10th Annual Health Care Supply Chain Management Summit

A clinically robust supply chain involves physicians because they are ultimately responsible for the quality of patient care and outcomes. Partnering with physicians allows supply chain professionals to determine shared goals and identify areas where supply chain processes can be optimized to improve patient outcomes. As health care evolves toward value-based care, hospitals need to evaluate the best model for engaging physicians as clinical leaders of supply chain.

• Define the ideal physician leadership role in value analysis to optimize operational efficiency
• Utilize both financial and clinical data analytics to promote data driven and evidence based care
• Explore different strategies for engaging physicians in a shared vision by using the right motivators

Value Analysis has evolved. What used to be new product introduction committees are now sophisticated teams that are facilitating discussions on product selection and clinical practice, as well as measuring the impact of these decisions on a health system’s standard of care.

• Learn how improved data analytics combined with clinical best practice research empowers the new value analysis process
• Move beyond price points and contract standardization to discussions regarding practice standardization based on appropriate utilization
• Discover how comparative analytics can be used to conduct value analysis by focusing on utilization of products to reduce the total cost of care

With 35% of health care supply chain leaders intending to retire in the next three years, supply chain executives need to ensure they are securing and training talent in order to optimize future savings and achieve better outcomes during leadership changes. In this panel, discuss ways to proactively manage talent to better position your supply chain for future success.

• Gain insights from the 2016 National Survey of Provider Supply Chain Executives on proactive talent management strategies
• Discuss best practices for talent management that impact the bottom line
• Develop criteria for recruitment of both internal and external candidates
• Design continuous training programs to keep talent up-to-date with the evolving supply chain environment
• Explore ways to identify potential within your supply chain
• Recognize and evaluate sources of candidates and/or sources of enterprises that can help prepare internal candidates

As supply chain professionals seek opportunities to add value to the continuum of care through the transition from a fee-for-service model to a risk-based model, they look to their suppliers to provide solutions focused on improving outcomes and lowering the total cost of patient care. The changing landscape of health care dictates supplier partnerships that can provide more than just lower prices; the change calls for increased transparency, data sharing, trust, and increased value-added services. This session discusses strategies shared by both supply chain executives and suppliers that promote risk sharing, reduction in episode spend, and most importantly improved quality and safety outcomes.

• Assess collaborative partnerships that are patient outcome focused and address regulatory compliance and reduce costs
• Identify solutions to address misaligned priorities to sustain valuable relationships
• Assess how value-added services, including analytics, enhanced recovery, and clinical and operational optimization, are leveraged to reduce costs and improve outcomes
• Understand the financial savings that can be achieved with risk sharing and develop strategies for introducing a risk-sharing model

Efficient inventory management is at the core of supply chain success. As hospitals increase in size and demand for products increase, supply chain faces new challenges and opportunities for innovation in product and service delivery across the continuum of care.

• Learn how hospitals and suppliers are working together to better manage inventory
• Discover ways hospitals are integrating their IT infrastructure to consolidate their services
• Conduct value analysis on a supplier’s value-added services to improve inventory management
• Examine how hospitals are upgrading their infrastructure to address FDA GS1 mandates
• Explore the impact of product tracking on delivery and quality of care

In patient-centered and value-based systems, physicians are primarily concerned about the impact that standardizations could have on the quality of care. However, when supply chain teams are able to engage physicians with relevant data, they are better able to make the case as to how standardization can reduce costs and also improve outcomes.

• Utilize supply chain driven predictive analytics to educate physicians on the value of different product options
• Understand how product feedback incentivizes physicians to invest in standardization
• Learn which relevant data metrics are important for physicians for quality care
• Identify strategies to integrate supply chain teams into institutional care teams

Supply chain professionals have been focusing on reducing costs in procurement of products. However, with an increasing visibility of supply chain that is assuming new responsibilities such as purchasing of services, there is need for cost saving strategies to address the costly decentralized nature of purchased services.

• Understand the unique challenges encountered in the procurement of outsourced services
• Discuss strategies to consolidate and centralize the management of purchased services
• Conduct value analysis of purchased services to identify value partnerships

As health care reform continues to push the industry towards a value-based care model, clinicians and hospitals are looking for data metrics for quality benchmarking. Improving supply chain visibility can provide timely and relevant data to clinicians and executives that is crucial for efficient decision making.

• Understand how data driven logistical support to clinical teams can improve processes
• Assess the challenges associated with increasing visibility of supply chain
• Understand how an integrated hospital system with a visible supply chain can optimize performances and partnerships

Convene with industry experts and peers in an informal setting to discuss the biggest challenges facing supply chain professionals today and identify the tools and best strategies to solve them.