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Strategic Sourcing in Healthcare

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A well-conceived strategic sourcing program starts with an analysis of the total spend or operating expenses of the organization utilizing an “ABC” analysis and category/spend segmentation ma

A Framework for Success: Applying the Baldrige Excellence Framework to the Healthcare Supply Chain

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This paper explores the application of the Baldrige Excellence Framework to the health care supply chain.

Navigating 340B - A Supply Chain Primer

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The Purpose of this white paper is to prepare Supply Chain professionals to better understand how to support navigating some of the risks and opportunities inherent in participating in the 340B Dru

AHRMM16 CQO Summit White Paper

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In 2014, AHRMM hosted the first Cost, Quality, and Outcomes (CQO) Summit to bring healthcare thought leaders together and discuss particular supply chain issues and concerns.

Supply Chain's Changing Role in the Expanding Care Continuum

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As health care organizations look for ways to meaningfully impact cost, quality and outcomes, they are expanding the care delivery continuum and increasingly transitioning services out of the

AHRMM18 CQO Summit White Paper

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2018 AHRMM CQO Summit: Each year at the annual AHRMM Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Summit, participants throughout the healt

Workforce Roles in a Redesigned Primary Care Model

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In September 2011, the American Hospital Association convened a roundtable of clinical and health systems experts to examine the future primary care workforce needs of patients, as well as the role hospitals and health care systems can play in effectively delivering primary care.

Connecting the Dots Along the Care Continuum

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This paper is designed to continue the conversation around the concepts discussed in AHA's "Hospitals and Care Systems of the Future", and the AHA Workforce Center's "Workforce Roles in a Redesigned Primary Care Model" and "Reconfiguring the Bedside Care Team of the Future" and explore them in greater depth.

Reconfiguring the Bedside Care Team of the Future

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The American Hospital Association (AHA) recently convened a roundtable (for a list of participants, see Appendix B) to discuss whether the traditional bedside care team could be reconfigured to meet the imminent needs of the U. S. population. These needs emanate from a more culturally and socio-economically diverse population, patients experiencing acute episodes with multiple conditions, and an aging population requiring more health care services. Driving the need for change is the reality that, in 2014, more than 25 million new patients will enter the U.S. health care system as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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Theft of Intellectual Property: Threats to Medical Research and Innovation

In this members-only white paper by the AHA Center for Health Innovation, John Riggi, senior adviser for cybersecurity and risk at the AHA, and Edward You, supervisory special agent for weapons of mass destruction at the FBI, outline growing concern among the FBI, Congress and some health care leaders about the theft of U.S. medical research intellectual property by foreign governments. Recently the Senate Finance Committee held a hearing on foreign threats to taxpayer-funded research.