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"The train for change in supply chain management is moving down the track. It would be wise to get on board now so collectively we can make major improvements for our customers - patients."
— Steven W. Huckabaa, Network VP of Supply Chain Management, Kettering Medical Center Network
"Right on target with the provider world"
— VP/Material & Facility Resources, St Alexius Medical Center
"Great Conference!"
— Geraldine Goodstone, Argony University
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Friday, January 25, 2008
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6:45 am
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7:15 am
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| Join us for focused, dynamic working-group sessions, exploring specific industry challenges
and innovations, during our morning Market Insight Series. A catered networking breakfast
with speakers and C-Suite delegates will accompany these sessions, where emerging
critical issues in healthcare supply chain management will be explored. |
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8:00 am
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8:15 am
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- Overview of SMI as an organization and its impact on the healthcare supply chain
- Learn about and receive complementary CDs of SMI Solutions, including:
- "Measuring Effective Relationships"
- Software tool developed to promote collaboration between business partners.
See a first-hand demonstration of this automated management tool that focuses
a relationship on up to 48 different elements, from financial to quality to safety.
- Management Guidelines for Vendor Access
- Learn how this guideline and assessment tool, endorsed by AORN, can help both buyers
and sellers identify gaps in day-to-day practices while promoting industry consistency
for the management of vendor access programs.
- The New Product Introduction Management System
- This new tool is designed to manage and track new product requests that providers
receive, aiding both suppliers and providers in trying to improve communication about
an organization's decision process and status. The Association of Healthcare Value
Analysis Professionals collaborated with SMI in the tool's development.
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9:30 am
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10:00 am
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12:15 pm
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| Roundtable 1: Auto ID: Bar Coding and RFID |
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| Roundtable 2: Strategic Sourcing: Practices and Technologies |
| This luncheon roundtable discussion will focus on the strategies and technologies that supply chain professionals are employing to achieve greater cost savings in their medical/surgical and pharmaceutical portfolio. |
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| Roundtable 3: The Impact of Emerging Entities on the
Future of the Supply Chain |
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| Roundtable 4: Direct-to-Consumer Advertising |
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Natalia Wilson, M.D., MPH
Research Associate, Health Sector Supply Chain, Research Consortium, School of Health Management and Policy, W. P. Carey School of Business
Arizona State University
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1:15 pm
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- Discovering innovative supply chain management practices of alternate industries:
Applicable lessons from the automobile and grocery industries
- Alternate industry view of AutoID’s enhancing supply chain management
- Identifying the parallel benefits between patient safety and best practices
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2:15 pm
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- Case Study: St. Alexius Medical Center: “Best of Class�? in supply chain management
- Is medical technology expanding within your organization at a pace beyond your ability to keep up?
- Can you efficiently track these medical devices to every patient?
- Do you have the ability to adequately address patient safety?
- Does your supply chain have the ability to easily track medical supply and device recalls?
- Are you being challenged to reduce supply and medical device costs?
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3:15 pm
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- Highlighting the benefits of a UDI system
- Review of the improvements of device identification in adverse event reports and
facilitating device recalls
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Jay Crowley
Senior Advisor for Patient Safety, Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Food and Drug Administration
 View Biography
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4:15 pm
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