AHRMM

Products and Services Contracting, Cost Management, Procurement

Essentials of Negotiations Certificate

Price: Member: $239.00 | Non-Member: $299.00

Continuing Education Credits (CECs): 5 hours

Products and Services Contracting, Suppliers, Strategic Planning

GPO or Local/Self Contracting Series: Introduction and the GPO Role – Part 1

Allen Archer, System Director of Supply Chain at Houston Healthcare, leads a thought-leader panel discussion about the role of GPOs within the changing health care landscape and the and the daily decision of using a GPO or regional/local contracting.

Analytics & Research, Distribution, Financial Management, Strategic Planning

Managing Supply Chain in Health Care Reform

This webinar discusses the health care supply chain, its strengths and weaknesses. It reviews best practices around the industry, including what Intermountain Healthcare has done with building its own logistics/distribution functionality. It will also present the implications of the future of the industry with the changing horizon that comes with the Affordable Care Act, including preparing to serve non-acute operations.

Career/Professional Development

Ten Lessons for Writing – Part 2

Join Dave Kaczmarek as he reviews 10 lessons for writing, including sentence structure, commas, apostrophes and capitalization.

Leadership

The Supply Chain Executive of the Future

in this short video webcast, Mike Schiller, Senior Director, AHRMM and Dennis Othman, Senior Director, SMI discuss the four key pillars of knowledge and traits based on findings and feedback from various conference and work group meetings with supply chain leaders, individual interviews and literature research.

Analytics & Research, Data Standards, Materials Management Information System (MMIS), Regulations and Regulatory Advocacy, Unique Device Identifier (UDI), Leveraging Technology, Technology

UDI: A Story of Implementation

Hear one provider’s ongoing process of UDI implementation, from deciphering acronyms and educating interdepartmental staff, to working with vendors to redesign ERP software to meet FDA data capture and reporting regulations, all while creating procedures for others to follow.

Value Analysis

Value Analysis 201: The 5 Why's of Value Analysis – An Introduction

Lean thinking continues to emerge and embed its ideas into our traditional ways of thinking about Value Analysis and Healthcare. In lean thinking, the thought is to ask “why” five times to get to the root cause of an issue.

Cost Management, Strategic Planning, Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement

Day in the Life of CQO: Examples from the Field

A panel of health care industry leaders shares their insights and experiences in creating a best-practice supply chain that supports the intersection of cost, quality, and outcomes within their institutions.

Materials Management Information System (MMIS), Procure to Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Procurement

Essentials of Purchasing Certificate

Price: Member: $239.00 | Non-Member: $299.00

Continuing Education Credits (CECs): 5 hours

Products and Services Contracting, Suppliers, Strategic Planning

GPO or Local/Self Contracting Series: Contracting Option Choices – Part 2

In part 2 of the GPO or Local/Self Contracting webcast series, the panel considers the multiple product categories and the process of choosing the most appropriate contracting option.