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Change Management, Cost Management, Materials Management Information System (MMIS), Leveraging Technology
Optimizing Your Technology for Revenue Cycle Success: Integrating New Technology – Part 2
In this 3-part series, learn how the revenue cycle can impact your supply chain when embarking on a new software implementation or integration.
Change Management, Clinical Resource Management (CRM), Physician Preference Items (PPI), Strategic Sourcing, Strategic Planning
Reduce Costs with Rep-less Model Strategic Purchasing
Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality, and quite a bit of uncontrolled variation exists in the medical device industry today. Using dis-intermediation, or a rep-less model, for medical device purchases helps reduce this variation. In this webinar, we review the current industry model for medical device sales and the opportunity for innovation in this space.
Analytics & Research, Data Standards, Reimbursement, Sustainability
The Value Cycle
In order to compare baseline costs to savings and determine areas of compliance risk, supply chain professionals need to work closely with their revenue cycle colleagues maintaining the chargemaster. This webinar explores how supply data elements in your item master and chargemaster play a role in negotiating payments, in disbursing across the continuum of care, and in assessing variations in clinical practice.
Cost Management, Reimbursement, Physician Preference Items (PPI), Value Analysis
Value Based Purchasing and Value Analysis 101 – Part 1
In this three-part webcast, Howard Mann, Vice President, Supply Chain Management at Cardiovascular Care Group discusses the basics and relationship of Value Analysis and Value Based Purchasing to achieve high Cost, Quality and Outcomes success. Part one explains Value Based Purchasing and its effects on hospital reimbursement.
Presented by: Howard Mann, Vice President, Supply Chain Management, Cardiovascular Care Group
Change Management, Cost Management, Strategic Sourcing, Strategic Planning
WHY, WHAT, and HOW of Strategic Planning
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Analytics & Research, Data Standards, Strategic Planning
Closing the Gap: What Can Health Care Learn from Retail
Health care costs continue to rise at an alarming rate, growing well ahead of inflation. In this webinar, we compare and contrast the education and training practices for supply chain professionals in each sector, the use of Collaborative Planning Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR), and the use of actual usage data at the last leg of the supply chain as a means to enhance automated inventory control strategies.
Developing a Clinically Integrated Supply Chain
Dr. Michael Schlosser discusses the reasons for, and resources needed to create a clinically integrated supply chain that utilizes evidence-based data to make procurement decisions that can improve patient outcomes.
Products and Services Contracting, Suppliers, Strategic Planning
GPO or Local/Self Contracting Series: Expectations of GPO Partners and Summary – Part 4
Panelists in Part 4 of the GPO or Local/Self Contracting webcast series focus on what providers should expect from their GPO partners. In a Part 5 bonus section, included only in the podcast version, we listen to the panelists answer questions of those who attended this session during the AHRMM16 Annual Conference.
Procurement, Change Management, Clinical Resource Management (CRM), Inventory Management, Lean/Six Sigma
How Inventory Redesign Strengthens the Clinically Integrated Supply Chain
Developing a clinically integrated supply chain can lead to organizational savings, a decrease in ordering of supplies outside of the supply chain, and can help return nurses and other clinical professionals back to their primary focus of patient care. This webinar explores what is needed for the successful development and implementation of a clinically integrated team that performs value analysis across a variety of facilities under one system.
Change Management, Cost Management, Purchased Services, Suppliers, Support Services
Knowing When to Outsource: Making Purchased Services Work for You
Outsourcing of hospital functions is a common and growing practice in the U.S. and comprises on average 25% of total non-labor spend in hospitals. Many hospitals are finding that the outsourcing of some functions is a double-edged sword. This webinar will help you determine how to make decisions about which services to keep in house and which to outsource in the post-reform era of higher quality and cost savings.