AHRMM

Change Management, Leadership

The Top Ten Leadership Traits to Lead the Way

Cost Management, Physician Preference Items (PPI), Reimbursement, Value Analysis, Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement

Value Based Purchasing and Value Analysis Series Part 3

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 three discusses how accurate value analysis and product choice can affect VBP outcomes.

Benchmarking, Cost Management, Purchased Services, Strategic Sourcing

Seven Pitfalls of Purchased Services

Purchased services typically represents over 20 percent of a healthcare system’s total annual expenditures. During this webinar, we discuss best practices to understand actionable data, identify smaller spend categories for your staff to tackle, and decide when it is safe to go at it alone versus when to recruit additional resources.

Career/Professional Development, Certified Materials & Resource Professional (CMRP)

CMRP: What I Gained. What You Can Gain. - Part 1

Distribution, Financial Management, Pharmacy, Suppliers, Strategic Sourcing, Procurement

Take Action to Manage Drug Shortages - Causes, Advocacy, and Tools

This webinar provides an overview of the reasons for drug shortages, recent advocacy efforts to ameliorate the situation, and action steps organizations can take to minimize the impact of drug shortages on patient care. Specific drug shortage examples such as the IV fluids shortage are discussed.

Analytics & Research, Regulations and Regulatory Advocacy, Reimbursement, Unique Device Identifier (UDI), Leadership

The UDI Rule: Are You Ready?

Hospitals need a tool to leverage the use of UDI within their health care organizations to empower the Cost, Quality, Outcomes Movement. This webinar explains the many benefits the UDI system can bring both to a hospital’s bottom line and to patients. With proper tools implemented by healthcare providers, UDI will help to lower cost and increase quality, thereby improving patient outcomes.

Analytics & Research, Benchmarking, Performance Metrics

Benchmarking Metrics That Make Sense

Every organization has a variety of internal and external benchmarks at their disposal. Metrics need to be practical for each individual provider, and the supply chain must choose its measurements and comparisons carefully. In this webinar, we discuss meaningful benchmarking and explore several scenarios, useful metrics, and variation considerations to help make appropriate decisions that can improve supply chain performance.

Career/Professional Development

CMRP: What I’ve Gained. What You Can Gain – Part 1

AHRMM members discuss why they chose to earn their Certified Materials Resource Professional (CMRP) Certification and the rewards they have gained personally and professionally.

Change Management, Career/Professional Development

Customer Service in Health Care Supply Chain Certificate Course

Price: Member: $98.00 | Non-Member: $198.00

Continuing Education Credits (CECs): 2 hours

Analytics & Research, Cost Management, Financial Management, Reimbursement, Suppliers, Unique Device Identifier (UDI), Leveraging Technology

Help! I Can’t Find My OR Supplies!

Tracking surgical supplies is a challenge. Average returns for picked supplies is low, O.R. in-and-out traffic to retrieve items is high, and significant staff hours are spent checking consumption, restocking, and locating supplies. UTMC and DeRoyal have developed a "smart" radio frequency identification trash bin that tracks inventory used during a case, charges for that inventory, and shows where items are located in the room in real time.