Articles
Analytics & Research, Data Standards, Materials Management Information System (MMIS), Regulations and Regulatory Advocacy, Unique Device Identifier (UDI), Leveraging Technology, Technology
The Meaningful Use 3 Rule
By AHRMM
A short introduction to the CMS Meaningful Use 3 Rule and how implementing UDI within the healthcare setting and moving toward the full GS1 will reduce costs and improve inventory management while providing accurate data reporting and complete patient EHR information. Ultimately, these changes will lead to knowledge-based decision making and improved quality of patient care.
Cost Management, Reimbursement, Physician Preference Items (PPI), Value Analysis, Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement
Value Based Purchasing and Value Analysis Series Part 1: What is Value Based Purchasing?
By AHRMM
In this three-part podcast, 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 VBP and its effects on hospital reimbursement.
Products and Services Contracting, Purchased Services, Strategic Sourcing, Strategic Planning
Contract Negotiations & Implementation Strategies for Purchased Services within a Single Facility or IDN's
By AHRMM
Contracting strategies, negotiation, and centralized contract management processes can generate significant savings in one of the largest areas of spend. A team of Hospital Executives shares the lessons learned, implementation experiences, and savings they brought their facilities, focusing on the non-traditional areas of spend.
Clinical Integration, Cost Management
Integrating Physician Leadership in Supply Chain Management
By AHRMM
Integrating Physician Leadership in Supply Chain Management
Change Management, Financial Management, Strategic Sourcing, Sustainability, Support Services
Revenue Cycle Basics: Methodologies – Part 3
By AHRMM
Part 3: Methodologies
This series of short education sessions documents various aspects of the Revenue Cycle and how it impacts Supply Chain. The series details how disconnects between the charge master and item master can negatively affect charge services and revenue capture.
Techniques on how to support and maintain best practices and revenue optimization are outlined through the successful demonstration of standardization and synchronization in supply chain and revenue cycle practices.
Tubing Misconnections: A Preventable Error and Avoidable Fatality– Part 1
By AHRMM
Cost Management, Physician Preference Items (PPI), Reimbursement, Value Analysis, Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement
Value Based Purchasing and Value Analysis Series Part 2: What is Value Analysis
By AHRMM
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 two reviews the importance of Value Analysis and supply chain involvement.
Best Practices for Operating at the Intersection of Cost, Quality and Outcomes
By AHRMM
In this four part webinar series, AHRMM explores how supply chain leaders can transform CQO from a concept into a strategy. Each 30 minute webinar will dive into a different best practice including capturing and applying alternative data sets, establishing a clinically integrated supply chain, and creating an outcomes-based contracting strategy.
Leadership, Analytics & Research, Clinical Resource Management (CRM), Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement, Physician Preference Items (PPI)
Leading Change: Aligning Clinicians and Physicians Using Evidenced Based Data
By AHRMM
Learn how to drive organizational and cultural improvements by utilizing cost, quality, and outcome data in the decision making process. This webinar explains how the use of trustworthy clinicians and industry partners in support role with physicians and decision makers leads to success.
Change Management, Financial Management, Strategic Sourcing, Sustainability, Support Services
Revenue Cycle Basics: Challenges with Charge Capture 101 – Part 4
By AHRMM
Part 4: Challenges with Charge Capture 101
This series of short education sessions documents various aspects of the Revenue Cycle and how it impacts Supply Chain. The series details how disconnects between the charge master and item master can negatively affect charge services and revenue capture.
Techniques on how to support and maintain best practices and revenue optimization are outlined through the successful demonstration of standardization and synchronization in supply chain and revenue cycle practices.