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Pharmacy, Suppliers, Logistics
IV Strategies for Disruptions - How to Guide
By AHRMM
How-to guide to managing IV disruptions.
Change Management, Clinical Resource Management (CRM), Cost Management, Legislation and Legislative Advocacy, Regulations and Regulatory Advocacy, Reimbursement, Sustainability, Procurement
CMS Releases Final Rules for CY 2011 Hospital Outpatient/ASC Payment System, Physician Fee Schedule and Home Health Payment System
An overview of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' three final rules for calendar year 2011 the outpatient prospective payment system and ambulatory surgical center rule, the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule rule and the Home Health PPS rule.
Data Standards, Financial Management, Materials Management Information System (MMIS), Regulations and Regulatory Advocacy, Medical Device Technology
Guidance on Humidity Levels in the Operating Room
By AHRMM
New Guidance on Humidity Levels in the Operating Room
Products and Services Contracting, Cost Management, Physician Preference Items (PPI), Regulations and Regulatory Advocacy, Leadership
Special Fraud Alert: Physician-Owned Entities
This Special Fraud Alert focuses on the specific attributes and practices of PODs that OIG believes produce substantial fraud and abuse risk and pose dangers to patient safety.
Change Management, Clinical Resource Management (CRM), Cost Management, Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement, Strategic Sourcing, Strategic Planning
Supply Chain Services Professional's Role in Achieving the Institute of Medicine's Six Aims for Improvement
By AHRMM
In 2001 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published
Change Management, Legislation and Legislative Advocacy, Regulations and Regulatory Advocacy, Reimbursement, Procurement
CMS Releases Proposed Rule for Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a VBP program to pay hospitals for their actual performance on quality measures, rather than just the reporting of those measures, beginning in fiscal year (FY) 2013. The VBP program will apply to all acute-care prospective payment system (PPS) hospitals. Read a summary of key provisions of the proposed rule.
Reprocessing Medical Devices, Procurement
Reprocessing Single Use Devices (SUD) RFP
Please see a sample of a Reprocessing Single Use Devices (SUD), RFP below - you will find this short document and the Reprocessing Narrative Evaulation example covers all the basics, and you can tailor it to your needs.
Asset Management, Data Standards, Unique Device Identifier (UDI), Leadership
AHRMM Comment Letter to FDA Regarding the Draft Guidance for Industry on the Global Unique Device Identification Database (GUDID)
By AHRMM
On November 21, 2013, AHRMM submitted electronically
Cost Management, Legislation and Legislative Advocacy, Regulations and Regulatory Advocacy, Medical Device Technology
Bed Management System RFP
A sample of a bed management RFP covering all the basics. Download the document and tailor it to your needs.
Products and Services Contracting, Data Standards, Distribution, Regulations and Regulatory Advocacy, Unique Device Identifier (UDI), Logistics
FDA Releases Proposed Rule on Unique Device System for Medical Devices
By AHRMM
The FDA UDI ruling has finally arrived - the proposed rule has published. Please see the FDA website (www.fda.gov/udi) for a link to the proposed regulation. Highlights include a 120 day comment period to begin shortly, 6 months later a final ruling that will begin with Class III devices within 2 years, possibly sooner.
Below is the FDA press release: