Knowledge Center

Managing contract pricing more effectively—from creation to renewal or expiration—can deliver real operational and financial benefits for healthcare organizations. Yet because of its complexity, contract price management may be one of the most underutilized tools for maximizing cost savings in healthcare. Disparate information technology (IT) systems that do not share information and lack of widespread adoption of industry data standards for product and organizational/location identification all contribute to this complexity.

Supply chain must play an integral role in the care delivery process through cross-departmental partnerships that support evidence-based value analysis. Michael Louviere, System VP of Supply Chain at OHS shares his insights on what he calls a 'new adventureattempting to support best practices by collecting clinical evidence and synthesizing it to ensure that clinical practice is based on integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available relevant external clinical evidence from systematic research.

A recap of the Executive Thought Leader Forum hosted by AHRMM on August 6, 2012, to discuss the transforming healthcare environment.

The AHRMM Cost, Quality, and Outcomes (CQO) Movement frames the critical role supply chain professionals play in driving high quality care, at a more affordable cost, to deliver greater value to patients.