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Value Realization: Keys to Implementing Value Analysis Opportunities
Value Analysis programs are charged with evaluating products and services while balancing cost, quality, and outcomes in the decision. The quality of the products and the outcomes from using the products cannot be compromised, but today’s environment within healthcare dictates that cost is a significant factor influencing the decision. Unfortunately, the identified savings is not always realized in the anticipated time frame or to the full extent. Every week an initiative is delayed or not fully implemented results in lost dollars that cannot be recouped.
Policies and Procedures Manual for the Health Care Supply Chain, 2nd Edition
Book
AHRMM's Policies and Procedures Manual for the Health Care Supply Chain, 2nd Edition contains over 160 new and revised health care supply chain policies and procedures to reflect current leading practices needed to run a successful supply chain department in any health care organization.
Strategic Marketplace Initiative (SMI) Resources for Supply Chain
Toolkits/Methodology
The Strategic Marketplace Initiative (SMI) is a consortium of healthcare supply chain executives united to re-engineer and advance t
The Impact of Supply Chain Processes on O.R. Time, Efficiency, & Overall Cost
On-Demand Educational Webinars
Resiliency in the operating room is imperative in today’s health care climate. A well-functioning OR has the potential to increase the number of patients served and further enhance its contribution to the hospital's bottom line. This presentation discusses how supply chain process improvements help achieve CQO in the OR.
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.
Organizing and Executing Supply Chain Costs through Clinical Variation and Reduction
On-Demand Educational Webinars
Reducing variability in products, supplies, pharmaceuticals, and other cost drivers is key to achieving margins in Medicare payment. This webinar tails the process used by Vidant Health (an eight-hospital system with a 900-bed academic medical center) to engage physicians in standardization resulting in substantial savings. We cover the process from beginning to end, pitfalls, discovery, and outcomes.
Malnutrition Care Management
On-Demand Educational Webinars
Advocate Health Care developed a provider-supplier partnership that reduced re-admission rates and improved quality of care inside and outside of the hospitals. This webinar discusses elements of the collaborative research, the clinical economic baseline and outcome, as well as how the quality improvement program components lead to better care process.
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.
Recent Guidance on Meaningful Use of EHRs Makes Compliance More Difficult
Letter/Comment
Recent Guidance on Meaningful Use of EHRs Makes Compliance More Difficult.
Reduction of Surgical Site Infections Using Lean Ochsner Health Case Study
Podcasts
Nattie Leger, Director of Nursing Pursuit of Value, discusses how Ochsner significantly reduced their 2015 surgical site infections rate and a substantial cost avoidance using an interdisciplinary