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You may already know about the Association for Health Care Resource & Materials Management's (AHRMM) CQO movement, but have you heard about the YPAC (Young Professionals Advisory council)?  Perhaps you've earned your Certified Material & Resource Professional (CMRP) and attended AHRMM's annual conference and exhibition to get CECs, but you'll be surprised to hear all that the education committee h...

On this week's episode of Power Supply Articles On-the-Go, Bob Yokl makes the case for looking at the big picture and big wins available to your hospital Supply Chain team: "Don't get bogged down researching special requests, or as I like to call it "trivia", when there are dozens of high value savings targets that you should be working on. Running down these oddities might be fun to do, but it wi...

When it comes to adding space, a hospital has two options: move to a new building and renovate, which can completely disrupt staff operation, or use the current space and invest in a more space-efficient storage system. On this Power Supply Vendor Spotlight, we sat down with Ian Loper from DSI to chat about an integrated, high-density storage system that can meet all the safe and efficient sterile...

How do you incorporate operational measurements into the larger context of managing expenses and delivering care to the community?  Is your health system able to effectively connect those measures to the most important KPI, patient outcomes?  On this episode of Power Supply Lana Makhanik, CEO from VueMed joins Hays Waldrop, Garry Skinner and Justin Poulin to discuss strategies for developing compe...

On this week's episode of Power Supply Articles On-the-Go, Bob Yokl describes the importance of diagnosing your healthcare Supply Chain challenges before trying to implement a solution: "The simple truth is that we, as an industry, are treating symptoms of a problem more often than the actual cause of the behavior with so-so results. To correct this behavior, diagnose before you prescribe a soluti...

How can providers and suppliers partner effectively to tackle the rising concerns around Cybersecurity as Healthcare Organizations get "smarter"?  The contracting process can be cumbersome for suppliers, and the contraction process and negotiations represent challenges for the healthcare supply chain.  On this episode of the Power Supply podcast, Marc Sammons and Matthew Webb from IT Security and...

Cybersecurity has become one of the top concerns of healthcare organizations and the general public in recent years.  What should you and your organization be considering as we consistently strive to keep up with the pace of change within information services?  Tahjar Roamartinez is an "ethical hacker" with a broad experience in Cybersecurity and having chaired multiple boards and bringing deep go...

Backorders have been wreaking havoc on supply chain for nearly two years and it appears that they are here to stay!  On this week's episode of the Power Supply podcast, Suzi Collins joins Hays Waldrop, Gary Skinner and Justin Poulin to talk about how her organization has developed processes to better manage backorders and give her team the confidence to work autonomously.  One secret: Never take a...

Machine learning and artificial intelligence are driving innovation and creating the tools that will take Supply Chain to the next level. In this week's episode of Power Supply, Vincent Matozzo CEO & Managing Partner at Paradigm Venture Group LLC joins the rest of the team to share his vision for the future of Supply Chain and what can be done today to view aggregated data from disparate platforms...

Preference cards can be time consuming to maintain but also an ongoing opportunity to remove waste from the system from both the clinical & supply side.  Ensuring that your efforts are not in vain takes good data, a commitment from multiple departments, adoption from leadership, and a sustainable process.  On this week's episode of the Power Supply podcast, Susan Pfeifer and Alison Sonstelie join...

How has the pandemic and frequent backorders impacted your ability to provide necessary supplies to the clinicians on the front lines?  How much time and effort was required of your health system to find available items already in stock so that they could be redistributed to other areas in need?  How flexible and sophisticated are your sourcing options when PPE is hard to find and in high demand? ...

Have you squeezed all the juice out of line items savings?  Do you find yourself spending more and more time on RFPs and proposals that represent smaller and smaller savings?  Do you struggle to develop and coordinate value analysis committees that can work efficiently and deliver the results that make a true impact on the bottom line?  Well, then this episode is for you.  Bob  Yokl , an experienc...

How compliant is your hospital with managing product recalls? What if that one you miss causes a sentinel event? Everyone agrees the use of email and paper mailings to send notifications is vastly outdated, but what is the real opportunity to utilize technology and bring our recall potential into the 21 st century?  On this episode of Power Supply, Guillermo Ramas joins Hays Waldrop and Justin Pou...

In healthcare, small changes in regulations and disruptions in supply chain can have a ripple effect on an industry. On this  Power Supply Vendor Spotlight, we talk with Christian Berling, VP of Sales and Marketing at Heine, about going back to the drawing board to manufacture the industry's only reusable LED laryngoscope handle that can be sterilized without any disassembly with a validated low-l...

Value analysis committees have begun to focus on form and function for the front lines versus taking a traditional supplier-oriented approach with their strategic sourcing initiatives.  Having clinical representation has been a key component to the success of these initiatives and the industry has seen more and more nurses becoming involved in supply chain. On this episode of the Power Supply podc...

Missing items and the associated reimbursements are an enormous challenge to controlling costs related to Vendor managed inventory.  Transparency and quality data is integral to finding areas for improvement related to chargebacks.  Keerthi Kanubaddi, CEO at ReadySet Surgical joins us for this episode of Power Supply to talk about the opportunity to align Suppliers and Healthcare organizations by...

Supply Chain initiatives have a direct impact on the healthcare institution's ability to generate revenue, but in many cases the collaboration is nearly non-existent.  How do we bridge the gap between revenue cycle and supply chain to ensure a successful and coordinated effort?  Kelli McRory from Jefferson Health in Philadelphia provides a roadmap for engaging revenue cycle teammates in your organ...

Most often, change is met with some level of resistance.  Large projects touch so many end users that the pressure mounts and it can be difficult to successfully engage many internal stakeholders.  Dan Pfister has proven success with change management and joins us for this episode of Power Supply to share his secrets for aligning patient needs and clinician values with a strategic sourcing initiat...

Consolidation has been occurring through healthcare, no matter what side of the table you have been sitting on for the past decade.  GPOs have been no exception and sourcing strategies have been forced to change as well.   Jeff   Stevens  shares his extensive experience and perspective on how to get the best value from your Group Purchasing Organization affiliations.  How have you leveraged your G...

These days everyone is in love with big data and the insights that can be gleaned from them thanks to the computing power we now have available. However, managing large data sets comes with its own challenges, such as establishing and maintaining the integrity of the information that is being collected. On this week's episode of the Power Supply podcast, we sit down with Mark Olney to explain what...

Mark Van Sumeren was concerned by what he was seeing and reading in the media during the early days of the pandemic and so he began to do his own research.  Motivated to counter the denial and fear mongering, he put his engineering background to use and began to collate information into a daily insights and a newsletter that he shared by email with a few close colleagues.  The response was positiv...

The global healthcare crisis has impacted the supply chain not only in terms of a decreasing supply to meet an unprecedented increase in demand, but also how hospitals are able to receive supplies due to access restrictions imposed to control the spread of infection.  Mike Palazzini joins us on this week's episode of Power Supply to discuss several unique challenges, including chain of custody whe...

Is your schedule filled with back-to-back Teams meetings?  Are you answering emails late into the evening?  Have you struggled to stay active over the past year?  The idea of working from home sounds great when you are commuting to the office every day, but that fantasy has not become reality as many professionals have learned.  The increasingly blurred line between work and life has been an incre...