Articles
Clinical Integration
6 Ways to Excel at Building Clinical Relationships
Much of health care supply chain is now working to connect with clinicians to reduce of unnecessary variations and waste to achieve CQO and the Triple Aim. When working to build a relationship with clinicians, your success factor will improve when you come to the conversation with an understanding of their personalities and needs. Below are six areas to consider before you engage them.
Clinical Integration
4 Things Physician Champions Can do to Ensure Clinical Integration Success
Clinical integration starts with physician champions. Supply chain executives can’t be experts in all areas, and successful clinical discussions tend to occur when physician leaders are the ones initiating those meetings with their physician peers. The physician leader should be able to challenge their colleagues to answer the question, “how does this really benefit the patient?” and “does it benefit beyond just improving a process? In addition, as part of the contract negotiations team, a physician can push back on the supplier to ask clinical questions about the product or device.
Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement
The Healthcare Supply Chain: Best Practices for Operating at the Intersection of Cost, Quality, and Outcomes
This book was written to enhance the strategic contributions of the healthcare supply chain in a way that is most meaningful to hospitals’ and health-systems’ value-based goals.
Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement
AHRMM19 CQO Summit White Paper | CQO: The Power of Clinical Integration
AHRMM19 CQO Summit White Paper entitled CQO: The Power of Clinical Integration.
Products and Services Contracting, Procure to Pay, Purchased Services, Strategic Sourcing, Procurement
A Question of Ownership Aligning Processes Between Accounts Payable and Supply Chain
In many organizations, the relationship between supply chain and accounts payable is strained due to lack of clarity and ownership. This webinar discusses ways to form a collaborative, streamlined, and process-driven approach to reconciling purchase order errors, facilitating purchase order matching, and creating positive outcomes for departments and vendors.
Clinical Resource Management (CRM), Products and Services Contracting, Regulations and Regulatory Advocacy, Procurement
Annual Clinical Contract Evaluations: Are You Ready?
In this webinar, we discuss the clinical contract evaluation process, including government requirements, expectations, and improving contract performance with the use of key performance indicators.
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.
Strategic Planning
CQO and Nexera Member Successes Webcast
Analytics & Research, Benchmarking, Products and Services Contracting, Physician Preference Items (PPI), Reimbursement, Clinical Resource Management (CRM), Value Analysis
Hospital Collaboration Pays Off Even for Implants
Yankee Alliance facilitated an Orthopedic Total Joint Collaborative in order to identify opportunities for quality improvement and cost reduction, resulting in documented savings of over $8M. In this webinar, the collaborative approach is reviewed as well as the methods deployed to achieve savings, including implant and reimbursement benchmarking, contract strategies, and perioperative supplies utilizing data analysis.
Central Sterile, Distribution, Financial Management, Regulations and Regulatory Advocacy, Sustainability, Strategic Planning
Supply Chain Cardboard and Storage Best Practices
On-site supply storage is one of the core competencies of effective supply chain management, and adhering to standards and regulations is an ongoing practice. Whether products are stored in bins or in cardboard boxes, supply chain must ensure all employees follow guidelines for patient safety. In this webinar, a panel of veteran supply chain professionals discuss The Joint Commission Standards and the necessity for risk assessment.