Conference Learning Objectives:
- Outline the characteristics, strengths and weaknesses, and preferred methods of communication for each of the 4 DISC styles.
- Identify common themes and trends relative to the hurdles with retaining talent.
- Explain how to use product standardization to reach the goals of excellent and consistent care, patient safety, increased efficiency, while lowering costs at the same time.
- Identify techniques for better physician-supply chain collaboration.
- Formulate new strategies for evaluating medical devices and drugs for clinical efficacy and cost effectiveness.
- Compare and contrast analytics and benchmarking platforms to help compile a picture of your purchased services performance.
- Identify what a clear decision-making process on purchased services looks like.
- Explain what practices may be employed to make value analysis more effective in the era of value-based payments.
- Describe the structure of bundled payment projects and how supply chain gains a seat at the table.
- Identify the administrative challenges in integrating supply chain and revenue cycle operations.
- Analyze how the decision to build or partner plays out in inpatient care vs. outpatient/ambulatory.
- Outline the financial impact these strategies have.
- Specify what influence major payers have on the decisions health systems make.
- Define episode-based care reimbursement and how pharmacy can play a role in it.
- Outline strategies for pharmacy to impact care in bundled payment initiatives.
- Demonstrate why outcomes become such an important metric in bundled payment.
- Determine the impact of payors and the idiosyncrasies of working with them.
- Examine possible solutions on costs.
- Develop new strategies that shake out old habits and question policy.
- Demonstrate how pharmacy can help manage patient populations, especially through medication reconciliation.
- Evaluate ways that pharmacists can help reduce costly readmissions.
- Outline how drug price hyperinflation is harming IDNs’ bottom line, and what to do about it.
- Demonstrate how to use forecasted demand to lower inpatient utilization.
- Formulate methods of using in-house analytics at similar cost and quality to that provided by third-party vendors.
- Compare and contrast the key performance indicators that really matter.
- Identify the potential implications of the current healthcare financing debate on the demands of the healthcare industry, in general and supply chain in particular.
- Determine how to identify key influencers and decision makers for purchasing decisions.
- Identify the pitfalls of mergers or partnerships that did not work out.
- Develop an effective approach to enhancing supplier relationships within your facilities, including stakeholders and all areas of supply chain.
- Identify a process for gathering, scoring and discussing results of five key performance categories.
- Discuss a tool that can be used to measure, communicate and create next steps for improving supplier performance.
- Analyze best practices for collaboration between physicians and supply chain.
- Identify the features available to physicians when using a mobile device application to make value-based product selections.
- Apply lean principles to enhance supply chain performance.
- Analyze strategies to achieve alignment among supply chain and clinical stakeholders.
- Examine methods of utilizing the power of analytics and big data to influence decision makers and gain consensus.