McKenna Series Lecture

• Outline the current status of your supply chain’s resilience and reactivity to disruption.
• Question ways in which your operations could become more efficient with improved resilience.
• Identify methods of preparedness that your organization can implement prior to future disruptions.
• Analyze the importance of having a world that is diverse in terrain as opposed to being “flat” or “spiky.”
• Identify areas within your organization that could pose as a barrier for future talent.
• Analyze ASU faculty’s recommendations for successful implementation of new talent into healthcare supply chain roles.
• Outline your organization’s current demand for future talent.
• List beneficial criteria for new talent to demonstrate upon graduation.
• Evaluate the current state of the medical supply chain.
• Outline what level of resilience your organization currently has and what could bolster this.
• Draw conclusions regarding the future of the medical supply chain based on trends and current status.
• Prepare strategies for building immunity within your organization in the face of disruptions.

 

Pharmacy Executive Forum

• Identify challenges facing the IDN pharmacy supply chain.
• Outline current processes and operational best practices for the IDN pharmacy.
• Evaluate opportunities to increase efficiency in your pharmacy operations.
• Analyze implementation strategies to overcome barriers preventing organizational buy-in.
• Analyze examples of DSCSA implementation in other organizations.
• Define the DSCSA’s applicability within your organization.
• Explain the importance of a proactive approach to the DSCSA.
• Identify areas of weakness in your organization’s DSCSA integration.
• Outline the key components and benefits of the 340B drug pricing program.
• Evaluate examples from your peers as it relates to their own experiences with 340B.
• Analyze strategies to optimize your organization’s 340B participation.
• Identify compliance requirements applicable to your own organization.

 

Clinical Operations Track

• Evaluate your organization’s current value analysis program highlighting key strengths and weaknesses.
• Analyze the dynamic between supply chain and physicians.
• Identify real-world examples of supercharged value analysis programs.
• Outline areas in which procedural supply costs are not efficiently monitored.
• Define utilization as it relates to your clinical operations.
• Demonstrate an understanding of physician product preference and its implications for your organization.
• Analyze examples of organizations prioritizing physician engagement.
• Identify effective methods of communicating data to physicians.
• Define the role of the service line within your organization.
• Analyze the current relationship between supply chain and service line administrators at your organization.
• Outline strategies for developing a stronger partnership with service line administration.
• Explain how examples of service line partnerships can transform your organization.

 

Data Insights Track

• Explain the major existing challenges that impact supply chain resilience across healthcare organizations that may impact care delivery and patient outcomes.
• Identify key benefits of AI and associated high-impact use cases that organizations can consider exploring for their supply chain operations.
• Analyze key lessons learned from existing industry examples presented across planning and implementation phases to determine what steps organizations can take to intentionally invest in AI technology to enhance their supply chain operations.
• Evaluate key determinants of the AI adoption framework including, key considerations around organizational fit, readiness, and regulatory requirements to help kickstart organizations’ journeys with AI for supply chain operations.
• Outline the importance of effectively utilizing collected metrics to streamline operations within health systems.
• Identify miscommunications and reasons why metrics may go unnoticed within organizations.
• List methods and strategies for effectively monitoring and analyzing collected data to identify areas of weakness and opportunities for improvement.
• Draw insights from industry thought leaders on leveraging data to take proactive actions that enhance efficiency and bolster processes within organizations.
• Analyze the challenges of data fragmentation and the importance of consolidating data elements from diverse system applications.
• Identify key principles of interoperability and integration necessary for seamless data utilization.
• Evaluate best practices in building robust data integration platforms to facilitate effective data management.
• List examples to gain insights into the benefits of cohesive data environments.

 

Executive Leadership Track

• Examine the importance of effective GPO partnerships.
• Identify the limitations of viewing the GPO-provider relationship solely through the lens of a traditional vendor/customer dynamic.
• Explore areas for improvement within your organization’s GPO partnership.
• Analyze how rethinking the dynamics of the GPO-provider relationship can lead to improved outcomes and mutual benefits for all parties involved. 
• Analyze examples from current health systems preparing for the future.
• Outline five actionable predictions relevant to the operation of your organization.
• Evaluate the key factors contributing to unpredictability in the healthcare supply chain as well as strategies for mitigation.
• Develop proactive strategies for anticipating future trends in the healthcare supply chain.
• Outline your organization’s current process for transitioning leadership roles.1
• Identify areas for improvement in your leadership transition process.
• Evaluate strategies implemented by UC Health during their leadership transition.
• Explain the importance of honoring current processes when transitioning into a leadership role.

 

Financial Performance Track

• Evaluate the source of your organization’s savings opportunities.
• Identify areas of strength where your organization is already prioritizing savings beyond price. 
• Analyze savings opportunities beyond traditional contract categories.
• Draw conclusions based on examples to determine areas for growing savings.
• Identify strategies for implementing an efficient governance structure to manage non-clinical purchased service costs.
• Define non-clinical purchased services within your own organization.
• Evaluate the relationship between supply chain and purchased services spend.
• Analyze practical spend management strategies.
• Define the contracting process as it functions in your organization.
• Identify areas of uncertainty related to terms and conditions.
• Outline best practices for managing expectations and defining ambiguous aspects of contractual agreements.
• Formulate a strategy for effectively planning business reviews.

 

Pharmacy Revenue Track

• Analyze the 2025 updates to the 340B program and what they mean for you.
• Outline the implications of the 340B updates for your organization.
• Organize an idea of what these updates could mean for the future of the 340B program.
• Evaluate state and national updates and where you could encounter both.
• Define what revenue integrity means in your organization.
• Perform an extensive overview of your organization’s adherence to revenue regulations.
• Identify areas at risk of non-compliance.
• Outline the importance of revenue integrity throughout the patient journey.
• Analyze the relationship between supply chain and pharmacy in your organization.
• Outline ways that supply chain and pharmacy can learn valuable information from one another.
• Translate case studies and stories into actionable advice to take into the future of your organization.
• List areas of overlap between supply chain and pharmacy.

 

Pharmacy Clinical Track

• Analyze Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s strategic steps to optimize their specialty pharmacy division.
• Outline areas for growth within your own organization’s specialty pharmacy capabilities.
• Identify strategies implemented by Vanderbilt that address common pain points.
• Describe the noticeable difference in operation due to Vanderbilt’s advancements.
• Outline the contracting process behind cell and gene therapy.
• Explain difficulties faced by cell and gene therapy contracting
• Specify opportunities unique to cell and gene therapy contracting.
• Differentiate between cell and gene therapy contracting and other methods of contracting.
• Explain H@H and its impact on the healthcare industry upon implementation.
• Evaluate the validity of care outside of the clinical environment as well as any negative implications it might have.
• List healthcare programs that provide care beyond the clinical environment.
• Outline ways in which your organization can take advantage of at-home alternatives.

 

Leadership Lessons to Elevate Performance

• Evaluate mentality needed to overcome adversity and achieve your goals.
• Investigate how leaders prepare their teams to make success inevitable.
• Outline battle-tested peak performance and risk-management methodologies to improve your team’s tenacity to work to achieve organization’s goals and vision.
• Identify best practices in creating the tools to success for any role within any organization.

 

Intersection of Healthcare and Politics

• Evaluate the current political impact on healthcare.
• Analyze all potential outcomes of the election results and how that will shape healthcare for the future.
• Identify areas your organization can be proactive to prepare for policy changes.
• Outline potential opportunities and challenges your organization will face based on the 2024 election results.

 

Overcoming Adversity: The Damon West Story

• Discover how accidents and addiction can alter a person’s life.
• Identify key steps necessary to change your life path and overcome adversity.
• Evaluate ways your organization can look within to create better outcomes and increase productivity.
• Adopt a results-oriented attitude to exceeding expectations within your day-to-day life

 

Supply Chain Forum

• Discuss best practices for leadership development.
• Discover new approaches to issues that have been successful at other organizations.
• Identify ways you can assist others with their challenges.
• Review challenges impacting your organization.
• Compare with peers to determine the most effective methods of implementing leadership development.
• List ways that leadership development can be obstructed.
• Identify strong leadership with your organization.
• Formulate proactive strategies for ensuring ample leadership development.
• Assemble a list of the most critical characteristics in an effective partnership.
• Compare your definition of a successful and beneficial partnership with your peers.
• Detect areas of weakness in your own partnerships and how these areas can be bolstered.
• Identify strategies for achieving more effective partnerships organization wide.

 

Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) Workshop

• Identify topics of high interest from your experience at your organization.
• Analyze current best practices and innovative solutions.
• Evaluate challenges present in your organization related to DSCSA.
• Define DSCSA and what it means to you and your peers.
• Outline your organization’s DSCSA processes including areas of strengths or weaknesses.
• Identify tactics implemented to be proactive in ensuring quality patient care.
• Analyze government regulations and their impact on your pharmacy.
• List practical initiatives and ways to implement them within your supply chain.
• Evaluate your organization’s biggest roadblocks of implementation.
• Outline the blueprint that you will use moving forward to successfully adhere to DSCSA guidelines.
• Identify solutions to the obstacles facing your organization.
• Analyze peer-suggested methods for handling DSCSA regulations most efficiently and effectively.

 

Senior Executives Forum

• Identify primary topics of interest from your experience at your organization.
• Analyze current best practices and evaluate innovative solutions.
• Evaluate communication strategies to obtain organizational buy-in.
• Assemble implementation tactics to streamline improvement of your IDN’s supply chain.
• Identify benchmarking best practices.
• Question areas where metrics could be improved upon in your organization.
• Evaluate peer organizations and the strengths and weaknesses of each.
• Analyze strategies for developing a road map for your organization.
• Evaluate the economic and forecasting goals of your organization.
• Define what role economics plays in the supply chain.
• Identify the long-term impact of effectively utilizing forecasting.
• Analyze the importance of economics and forecasting in the global supply chain.