Session Details: Spring 2019 IDN Summit

Gather with your peers in this small-group research setting as you share observations and insights on some of the issues having the greatest impact in the healthcare supply chain. Host companies seek your opinion on industry trends, business priorities and other facets of the healthcare supply chain. Additionally, you will learn from the insights of fellow healthcare supply chain leaders. Each focus group is limited to 10 attendees.

2019 IDN Summit Focus Groups Hosts

Abbott | Improving Surgical Outcomes with Principles of ERAS (Enhanced Recovery After Surgery)

St. Andrews B

Abbott Nutrition invites you to join an interactive discussion on ERAS, multimodal perioperative care pathways designed to achieve early recovery after surgical procedures by maintaining preoperative organ function and reducing the profound stress response following surgery. A key element of ERAS protocols includes optimization of nutrition. Join us for a discussion on how nutrition intervention can be championed and implemented into your facility’s practice.

BD | Simplifying the Contracting Process

Royal Melbourne B

We are seeking input on how BD structures contracts with IDNs in order to simplify our approach. In this Focus Group, you will provide input on a proposed structure and validate if it indeed simplifies both the contracting process and resulting documents.

BroadJump | Why Algorithms Matter: Lowering Costs by Applying Smart-Analytics to the Sourcing Process

Royal Dublin A

Lack of transparency and price variation can prevent your healthcare organization’s supply chain from maximizing savings. BroadJump has created an expense management application to analyze medical-surgical expense across a comprehensive database of facilities to easily identify actionable savings opportunities and negotiate with suppliers. In this focus group, we will examine the struggles faced by your supply chain when it comes to controlling costs, and how you utilize comparative analytics to achieve cost savings.

Healthcare IQ | Value of Supply Chain in Enterprise Analytics

Royal Melbourne A

Healthcare IQ’s focus group seeks insights into the importance of leveraging analytics to drive cost savings and decision-making within the clinical space. Discuss new technologies that allow for quick access to metrics, such as supply cost per case, as well as the clinical drivers that help drive standardization and optimization. Provide feedback on Healthcare IQ’s Analytics Continuum and how, with the supply chain as the foundation, it can assist with optimization and innovation.

McKesson | Integrating Supply Chain Across the Non-acute Care Continuum
St. Andrews A

As healthcare moves towards more non-acute care, what is your health system’s supply chain strategy across the non-acute care continuum? Join other health system thought leaders for a focus group on how to design, build and measure a high performing non-acute supply chain strategy. This interactive Forum allows you to network, exchange ideas and gain insights on how to navigate through the current and future challenges of managing a supply chain that extends across the non-acute care continuum – from the physician’s practice to the patient’s home. Exploring 10 components of a successful strategy, the shared insights and peer exchange from this Forum will help shape an innovative supply chain performance assessment platform.

Olympus| Keeping Pace with PPI Innovation: Realizing the Full Value of Negotiated Contracts

Royal Dublin B

When you’re challenged with reimbursement cuts and transitioning to new payment models, keeping pace with PPI innovation to improve patient care and enhance the patient experience can be challenging. Olympus strives to continuously develop technologies that address the Triple Aim goals, and in this interactive session you will have a chance to share your perspectives and insights on strategies for keeping pace with PPI innovation and best practices to effectively implement PPI contracts.

WilMarc Medical | Moving Toward a 100% PVC Free, Healing Environment

Glen Eagles

How aware are clinicians and support staff about the harmful effects of PVC Phthalates & DEHP exposure? How can we help make them more aware? How committed are hospitals to eliminating toxic chemical exposure from patients and staff? What healthier hospital type initiatives do they currently have in place? Will these initiatives expand in their respective institutions? How can we help them expedite this process? How important is 100% made in the U.S. and minority ownership? What steps, call points and messaging do we need to address to get evaluations started on our products?

For more information about the IDN Summit Focus Groups, contact Lisa Ponssa.