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Listen as Elizabeth Hilla, Senior Vice President, Health Industry Distributors Association (HIDA), discusses the most successful strategic sourcing strategies during the pandemic and health care supply chain resiliency leading practices, including stockpiling considerations and established supplier relationships. 3 Forward-Thinking Strategic Sourcing Methods

Dr. Jimmy Chung, Chief Medical Officer, Advantus Health Partners, Bon Secours Mercy Health discusses how physician leadership was critical during the COVID-19 pandemic, development of defined physician leader roles and creating a permanent physician leader position in supply chain organizations. 

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.

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.

Consider how direct sourcing can enable access to PPE and the leading practices of building supply chain diversity and resiliency for the future in this Banner Health case study.

Though the health care industry is continuing to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, many industry leaders are also looking to build a more resilient supply chain by asking, “What could we have done differently?”, and “How should we prepare for future pandemics and other crises?”

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As health care emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain resiliency is a priority. One primary consideration has been how to develop inventory reserves to mitigate the risk of severe product shortages.

AHRMM has named Michael Schiller, senior director of supply chain at AHRMM, as the 2021 recipient of the George R. Gossett Leadership Award.

Learn the best practices of setting PAR levels and what you need to know to ensure you have the proper stock. Speaker: Stewart Layhe, Former Director of Supply Chain and Support Services, Denver Health Watch the Webcast Version

Healthcare expenses continue to rise and yet hospitals are realizing consistently shrinking margins. Healthcare supply costs are typically the second largest expense to a hospital and must be managed in a manner that ensures providers have access to quality products but also with an emphasis on cost awareness and expense reduction strategies. Healthcare supply chains must leverage their data in order to make better business decisions to reduce costs and increase operational efficiencies through the use of business analytics.

COVID-19 has exposed the fragile nature of the health care supply chain, but it’s not the first public health crisis to do so. Michael Schiller, AHRMM's Senior Director of Supply Chain, and Richard Bagley, Senior Vice President, Chief Supply Chain Officer, Penn State Health, led the discussion on lessons learned and ways we should rethink supply chain strategies for the future.

In this panel discussion, you will hear from industry experts in financial, clinical, supply chain and risk management on their approaches to this critical issue.

Jessica Campbell, Senior Data Analyst at BJC HealthCare, shares her three steps or questions she uses when rolling out planning projects, building tools, and rolling out metrics that lead to actionable metrics. Also available as a podcast.

Hear from the Stanford Medicine supply chain team, led by Amanda Chawla, vice president of supply chain, on how they have maintained and enhanced their team culture while in a distributed workforce with inventive communication and collaboration techniques.Presenters from Stanford Hospital, Stanford Children's Health, Stanford-Valley Care (Stanford Medicine):

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.

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

AHRMM's recommendations help to avoid the inefficiencies, unnecessary product demand, cost and operational management associated with hospitals establishing their own surge inventories, or state mandates for hospitals to maintain a specified number of days of on-hand inventory of critical products and supplies.

Crises can stress even the strongest leaders. Listen as Dee Donatelli discusses the need to focus on skills that we may not have considered critical a year ago as we continue to virtually lead our teams to improved health care supply chain and patient care. Also available as a podcast.

How to assess the total procedural value through a clinical and economic lens.