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Career/Professional Development
Participating with AHRMM: What it Means to You, Me and the Healthcare Supply Chain Field
AHRMM strives to provide the education, information, and resources necessary for its members to remain at the top of their field. Tune into this podcast episode and hear from two AHRMM members as they discuss the opportunities to actively participate with the Association, and how your involvement will benefit you and the supply chain community.
Change Management, Products and Services Contracting, Purchased Services, Strategic Sourcing, Suppliers, Strategic Planning, Suppliers
Shared Risk Contracting: Provider and Supplier Perspectives Webinar
New risk sharing models align the economics of an agreement to product or service performance and outcomes. In this webinar, we discuss this relatively new concept in health care and how sharing responsibility can enhance both parties’ performance levels and improve patient outcomes through mutual investment.
Products and Services Contracting, Cost Management, Data Standards, Materials Management Information System (MMIS), Procure to Pay, Procurement
The Process of Operationalizing Contracts to Support CQO

Price: Member: $98.00 | Non-Member: $198.00
Continuing Education Credits (CECs): 2 hours
Cost Management, Reimbursement, Physician Preference Items (PPI), Value Analysis
Value Based Purchasing and Value Analysis 101 – Part 1
In this three-part webcast, Howard Mann, Vice President, Supply Chain Management at Cardiovascular Care Group discusses the basics and relationship of Value Analysis and Value Based Purchasing to achieve high Cost, Quality and Outcomes success. Part one explains Value Based Purchasing and its effects on hospital reimbursement.
Presented by: Howard Mann, Vice President, Supply Chain Management, Cardiovascular Care Group
Clinical Resource Management (CRM), Products and Services Contracting, Regulations and Regulatory Advocacy, Procurement
Annual Clinical Contract Evaluations: Are You Ready?
In this webinar, we discuss the clinical contract evaluation process, including government requirements, expectations, and improving contract performance with the use of key performance indicators.
Analytics & Research, Financial Management, Logistics
Cracking the Bullwhip - See How Demand Variation Affects the Supply Chain
Increased demand can lead to reactive replenishment but triggers be identified and assessed before rushing to order. Take control of your inventory through proactive demand pattern identification to address issues and changes before they arise. In this webinar, experts discuss the data needed to predict usage patterns and trends, as well as best practices to improve inventory for high value and commodity products.
Financial Management, Shipping and Receiving, Distribution, Logistics
Essentials of Logistics Certificate

Price: Member: $239.00 | Non-Member: $299.00
Continuing Education Credits (CECs): 5 hours
Products and Services Contracting, Suppliers, Strategic Planning
GPO or Local/Self Contracting Series: Expectations of GPO Partners and Summary – Part 4
Panelists in Part 4 of the GPO or Local/Self Contracting webcast series focus on what providers should expect from their GPO partners. In a Part 5 bonus section, included only in the podcast version, we listen to the panelists answer questions of those who attended this session during the AHRMM16 Annual Conference.
Data Standards, Inventory Management, Regulations and Regulatory Advocacy, Unique Device Identifier (UDI), Procurement
Medical Products of Human Origin, UDI and ICCBBA: Supply Chain’s Role Podcast
AHRMM Podcast on how supply chain should be interdepartmentally conversing to determine the handling of human-origin medical products and their UDIs.
Career/Professional Development
Ten Lessons for Writing – Part 2
Join Dave Kaczmarek as he reviews 10 lessons for writing, including sentence structure, commas, apostrophes and capitalization.