and collaborative response to a disaster.

In part one, we explore the reasons why the FDA created the (UOU) Unit of Use.

In the third part of the the FDA Unique Device Identification (UDI) “Unit of Use” (UOU) webcast series, we cover several potential use cases for the FDA UDI UOU identifier.

In part two of the FDA Unique Device Identification (UDI) Unit of Use (UOU) webcast series, we cover the FDA definition of the term, Unit of Use.

Millennials will continue to remain significant to the growth of healthcare in years to come. In order to be successful at attracting millennials as patients, a patient-centered approach is required. By Sue MacInnes Download Article

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From a supply chain perspective, the use of UDIs will help with the visibility of supplies throughout the continuum of care. By Dennis Mullins, MBA, CMRP Download Article

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WORK GROUP TITLE: UDI Capture Work Group CASE STUDY PARTICIPANTS: Wendy Watson, OR Supply Chain Manager at University Health Network CASE STUDY ORGANIZATION: University Health Network (UHN) serves the residents of Toronto, Ontario, Canada’s largest city, and the surrounding communities. UHN is comprised of 10 program areas spread across four hospitals and eight sites. It has $2B in revenues, 1,200 patient beds and its surgeons perform 24,000 surgical procedures each year.

WORK GROUP TITLE: UDI Capture Work Group CASE STUDY PARTICIPANTS: Becky Ashin, Vice President, Advanced Orthopaedic Center, University of Tennessee Medical Center Beth Kaylor, RN Clinical Director, Innovation, DeRoyal Industries CASE STUDY ORGANIZATION:

WORK GROUP TITLE: UDI Capture Work Group CASE STUDY PARTICIPANTS: Jim Booker, Manager of Master Data Management, Supply Chain, Stanford Health Care CASE STUDY ORGANIZATION:

A UDI Capture Work Group Case Study at the Beaver Dam Community Hospitals, Inc.

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This case study provides a review of Grady Health System’s transformation from traditional Value Analysis Joint Product Review Team structure to Value Based Selection Committees which promote shared governance including system wide physicians and executives focusing on full integration of cost, quality, outcomes analysis to ensure selection of products offering the greatest overall value for cost reduction and improvement of outcomes.

The safe use of health technology—from infusion pumps to complex imaging systems—requires that healthcare facilities recognize the possibility of danger or difficulty with those technologies and that they take steps to minimize the likelihood of adverse events. Download Article

The shift to bundled payments in health care continues to push the supply chain to a more central position in the overall operations and capabilities of progressive health systems.