AHRMM Podcast

Decision making by studying where our data is coming from and the outcome of its source.

Discover how to identify and reduce the 30% of charge capture that is missed in OR suites

Listen as Elizabeth Hilla, senior vice president at 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.

Dr. Jimmy Chung 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.

Learn the best practices of setting PAR levels and what you need to know to ensure you have the proper stock.

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.

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.

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.

Robotic Process Automation or RPA is new to the health care field but can be solution to reduce margins at your hospital. Richard Mackey, Senior Vice President of IT at Intalere, explains what RPA is, how it can be utilized in health care, and how it is affordable for all hospitals.

John Bass, Founder and CEO of Hashed Health explains how Blockchain works, some of the current Blockchain initiatives and how health care organizations can use it to share data.

Learn how hospitals in dire need of PPE can be matched with supplies donated by other hospitals, organizations and individuals. Using an unbiased algorithm, the free HealthEquip DonorExchange is designed to ethically distribute PPE to organizations in critical need. Developed in partnership with the American Hospital Association (AHA), hospitals are encouraged to use the free HealthEquip DonorExch...

Jeff Berman, Principal and Healthcare Supply Chain Practice Leader at Grant Thornton, discusses emerging trends in the health care supply chain due to COVID-19 and steps health care organizations can take to build a stronger and more resilient supply chain.

Michael Brown, Director of Supply Chain Management and Eric Swaim, Manager of Strategic Sourcing and Vendor Management at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston share their unique approach to sourcing PPE supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic and how they plan to continue sourcing in the future.

Tom Lubotsky discusses leading practices for sourcing leaders to maintain accountability for product categories and for operations to close the loop.

Tom Lubotsky discusses Allina Health’s supply chain command center transformation as they discovered how to best combat COVID-19.

Learn how UCHealth was able to rapidly change and improve their inventory methods throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and how you can apply these lessons learned in your organization to better manage your inventory.

Discover how a Medical Logistics Crisis Action Team could help your institution quickly organize efforts and resources in addition to your Incident Command System. Col. Victor Suarez, Assistant Chief of Staff, Logistics at the US Army Regional Health Command-Atlantic explains their approach to the MedLog CAT during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Brian Bartel, Director of Supply Chain and Support Services, and Crystal Lacey, Trauma Coordinator and Emergency Preparedness RN, at Willamette Valley Medical Center in Oregon share their preparation strategy and a few of the processes established to help combat COVID-19.

Mike Schiller, Senior Director of Supply Chain at AHRMM and Brent Petty, Executive Industry Consultant at Lexmark Healthcare discuss effective supplier reconnection as providers slowly emerge from the pandemic into a staggered implementation of elective procedures within the “new normal."

Listen as one small community hospital discusses how they used volunteers to locate critically needed PPE and medical supplies to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Randy Bradley, Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management and Information Systems at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, discusses the attributes leaders must have in order to be effective when managing a multi-generational workforce.

Karen Conway, Vice President, Healthcare Value at GHX and Mike Schiller, Senior Director of Supply Chain at AHRMM discuss the value of UDI beyond regulations highlighting recall management and how manufacturers can help.

Dr. Cherf, Chief Medical Officer at Lumere, and Dr. Suk, Chief Physician Officer at Geisinger System Services, share eight best practices to engage physician leaders in your supply chain. Download the best practices here: Bit.ly/2RmkOnt

Explore how your value analysis committee may be prohibiting innovation and how to overcome roadblocks to drive innovation that affects population health, patient experiences, and costs.

John Kelty from W.L. Gore & Associates discusses how value analysis committees can determine a medical devices value when evaluating new products.