AHRMM Podcast

Economic activity in the hospital subsector contracted in May after 35 consecutive months of growth, say the nation’s hospital supply executives in the latest Hospital ISM® Report On Business®.

This is the first in a series of AHRMM Updates Podcast with Mike Schiller and hosted by Justin Poulin. In this first episode we discussed: • High level Strategy - SCRC • Member Engagement - YPAC • On The Fringe Category - Vacutainer Tubes Tune in every month as we highlight trends, strategies and solutions from the field to advance the health care supply chain. _________ AHRMM is proud to announce...

April 2023 Hospital Report Call

Listen as Tariq Kahn discusses his “ah ha” moment of “I need your help”. In these three short webcasts Tariq considers how educating staff about the importance of each key player’s role improves their understanding of the final goal and helps projects to be accomplished with efficiency and success. Webcast 1: Reduce Waste through Human Engagement and Investment Webcast 2: Business and Clinical Sid...

Listen as Tariq Kahn discusses his “ah ha” moment of “I need your help”. In these three short webcasts Tariq considers how educating staff about the importance of each key player’s role improves their understanding of the final goal and helps projects to be accomplished with efficiency and success. Webcast 1: Reduce Waste through Human Engagement and Investment Webcast 2: Business and Clinical Sid...

Listen as Tariq Kahn discusses his “ah ha” moment of “I need your help”. In these three short webcasts Tariq considers how educating staff about the importance of each key player’s role improves their understanding of the final goal and helps projects to be accomplished with efficiency and success. Webcast 1: Reduce Waste through Human Engagement and Investment Webcast 2: Business and Clinical Sid...

AHRMM presents a four-part series on successful collaboration with suppliers. In part four, Brent Petty, executive industry consultant at Lexmark International, discusses supply chain leaders’ top concerns and how suppliers can be a helpful partner.

AHRMM presents a four-part series on successful collaboration with suppliers. In part three, Brent Petty, executive industry consultant at Lexmark International, discusses finding common ground between providers and suppliers and working towards the total cost of ownership.

In part two of a four-part series on successful collaboration with suppliers, Mike Schiller, Director of supply chain at AHRMM, discusses relationship building, utilizing trust and transparency.

AHRMM presents a four-part series on successful collaboration with suppliers. In part one, Mike Schiller, director of supply chain at AHRMM, discusses AHRMM’s CQO Movement and IHI’s Triple Aim and how they are affecting the health care supply chain today. As primary care shifts its focus to prevention, suppliers need to partner with providers to provide best practices and tools for prevention and...

Matt Burns, Director eCommerce Solutions at Premier discusses the $200B explosion of health care supply chain e-commerce usage during the two years since the COVID-19 pandemic began and the variety of ways organizations are using it to increase revenue and improve transparency and operations management.

Consider the historical path of the Unique Device Identifier (UDI) currently hovering at its real-time usage and the resulting in cost savings and patient safety improvements. Dick Perrin of AHRMM’s Learning UDI Community (LUC) discusses the atomization and use of the same UDI across the continuum allowing for quick identification of recalled products and the patients they may have affected, as we...

Understand how innovation is hindered by the barriers of competition and how to actively seek it. Speaker: Dennis Orthmann, Access Strategy Partners

Reducing recall communication difficulties through UDI use and standards development. Vicky Lyle, Vice President, Industry Association Owens & Minor

Listen as Susan Morris emphasizes the benefits of a strong relationship between clinical staff and supply chain in a hospital or health system.

Ensure clinicians have the right patient care products by connecting them with supply chain to decrease risk and improve documentation work flow. Speaker: Vicky Lyle, Vice President Industry Association, Owens & Minor

Learn how supply chain and surgical teams improved data points to generate meaningful, relevant and actionable information through collaboration with all stakeholders including Finance and other departments. Speaker: BJ McCluskey, Director of Resource Optimization, McLeod Health

Measure your organization against 15 key supply chain indexes for actionable insights related to health care supply chain and change thinking through the Institute for Supply Chain Management (ISM) Hospital Report on Business (HRoB). Speaker: Nancy LeMaster, CEO, Nancy J LeMaster Consulting

Learn four value-based contracting methods suppliers can use with provider partners such as evidence-based care, product guarantees, risk share by product and risk share by alternative payment model. Speaker: Myla Maloney, Vice President, Strategy and Commercial Operations Premier, Inc.

In this podcast, Russel Royer, Loma Linda University Health, and Lana Makhanik, VUEMED, discuss the optimization of clinical supply chain, the alignment of inventory with clinical needs, and the prevention of unnecessary spending using expiration and stagnation-type KPIs together with RFID UDI data capture and procedure-based forecasting.

Consider 10 leading practices to incorporating supplier diversity, inclusion, and equity.

Substantial opportunities exist to enhance vendor relationships to create partnerships that support more reliable supply chain operations. Achievement of improved end-to-end performance must include the elements of value and quality as compliments to cost-focused considerations. Historical wisdom often represented such elements as mutually exclusive, especially when viewed through vendor optics, b...

Yolanda Redmond, VUMC and Terrie Reed, Symmetric Health Solutions describe the challenges of matching data sources and public information. Learn how VUMC’s database cleanse and implementation of both GTIN and other key elements allowed for close alignment and the ability to provide clinical teams with a deeper level of insight, leading to improved value analysis outcomes.

Trisha Smith discusses various checks and balances to minimize risk in working with a new vendor.

Colonel Vic Suarez discusses COVID insights that can help you successfully realize project goals in a short timeframe.