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Introduction to Health Care Supply Chain: Supply Chain Basics (Part I)

Enhance your knowledge of health care supply chain management with our Introduction to Health Care Supply Chain course. Improve patient care and operational efficiency.

Beyond Costs: Improving the Financial Performance of Your Health Care Organization

This on-demand session was presented at the Spring Summit: Transformational Excellence.

The UDI Rule: Are You Ready?

On-Demand Educational Webinars
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.

The Value Cycle

On-Demand Educational Webinars
In order to compare baseline costs to savings and determine areas of compliance risk, supply chain professionals need to work closely with their revenue cycle colleagues maintaining the chargemaster. This webinar explores how supply data elements in your item master and chargemaster play a role in negotiating payments, in disbursing across the continuum of care, and in assessing variations in clinical practice.

Now's the Time! We Must Engage Physicians to Reduce Costs and Improve Outcomes

On-Demand Educational Webinars
This AHRMM webinar will help engage physicians to reduce costs and improve patient outcomes.

Hospital Collaboration Pays Off Even for Implants

On-Demand Educational Webinars
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.

Help! I Can’t Find My OR Supplies!

On-Demand Educational Webinars
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.

CMS Bundled Payments

On-Demand Educational Webinars
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a proposed ruling which introduces three new episode payment models for Acute Myocardial Infarction, Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts, and Surgical Hip/Femur Fracture Treatment. This webinar provides an overview of the proposed ruling and CJR changes and a discussion of how hospitals should be preparing for the go-live date of July 1, 2017.

Who's Keeping Score? Using CQO Scorecards for Service Line Success

On-Demand Educational Webinars
Wellmont Health System in Tennessee has developed a scorecard to help supply chain executives convince even the toughest clinicians and hospital administrators to collaborate and drive down overall costs (while maintaining the highest standards of patient care and safety) by speaking their language: evidence. This webinar provides detail on how to use the DRG scorecard. An excel file of the scorecard is provided upon completion.

Value Based Purchasing and Value Analysis 101 – Part 1

Webcast
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 a