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HRSA Finalizes 340B Administrative Dispute Resolution Process
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) April 19 published the 340B Administrative Dispute Resolution (ADR) final rule establishing a process that was required under the Affordable Care Act.
Assuring Patient Safety through Capture and Management of Product Attributes
Supply chain attributes inform critical supply availability and alignment with internal and external needs, integral to meeting pressures to deliver safe care.
Unique Device Identifier (UDI-DI) Communication Change Process Report
The UDI-DI Change Communication Process Work Group, a part of AHRMM's Learning UDI Community (LUC), recently released a report analyzing current communication processes and their implications on all stakeholders related to changes to the UDI-DI. Gain a clear understanding of how these changes are documented in affected software systems, identify gaps between current and desired states, and develop recommended practices to improve the process for all stakeholders.
UDI Impacts on Recall Management Work Group Report
The UDI Impacts on Recall Management Work Group, a part of AHRMM's Learning UDI Community (LUC), has released their recommended practices reports that analyzes the barriers and highlights the benefits to patient safety and key stakeholder groups when utilizing the UDI throughout the recall process. Work group members identified recommended practices for each of these groups underscoring mutual areas for improvement in the safety and efficacy of the recall process.
In addition to the two Impact Reports, there is also a comprehensive Regulatory Resource Guide and a Supporting Information document with detailed reports, resource links, surveys and summary presentations that the work group members created, as well as a Recall Time & Cost Collection Tool.
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.
With Congressional Action Limited, Administration Releases Flurry of Health Care Regulations
During the last two weeks we have seen a flurry of regulatory activity affecting hospitals and health care providers, and we expect that trend to continue for the next several months.
AHA Statement on "Evaluating Approaches to Diagnostic Test Regulation and the Impact of FDA’s Proposed Rule."
AHA statement before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce
Subcommittee on Health on the impact of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) proposed regulation of diagnostic tests.
AHA Urges Congress to Provide Support to Help Minimize Further Fallout from Change Healthcare Attack
We are now on day 13 of the crisis caused by the recent cyberattack on Change Healthcare and its impacts on hospitals, health systems and patients around the country. We urgently need Congress's support to help minimize further fallout from this attack.
Medical Products of Human Origin, UDI and ICCBBA: Supply Chain’s Role
Webcast
Supply chain is in the unique position, working with so many different disciplines within the hospital, that it is natural that they initiate conversations on the proper management of these product