Total Recall: Overcoming Alert Fatigue with Product Recalls

How compliant is your hospital with managing product recalls? What if that one you miss causes a sentinel event? Everyone agrees the use of email and paper mailings to send notifications is vastly outdated, but what is the real opportunity to utilize technology and bring our recall potential into the 21st century?  On this week’s episode of Power Supply, Guillermo Ramas joins Hays Waldrop and Justin Poulin to provide some history on how product recall alerts began and how little things have changed over time.  If you find yourself spending too much time sifting through recall alerts and racing to stay ahead of the clinicians who often receive them before supply chain, then this episode is for you! Patients are counting on you!

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Clinical Links in the Supply Chain: The Rising Impact of Nurses on Strategic Sourcing Initiatives

Value analysis committees have begun to focus on form and function for the front lines versus taking a traditional supplier-oriented approach with their strategic sourcing initiatives.  Having clinical representation has been a key component to the success of these initiatives and the industry has seen more and more nurses becoming involved in supply chain. On this episode of the Power Supply podcast, Tracey Chadwell, BSN, RN, CVAHP, HACP Senior Director of Advisory Solutions at Intalere joins us to talk about her path from nursing into supply chain and the benefits that clinical integration has in aligning outcomes and supply chain strategies. Tune in to hear tips on how to factor in physician preferences, vendor rep relationships, and product experience for success across your health system. Pull up a chair and plug in to Power Supply!

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What’s Your ROI on VMI? Capturing Costs of Vendor Managed Inventory

Missing items and the associated reimbursements are an enormous challenge to controlling costs related to Vendor managed inventory.  Transparency and quality data is integral to finding areas for improvement related to chargebacks.  Keerthi Kanubaddi, CEO at ReadySet Surgical joins us for this episode of Power Supply to talk about the opportunity to align Suppliers and Healthcare organizations by adopting technology to help drive efficiency in managing loaners, consignment and implants.  We learn how to calculate the return on investment and identify some hard savings that can be realized and help make the case for adoption.

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Trifecta of Triumph: The Master Link between Supply Chain & Revenue Cycle

Supply Chain initiatives have a direct impact on the healthcare institution’s ability to generate revenue, but in many cases the collaboration is nearly non-existent.  How do we bridge the gap between revenue cycle and supply chain to ensure a successful and coordinated effort?  Kelli McRory from Jefferson Health in Philadelphia provides a roadmap for engaging revenue cycle teammates in your organization.  The benefits of aligning supply chain and finance include improving the accuracy of charges, enhancing revenue capture and accelerating cycle times while also increasing supplier accountability.  Join us for this episode of Power Supply which should inspire you to join Kelli on her journey to establish a fully integrated supply chain model and achieve the “Trifecta of Triumph”!

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Change Management: The Art of Listening to the Internal Customer

Most often, change is met with some level of resistance.  Large projects touch so many end users that the pressure mounts and it can be difficult to successfully engage many internal stakeholders.  Dan Pfister has proven success with change management and joins us for this episode of Power Supply to share his secrets for aligning patient needs and clinician values with a strategic sourcing initiative.  We also learn about the benefits of a consolidated workforce and what the future might hold for moving supply chain closer to the source of materials management on the front lines.

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Supply Operations Insights: Maximizing GPO Relationships

Consolidation has been occurring through healthcare, no matter what side of the table you have been sitting on for the past decade.  GPOs have been no exception and sourcing strategies have been forced to change as well.  Jeff Stevens shares his extensive experience and perspective on how to get the best value from your Group Purchasing Organization affiliations.  How have you leveraged your GPO contracts successfully?  What limitations do you face related to exclusivity versus a pick and choose approach?  On this episode we dive into emerging opportunities in the world of GPOs such as Purchased Service and gain insight from an industry expert with an interesting background in healthcare!

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