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August 31, 2011
Index
Column: Relating Supply Costs to Patient Revenues and Outcomes
Story: Setting the Stage for a Rise in the Polls
Audio: Utilize Relationships to Solve Problems
Audio: Questions to Ask When Evaluating a Technology
Audio: Ignore the Doomsayers
- Relating Supply Costs to Patient Revenues and Outcomes. Rosalind Parkinson shares her thoughts on why supply chain experts need to develop goals for supply chain integration in this Supply Chain Q & A column.
- Setting the Stage for a Rise in the Polls. Results of this new Gallup poll may be shocking, but are they a wake up call for the healthcare industry? The IDN Summit can help healthcare executives with the professional development and relationship building that can strengthen public perception of the industry. Read more from Inside the Summit with John Kelly.
- Utilize Relationships to Solve Problems. Robert Simpson, president and CEO, LeeSar, relates how relationships were utilized to map out a new process that solved a very specific, long-term problem, helping hospitals save millions of dollars along the way. In this audio clip, Simpson discussed the importance of utilizing relationships as he shared this example at the 2010 Fall IDN Summit.
- Questions to Ask When Evaluating a Technology. Winifred Hayes, president and CEO, Hayes, Inc., discusses the use of evidence-based value analysis as it relates to bringing a new technology into a system in this audio clip from the 2010 Fall IDN Summit.com. Are there unanswered questions regarding safety? Are there other solutions to this issue that are already existing within the system? Learn why it's essential to have a list of questions prepared ahead of time.
- Ignore the Doomsayers. Is this really the best time to be a part of the healthcare industry? Chuck Lauer, former publisher of Modern Healthcare, told attendees at the 2010 Fall IDN Summit that the answer to that questions is a resounding yes. Ignore any negativity around you, Lauer told his audience, and focus on the important role you have to play as a part of the supply chain in healtcare. Hear his advice in this audio clip.
August 17, 2011
Index
Column: Motivation for Change
Story: Leading Healthcare Systems Find Value in IDN Summit
Audio: What Does it Mean to be an ACO?
Audio: IDN Savings Strategies: Catholic Healthcare West
Audio: Leading Change: Reorganization
- Motivation for Change. Michael Louviere provdes a snapshot of Baptist Health System's journey toward standarizing physician supply purchases in this Supply Chain Q & A column.
- Leading Healthcare Systems Find Value in IDN Summit. The IDN Summit always attracts an outstanding group of IDNs and September’s event is no exception. It’s a testament to the quality educational programming and networking opportunities that exist for Summit participants. Read more from Inside the Summit with John Kelly.
- What Does it Mean to be an ACO? Michael Randall, formerly with The Camden Group, talks about what an Accountable Care Organization is—and isn't—in this audio clip from the 2010 Fall IDN Summit. He explains that ACOs, as a part of Healthcare Reform, are not simply a demonstration project but rather real entities that are already taking shape and have a role to play in the future of healthcare.You can hear more from The Camden Group at the 2011 Fall IDN Summit in Phoenix when Greg Shufelt, senior manager, The Camden Group, discusses how to establish a financially successful ACO.
- IDN Savings Strategies: Catholic Healthcare West. Managing costs as closely as possible should be the current goal for the industry as healthcare systems navigate the interim period before Healthcare Reform measures come into full force. Looking cosely at purchased services and other areas of cost management are important steps to take, as Peggy Styler, senior director, supply chain operations and contract management, Catholic Healthcare West, discusses in this 2010 Fall IDN Summit audio clip.
- Leading Change: Reorganization of the Nation's Largest Public Hosital System. Budget cuts and cost increase were some of the catalysts behind the reorganization of New York Health & Hospitals Corporation, the nation's largest public hospital system. In this audio clip from the 2010 Fall IDN Summit, Frank Cirillo, former senior VP and chief restructuring officer, New York Health & Hospitals Corporation, discusses what the NYHHC has learned about becoming an ACO during their recent reorganization.
July 27, 2011
Index
Column: Attracting Top Talent, a Supply Chain Survival Strategy
Story: Clinical Integration Speakers Announced
Audio: Gearing Up for Bundled Payments
Audio: Ramifications of Reform
- Attracting Top Talent. Learn David Hargraves' thoughts on attracting, developing and retaining top supply chain talent in this Supply Chain Q & A column.
- Speakers Announced for Clinical Integration Track. Changes in provider culture, reinvented payment methods, new incentives, and modernization of regulations are all giving shape to a new era of clinical integration as patient care is coordinated across the healthcare spectrum. Clinical integration concepts are coming to the forefront for healthcare organizations. The 2011 Fall IDN Summit educational program will include a clinical integration track featuring sessions on the balancing act between clinical outcomes and financial goals, evidence-based decision making, and using data to engage physicians. Speakers for these sessions have just been announced. To learn more, visit the clinical integration track.
- Gearing Up for Bundled Payments. Bundled payments are at the heart of a demonstration project being launched by The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to test whether hospitals and physicians are able to share a single payment per episode of inpatient care and still deliver higher quality, more cost-efficient care. Hear what Gary Whittington, Baptish Health System, has to say about his organization's participation in the Acute Care Episode Demonstration Project in this audio clip.
- Ramifications of Reform. At the 2010 Fall IDN Summit, a panel of industry thought leaders discussed what they believed would be the ramificiations of healthcare reform. Listen to Dr. David Tam, chief administrative officer, Palomar Pomerado Hospital, share his thoughts by downloading this audio clip.
June 22, 2011
Index
Column: Affiliation Frenzy: How Healthcare Reform Will Drive
Supply Chain Innovation
Story: IDN Summit Launches Relief Effort for Joplin Victims
Audio: Transforming How We Deliver Care
Audio: Reform Can Drive More Collaboration
- Affiliation Frenzy. Read Mary Beth Lang's thoughts on how Healthcare Reform has sparked new affiliations in this Supply Chain Q & A column.
- IDN Summit Launches Relief Effort for Joplin Victims. Learn more about the silent auction, raffle and reception to be held at the 2011 Fall IDN Summit and Expo in honor of the Joplin tornado victims here.
- Transforming How We Deliver Care. Thomas Lubotsky, vice president supply chain, Clinical Resource Management, Advocate Health Care, describes his organization's ACO, Advocate Physician Partners, and the process of transforming into a fee-for-value system. The journey involves treating people along the entire continuum of care or total health management. Listen as he describes the process for addressing different strategies by downloading this audio clip.
- Reform Can Drive More Collaboration. One of the biggest changes brought about by Healthcare Reform is that everyone becomes accountable for total care for the patient, from the time of admittance to the system to the time of discharge, points out Rich Rasmussen, vice president for member relations, Florida Hospital Association. Hear what he has to say about how this affects the entire community by downloading this audio clip.
May 25, 2011
Index
Column: Facts Are Stubborn Things
Audio: Certain Factors Key in Physician-Hospital Relationships
Audio: Managing Metrics Brings Challenges
Audio: Successful Partnerships Being With Transparency
- Facts Are Stubborn Things. Read Tony Montagnolo's thoughts on making evidence-based decisions in this Supply Chain Q & A column.
- Certain Factors Key in Physician-Hospital Relationships. What do physicians want? John Mateka, executive director, materials management, Greenville Hospital System, says they want to be decision makers. But in order to be decision makers, they require accurate, reliable information delivered to them within a reasonable timeframe. They also seek technology education, which is an important role for vendors to play. Listen to what Mateka says is also necessary to achieve physician buy-in by downloading this audio clip.
- Managing Metrics Brings Challenges. Does your organization fall into one of the many common pitfalls of utilizing metrics? Eric O'Daffer, research director, Gartner Research, says problems in identifying and using various metrics in healthcare to improve service and financial performance are common and involve everything from not accessing data until it is too old to attempting to benchmark against outside standards that may not apply to your system. When it comes to benchmarking, doing an internal comparison is the key and should serve as a starting point for continual improvement against past performance. Hear what else he has to say on supply chain metrics by downloading the audio clip.
- Successful Partnerships Begin With Transparency. Transparency is vital to a successful partnership, but what happens when the truth isn't always believed or transparency doesn't exist on both sides? Ed Hardin, VP Provider Solutions, Resource Optimization & Innovation, discusses why transparency is important as well as how other factors, like aligning incentives, play significant roles in building the successful provider-supplier relationship. Listen to what he has to say by downloading the audio clip.
May 11, 2011
Index
Column: Standards Movement Gains Momentum
Video: LeeSar Breaks Ground on New Development
Audio: Data Analysis Can Provide Edge with Medicare
Audio: Data Standards Are Greatest Transformational Driver
Audio: Focus Groups Give Insight to Patient Experience
- Standards Movement Gains Momentum. Read Jean Sargent's take on the feasibility and benefits of capturing data in this Supply Chain Q & A column.
- LeeSar Breaks Ground on New Development. LeeSar is set to create a few hundred new jobs in Lee County, Florida, according to the area's affiliate, WZVN-HD. The company expects the new development to translate into at least 150 jobs in operations and services, and hundreds more in construction. According to WZVN, construction should get under way this month on the 197,000-square-foot facility, which should be operationable in about a year. See what else LeeSar CEO Robert Simpson has to say about job creation and the company's new venture by viewing WZVN's video.
- Data Analysis Can Provide Edge with Medicare. What role can data analysis have in helping health systems identify success factors for breaking even with Medicare inpatients? John Whittlesey, principal at the Healthcare Management Council, Inc., describes how taking a data snapshot of which systems are making money on Medicare and which are not can reveal much in helping to improve a system's situation. He also relates how such data is currently dominated by those systems losing money, with only about 12 percent of hospitals able to say they are making a profit. A majority were losing 10 to 20 percent on their Medicare population. Listen to what else the data revealed and how Whittlesey says the results can be put to use by downloading this audio clip.
- Data Standards Are Greatest Transformational Driver. How important strategically are the GS1 Data Standards? Geisinger Health System's Deborah Templeton, who serves as vice president for supply chain services, shares her views on what she feels is one of the greatest transformational drivers in supply chain. She sees numerous benefits to data standards, including the ability put data into electronic records in a standardized way, share data across state lines and between organizations, and extract data for meaningful comparisons. Hear what else she has to say on data standards by downloading the audio clip.
- Focus Groups Give Insight to Patient Experience. How can health systems get a handle on patient satisfaction issues when it seems every stone has already been turned? Sue Tyk, interim director of quality at FMOL Health System, points out that supply chain focus groups can provide some much-needed answers. She relates an example of a hospital that consistently received low scores from patients regarding bedding, despite the hospital procuring high quality linens. A focus group provided the additional missing information necessary to make some changes and improve the patient experience. Hear what more she has to say on the benefits of gleaning data from supply chain focus groups by downloading this audio clip.
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