Conference Learning Objectives:
Clinical Integration Track
- Evaluate solutions to improve your procedures to run a more efficient supply chain.
- Outline your plans to get everyone on-board to new lean initiatives to deliver quality care and drive margin improvement.
- Define effective processes of integrating supply chain data with clinical systems to improve clinical outcomes.
- Outline the benefits of investing in clinical data analysis programs to improve decisions.
- Construct supplier data integration programs to improve integration between your supply chain, providers and suppliers to benefit patients and lower costs.
- Judge why more IDNs are using predictive analytics tools to reduce supply chain cost and improve performance of their IDN.
- Analyze trends using predictive analytics to improve the public health of your community to cut down on healthcare costs and increase life expectancies.
Financial Operations Track
- Analyze recent initiatives in inventory management that are improving bottom-line performance of the healthcare supply chain.
- Evaluate recent strategic initiatives that are driving the expansion of responsibilities of the healthcare supply chain.
- Prepare for any pitfalls that may await you as you take advantage of opportunities to expand your supply chain.
- Outline plans to communicate effectively to C-suite and others impacted in your organization on the expanding role of your supply chain.
- Detect vulnerabilities in your healthcare supply chain.
- Analyze how collaboration and accountability can work for all parties to improve the supply chain of any IDN.
- Formulate a clear communications strategy to ensure all parties in your supply chain understand their responsibilities.
Pharmacy Track
- Assemble patient data in meaningful and manageable ways to improve patient outcomes.
- Demonstrate how manipulating data from multiple sources can improve efficiencies in IDN pharmacy operations. Translate data from multiple sources to positively impact drug shortage situations.
- Compare different issues impacting IDN pharmacies and decide where you need to focus.
- Assemble information on issues that you believe will impact your operations in 2020.
- Describe the impact of non-action if your IDN doesn’t react to upcoming events.
- Define the potential impact new pricing proposals and rules have on Medicare, Medicaid reimbursement for hospital pharmacy operations.
- Differentiate the components of the various proposals and rules impacting IDN pharmacy operations.
- Analyze the importance of IDN specific analytics when preparing for these proposals and rules that will impact your pharmacy supply chain.
Collaboration Strategies Track
- Choose which collaboration strategy best impacts your organization.
- Prepare to outline to your organization how they can best collaborate with other healthcare organizations.
- Identify the challenges of collaborating between supply chain and the clinical leaders of an IDN.
- Formulate strategies to meet the challenges of improving the patient experience while maintaining cost discipline by better collaboration practices within the IDN.
- Discuss recent initiatives that have improved collaboration between INDs and their suppliers.
- Recognize the commitment all sides need to bear to achieve collaboration success to improve the healthcare supply chain and ultimately patient outcomes.
Supplier Strategies Track
- Identify the differences between value-based and outcomes-based contracting.
- Analyze what the move toward value-based contracting means for healthcare suppliers.
- Discover opportunities that will impact your organization.
- Outline initiatives involving value analysis in US based IDNs.
- Discover the purpose of value analysis initiatives.
- Formulate strategies to use value analysis trends to improve healthcare supplier offerings to IDNs.
- Describe the heightened interest in risk sharing and what it means to healthcare suppliers.
- Explain how risk sharing can drive partnerships between IDNs and healthcare suppliers.
- Identify methods of cultivating collaborations that are mutually beneficial for all parties.
Senior Executives Forum
- Identify disruptive entrants that will impact healthcare.
- Formulate plans to navigate future disruptions.
- Outline strategies to better understand how disruption could benefit your organization.
- Define the disruptions most likely to impact your supply chain.
- Outline contingency plans to ensure optimal supply chain performance.
- Identify the disruptions that may prove catastrophic and what should be done when those catastrophes impact your supply chain.
- Discuss the disruptive events that are most likely to impact your supply chain and how you can prepare for disruption.
Pharmacy Executives Forum
- Examine the underlying reasons drug shortages occur.
- Specify how your IDN can improve patient care by lessening the impact of drug shortages.
- Demonstrate the power of AI and how it can impact your IDN with drug shortages.
- Rank the priorities necessary for you to implement AI to assist you in dealing with drug shortages.
- Describe the impact that the opioid epidemic has on hospital services.
- Identify successful practices implemented that have reduced the rate of drug diversion.
- Produce strategies for wide-spread adoption and implementation of these services in your IDN.
- Describe the dispenser requirements under DSCSA.
- Outline the FDA’s DSCSA implementation milestones.
- State the critical importance of maintaining accurate DSCSA data.
- Discuss ways to improve your plans on drug shortages.
- Formulate your action plans concerning drug shortages.
Idea Exchanges
- Demonstrate best practices for successful value analysis programs.
- Define what collaboration means between providers and suppliers.
- Organize ways your organization can better collaborate.
- Prepare for increased responsibilities facing supply chain.
- Formulate ways suppliers can best assist providers as their areas of responsibilities face continued expansion.
- Outline contingency plans to ensure optimal supply chain performance.
- Identify the disruptions that may prove catastrophic and what should be done when those catastrophes impact your supply chain.
- Identify opportunities where suppliers can positively impact the supply chain and clinician relationship.
- Construct successful programs that you can utilize to improve your supply chain by enhancing your relationship with clinicians.
- Identify types of data and data sources that are of benefit to your organization.
- Differentiate the various tools and platforms your peers are using to assist them in driving increased efficiencies within their organization.
- Define ways you can improve your organization with data.