Articles
Analytics & Research, Clinical Resource Management (CRM), Cost Management, Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement, Reimbursement, Strategic Planning
Linking Data Leads to Cost-Effective Supply Chain Decisions in Population Health Management
By AHRMM
Healthcare delivery systems in the U.S. have traditionally targeted health intervention strategies at individuals rather than populations. However, the transition to value-based care necessitates that healthcare providers develop population health management strategies to improve disease management. This article outlines the ways in which population health management can benefit both the healthcare system and the health of the communities it serves.
By: Michelle Kurta, Mary Beth Lang, Benjamin Collier, and Scott Mullins
Data Standards, Financial Management, Regulations and Regulatory Advocacy, Unique Device Identifier (UDI), Medical Device Technology
UDI and MU3: What Data Goes in the Item Master?
By AHRMM
Susan Morris, CMRP, FAHRMM, health care executive, Cerner Corporation, explains the different parts of the Unique Device Identifier (UDI) and which part should go into the Item Master.
This webcast walks through the three FDA-accredited issuing agencies that assign UDIs and explains what information is in the different barcodes and how to read them both electronically and by human sight.
Products and Services Contracting, Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement, Purchased Services, Strategic Sourcing, Suppliers, Strategic Planning
Introduction: Shared Risk Contracting: Provider and Supplier Perspectives
By AHRMM
Get introduced to risk sharing in health care and learn how providers and suppliers can work together to generate financial, operational and clinical value by watching this AHRMM Webcast featuring Michael Neely.
Analytics & Research, Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement, Value Analysis
Understanding CQO through Data Visualization
By AHRMM
Data visualization can help translate dashboards, benchmarking and metrics lines, and lines of supply chain data into actionable insight. Visualizing CQO with data allows the supply chain leader to make the complex simple, the abstract tangible.
Darcy Aafedt discusses how to understand your data and audience, write the story you need to tell and share how to best visualize that story.
Financial Management, Logistics
Perpetual vs. PAR Inventory
By AHRMM
Stewart Layhe, supply chain program manager at Denver Health, compares the benefits and downsides of perpetual and periodic automatic replenishment (PAR) system inventory methods.
AHRMM
Aligning Patient Data to Help Decision Makers Improve Care
By AHRMM
Jill Cotchen, Product Executive, Vizient Inc., discusses how data crosses over departments and is interpreted to address real-life scenarios.
Benchmarking, Cost Management, Purchased Services, Strategic Sourcing
Pitfalls of Purchased Services
By AHRMM
Discover tips that can separate a health system’s success or failure when creating a viable purchased services sourcing program in this short AHRMM webcast.
Data Standards, Regulations and Regulatory Advocacy, Unique Device Identifier (UDI), Strategic Planning
Eskenazi UDI Capture Case Study
By AHRMM
CASE STUDY PARTICIPANTS:
Lawrence Gossman, AVP, Supply Chain, Fran Sercer, MSN RN, Associate Director of Interventional Services, Anita Sears, Director of Supply Chain, Eskenazi Health
Data Standards, Regulations and Regulatory Advocacy, Unique Device Identifier (UDI), Strategic Planning
FMOLHS UDI Capture Case Study: Automation of Product Data Capture in the Electronic Health Record
By AHRMM
WORK GROUP TITLE:
UDI Capture Work Group
CASE STUDY PARTICIPANTS:
Sandi Michel, MPMP, ITIL, CLSSBB, Director of Supply Chain Systems and Quality, the Office of Data Standards & Interoperability for Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System (FMOLHS)
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