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Benchmarking, Change Management, Strategic Planning
Supply Chain Evaluation Tool
By AHRMM
This AHRMM tool has two practical supply chain evaluation templates featured in the Customer Service in Health Care Supply Chain: Certificate Course, released in January 2019.
About the Tool:
The tool has two sample evaluation templates to gather information on the performance of the supply chain department in a hospital or health system. The first evaluation template, Supply Chain Service Survey, should be completed by departments working with the supply chain in a hospital or health system.
Unique Device Identifier (UDI), Medical Device Technology, Learning UDI Community
Multiple Device Identifier Work Group Report
By AHRMM
This downloadable report reviews the recommended practices related to the allocation of multiple unique device indicators (UDI-DI).
Strategic Sourcing, Sustainability, Leadership
The Science Behind Sustainable Products
By AHRMM
Annie Weisbrod, principal scientist at Procter and Gamble, discusses the science behind sustainable hygiene products in this free AHRMM webcast.
Change Management, Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement, Strategic Sourcing, Suppliers, Leadership
The Secrets of Successful Collaboration: Part 1
By AHRMM
AHRMM presents a four-part series on successful collaboration with suppliers. In part one, Mike Schiller, director of supply chain at AHRMM, discusses AHRMM’s CQO Movement and IHI’s Triple Aim and how they are affecting the health care supply chain today. As primary care shifts its focus to prevention, suppliers need to partner with providers to provide best practices and tools for prevention and health promotion.
The Secrets of Successful Collaboration series
Change Management, Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement, Strategic Sourcing, Suppliers, Leadership
The Secrets of Successful Collaboration: Part 2
By AHRMM
In part two of a four-part series on successful collaboration with suppliers, Mike Schiller, former director of supply chain at AHRMM, discusses relationship building, utilizing trust and transparency.
The Secrets of Successful Collaboration series
Analytics & Research, Support Services
Measure your Supply Chain Success with Survey Support Cards
By AHRMM
Stewart Layhe, director of supply chain, Denver Health, shares his method for measuring supply chain department success with quarterly support card surveys used to make improvements.
Change Management, Clinical Resource Management (CRM), Cost Management, Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement, Physician Preference Items (PPI), Leadership
AHRMM18 CQO Summit White Paper
By AHRMM
2018 AHRMM CQO Summit:
Each year at the annual AHRMM Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Summit, participants throughout the health care field come together to share their knowledge, leading practices and ideas on supply chain’s role in delivering higher quality care at a more affordable cost. The CQO Summit discussions, in turn, inform the next year’s CQO report, which guides the development of the agenda for that year’s Summit.
Disaster/Outbreak Preparedness, Strategic Sourcing, Strategic Planning
Ready for the next flu outbreak?
By AHRMM
It doesn’t take a deadly pandemic like Ebola to put your supply chain—and your staff and patients--at risk. Flu outbreaks cause sudden shortages of critical supplies and happen frequently. Jason Burnham, associate director, O&M Halyard Health, shares three steps you need to know in order to be prepared for the next outbreak.
Disaster/Outbreak Preparedness, Strategic Planning
Disaster/Emergency Preparation Checklists and Resources for Health Care Supply Chain
By AHRMM
During times of disaster, hospitals play an integral role as the community safety net, providing essential medical care that must be available often times within a moment’s notice. Strategic planning and ongoing training are necessary to identifying, dispatching and mobilizing critical material and human resources. The health care supply chain professional is a vital component of any hospital emergency response team and the hospital incident command center.
Disaster/Outbreak Preparedness, Strategic Planning
Disaster Preparedness Implications to Supply Chain and the Continuum of Care
By AHRMM
This AHRMM tool covers how health care supply chain professionals should prepare for disasters, with the input from various disciplines. The tool includes supply consumption adjustment calculations and several preparedness plans such as The Joint Commission Emergency Operations Plan ®, the Hospital Incident Commend System (HICS) and the 10 Elements for a Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP).