Conference Learning Objectives

Supplier Strategies Track

• Identify changes to IDN supply chain operations and how these changes impact suppliers.
• Explain IDN executives’ new risk management and data-sharing expectations.
• Outline strategies to engage and support IDN leaders’ post-pandemic.
• Analyze changes to the post-pandemic contracting process with IDNs.
• Identify IDN leaders’ new needs and expectations of suppliers.
• Evaluate strategies to overcome current contracting challenges.

Clinical Integration Track

• Describe the future of care and reimbursement trends.
• Identify tactics to leverage new technology to support better patient outcomes.
• Outline strategies to realign your organization with patient’s new care episodes.
• Describe clinicians’ main challenges and pain points during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Explain clinicians’ expectations of supply chain leaders’ post-pandemic.
• Evaluate strategies to improve collaboration between all healthcare stakeholders.
• Describe the barriers to increased data standardization practices.
• Outline steps to improve collaboration with clinicians.
• Evaluate strategies to implement enhanced data standardization in your IDN.

Executive Leadership Track

• Explain what new supply chain leaders need to succeed.
• Outline key current organizational and leadership changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Identify the current staffing trends resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Analyze strategies to leverage artificial intelligence in the supply chain.
• Describe artificial intelligence’s role in improving patient outcomes.
• Evaluate strategies to implement AI technologies in your supply chain.
• Outline the healthcare trends impacting IDN profitability.
• Evaluate plans of action to increase collaboration between stakeholders and drive increased profitability.
• Outline potential strategies to reduce costs and generate revenue post-pandemic.

Financial Operations Track

• Explain the growing importance of transparency in the healthcare supply chain.
• Analyze solutions to simplify the pricing transparency implementation process.
• Identify strategies to improve product transparency and reduce risk in the supply chain.
• Describe the importance of data in effective demand planning.
• Outline strategies to enhance your organization’s demand planning.
• Explain how demand planning can be utilized to improve inventory management.
• Identify digital threats facing today’s healthcare supply chain.
• Analyze potential solutions to digital threats facing IDNs.
• Outline new technologies that could impact the healthcare supply chain.

Pharmacy Track

• Explain strategies to manage the increasing demand for specialty medications.
• Outline current and future specialty pharmacy laws and regulations.
• Formulate plans of action to control the costs of specialty medications.
• Explain the autonomous pharmacy framework and your pharmacy’s current stage in the framework.
• Outline strategies to implement autonomous pharmacy technologies into your IDN pharmacy.
• Evaluate the benefits and drawbacks of autonomous pharmacy operations.
• Outline current federal and state laws as well as proposed legislation impacting drug pricing.
• Analyze expected drug pricing changes in 2022.
• Evaluate strategies to manage and comply with differing laws and regulations.
• Explain the 2022 payment guidelines impacting inpatient and outpatient pharmacy.
• Outline future payment rule trends and developments.
• Formulate mitigation strategies for payment guideline changes.
• Analyze strategies to plan for and manage reimbursement uncertainties.
• Explain the status of litigation and its impact on pharmacy leaders.
• Outline the Biden administration’s position and actions surrounding the 340B Program.

Purchased Services Workshop

• Evaluate strategies to increase the value and reduce the costs of your purchased services.
• Outline plans of action to increase the oversight of your purchased services portfolio.
• Describe purchased services’ role in achieving system-wide and supply chain initiatives.

Senior Executives Forum (in-person conference only)

• Analyze best practices to develop trust with critical suppliers.
• Outline strategies to determine the best suppliers to include in collaboration strategies.
• Identify metrics to measure the effectiveness of supply collaboration.
• Describe strategies to elevate your supply chain visibility and contributions.
• Evaluate strategies that were most successful by others to overcome the challenges of supply chain challenges of the pandemic.
• Identify actions you can take to be better prepared for future pandemic-type disruptions.

Idea Exchanges (in-person conference only)

• Identify key learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic that impact the healthcare supply chain and clinical operations.
• Evaluate the post-pandemic value and viability of best practices developed during the pandemic.
• Outline strategies to prepare your supply chain for future disruptions.

Pharmacy Executive Forum (in-person conference only)

• Describe the challenges facing pharmacy operations today.
• Outline strategic opportunities for pharmacy leaders going forward.
• Identify specific plans of action to prepare for and mitigate future supply chain shortages.
• Outline pharmacy leaders’ main challenges with specialty pharmacy.
• Evaluate strategies to mitigate and manage specialty pharmacy operations.
• Describe specialty pharmacy’s current and future role in healthcare.