The World Congress 6th Annual Leadership Summit on Hospital Supply Chain and Materials Management

The supply chain is increasingly viewed as a strategic asset for the hospital and supply chain leaders are being asked to assume community-wide responsibility for better purchasing decisions that enable a higher quality of care in a more cost effective and efficient manner. Since 40-45% of the hospital’s total operating expenses are represented by supply chain and as much as 80% of some orthopedic and cardiac implants contribute to total procedural costs, there’s a huge opportunity to impact the hospital’s bottom line by improving supply chain management. 

Through thought-provoking panels and case studies,at this summit, you will hear how leading organizations are transforming their supply chain departments into centralized systems with a strategic, collaborative and innovative focus to accomplish the overall business and clinical goals of the organization.

By attending this Summit, you will be able to:

• Develop the strategy needed to prepare for ACOs, comparative effectiveness, bundled payment
  
• Define specific opportunities for mutual success and metrics with your supplier partners
• Engage physicians, senior administration and manufacturers to support all-play contracting efforts
• Standardize purchasing practices incorporating outcomes and user feedback for high quality
• and efficiency
• Apply best practices and lessons learned from the retail food industry to health care
• Leverage technology to analyze spend practices, variability and to optimize the supply chain
• Invest in clinical value analysis and identify effective tools for its implementation

NEW FOR 2012

• An expanded technology track that will focus on enabling technologies such as RFID, spend analytics and reporting, warehouse management and other ways to optimize your supply chain
• A track with programming geared to the supplier with strategies for relationship building and partnerships

Featured Faculty:

Lyn Bair, RN, BSN, MBA Director of Clinical Sourcing Supply Chain Organization Intermountain Healthcare	Kevin Capatch Director of Supply Chain Technology and Process Engineering Geisinger Health System	Nicholas P. Dominick, Jr. Vice President for Imaging Services, Cardiac Services and Supply Chain Operations Lifespan
Curtis Dudley Vice President, Integrated Business Solutions, ROI Sisters of Mercy Health System	Gary J. Fennessy Vice President, Operations Northwestern Memorial Healthcare	Mark Fontaine-Westhart, CMRP Chief Logistics Officer Veterans Health Administration’s Upstate NY Integrated Healthcare Network
James Grieger Director, Customer Solutions, Health Systems, Syncreon	Edward Jimenez Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Shands at the University of Florida	Laurel Junk Vice President, Supply Chain Procurement & Supply Kaiser Permanente Health Plan
Michael Louviere Vice President, Supply Chain Baptist Health System	Thomas M. Lubotsky Vice President, Supply Chain and Clinical Resource Management Advocate Health Care	Gary D. McMann, FACHE Chief, DHS Supply Chain Network Los Angeles County, Health Services Administration
Rosaline Parson, RN, BSN, CCRN Corporate Director, Supply-Chain Services Orlando Health	Harold E. Richards, Jr. Director of Materials Management Edward Hospital & Health Services	Eugene Schneller, PhD Co-Director, Health Sector Supply Chain Research Initiatives Department of Supply Chain Management W. P. Carey School of Business Arizona State University
Wendy Sparks, MBA, CMRP Senior Director, Supply Chain Management, Western Region Banner Health	Michael Tarnoff, MD, FACS Adjunct Associate Professor of Surgery Tufts Medical Center Global Chief Medical Officer Covidien	Deborah Petretich Templeton, RPh, MHA Vice President, Supply Chain Services Geisinger Health System
Natalia Wilson, MD, MPH Co-Director, Health Sector Supply Chain Research Consortium W.P. Carey School of Business Arizona State University