Health Care Supply Chain Webinar Library

McKesson, along with the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) and Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM), are proud to sponsor an educational webinar series that illustrates how the use of hospital supply chain management can help your patients and your institution thrive.

Click on any Webinar title to get access to download the recording, presentation slides, and/or supporting materials.

Artificial Intelligence - The Future of Supply Chain

Apr. 18, 2013
Speakers: Phil Oaten, President & CEO, Meperia, LLC and Scott E. Pruyn, Product Manager, McKesson Provider Technologies

Education Level: Introduction/Intermediate/Advanced
Description: Technological advances continue to make our lives easier, and artificial intelligence (AI) has become commonplace. In use in other industries, AI technology is now being applied using forms of smart attributes in the healthcare supply chain. This predictive, intelligent, technology helps to support immediate success of value analysis and standardization initiatives, especially through management of high-cost physician preference items.

Detecting Product Equivalency to Drive Lower Physician Preference Items

Feb. 14, 2013
Speakers: Phil Oaten, President & CEO, Meperia, LLC and Scott E. Pruyn, Product Manager, McKesson Provider Technologies

Learning Objective: Understand how technology can support improved product functional equivalency decisions to drive savings
Education Level: Introduction/Intermediate/Advanced
Description: Current product comparison methods result in part number or descriptive misalignment and can fail to identify probable matches. Using multiple match methodologies, artificial intelligence technologies can support comprehensive attribute alignment. This helps organizations to better direct product sourcing to prime vendors with agreements that bring economic advantage and to support standardization efforts with clinicians; i.e, help lower the number and cost of physician preference items.

Using Attribution to Drive Product Rationalization and Savings

December 6, 2012
Speakers: Phil Oaten, President & CEO, Meperia, LLC and Scott E. Pruyn, Product Manager, McKesson Provider Technologies

Learning Objective: Understand how aligning product attributes can support a product rationalization program and lower costs
Education Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Description: Typically hospitals maintain too many products within their system creating more inventory to manage and challenges with cross-referencing. In order to reduce the number of products and vendors, organizations need to know more about the products they use and how they use them. Proper alignment, categorization and understanding of product attributes can provide the information needed to support product rationalization. Providers can then gain a complete picture of how product selection and use impact cost, revenue and potential outcomes.

Harnessing Data Normalization to Drive Product Savings

October 25, 2012
Speakers: Phil Oaten, President & CEO, Meperia, LLC and Scott E. Pruyn, Product Manager, McKesson Provider Technologies

Learning Objective: Understand the methods used to conduct data normalization
Education Level: Intermediate, Advanced
Description: It is difficult to accurately compare products, contracts and vendors due to part number misalignment, descriptive misalignment and incorrect vendor identification. Organizations need to normalize their data to resolve the ambiguities present in the data. Data normalization unites and standardizes both internal/external data so it can be used to drive volume, direct product sourcing to prime vendors and negotiate better contracts.

How to Control Costly Physician Preference Items

August 23, 2012
Speakers: Phil Oaten, President & CEO, Meperia, LLC and Scott E. Pruyn, Product Manager, McKesson Provider Technologies

Learning Objective: Review how to capture all supplies outside the “official” MMIS to gain visibility and control of costly Physician Preference Items (PPIs)
Education Level: Advanced
Description: Physician Preference Items represent big dollars. PPI, including medical devices, account for about 40% of a typical budget (HFMA, 2005), so bringing PPI under control is critical for an organization’s financial success. Organizations need to better capture and understand their PPI purchases by putting new processes in place. These methods will improve visibility into supply consumption, charge validation and opportunities for standardization.

Artificial Intelligence - The Future of Supply Chain

June 14, 2012
Speakers: Phil Oaten, President & CEO, Meperia, LLC and Scott E. Pruyn, Product Manager, McKesson Provider Technologies

Technological advances continue to make our lives easier, and artificial intelligence (AI) has become commonplace. In use in other industries, AI technology is now being applied using forms of “Intelligent Attributes” in the healthcare supply chain. This predictive, intelligent, technology helps to support immediate success of value analysis and standardization initiatives, especially through management of high-cost physician preference items.

Why the Item Master Doesn't Support Value Analysis Efforts

May 31, 2012
Speakers: Phil Oaten, President & CEO, Meperia, LLC and Scott E. Pruyn, Product Manager, McKesson Provider Technologies

Learning Objective: Learn how today’s Strategic Sourcing tools can provide the accurate data needed to support value analysis and standardization efforts
Education Level: All levels
Description: Today’s hospitals require comprehensive, accurate, accessible supply chain data to support cost savings initiatives. Yet, the Item Master—the baseline for item and spend data—is inaccurate, the data fields limited and the surrounding ordering conventions outdated. Simple data cleansing alone is not enough. Instead, a more comprehensive strategic sourcing approach is needed, one that utilizes a Virtual Item Master and Artificial Intelligence to perpetually capture, cleanse and rationalize the entire med-surg spend. This improves visibility and control, and prevents spend leakage.

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