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 | Measure. Score. Act. - Utilizing Comparative Analytics to Better Manage Non-Labor Expenses
Royal Dublin A
As a healthcare executive, you’re on a mission to control spend and provide quality care within your organization. BroadJump has developed a comprehensive expense management solution, providing a centralized view of spend analytics for your entire facility or system to easily identify areas in need of improvement. This focus group will explore how your organization utilizes data and analytics to control expense, improve utilization and positively impact quality of care delivery.
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 | Maximizing Operational Efficiency in the OR & Endoscopy Suite with an Uptime Service Partnership
Royal Dublin B
Providers are being asked to provide the best possible clinical outcomes and patient experience at the lowest possible price—Value-Based Care. Operational efficiency is at the core of “value,” especially in busy ORs and endoscopy suites, but to have operational efficiency you need to be operating, not waiting. Olympus Service recognizes the critical role of uptime in enabling providers to reduce costs and deliver a high quality, positive patient and clinician experience. Olympus invites you to join this session to explore innovative uptime concepts and share your perspectives and insights on maximizing uptime in your facilities.
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.