CD-ROMs Include:
PLENARY SESSIONS

• Welcome / High Value Healthcare: Roadmap to the Future – Susan DeVore, Richard A. Norling
• Keynote: “Push It Up!” – Rob “Waldo” Waldman
• A Spotlight on Safely Reducing Costs – Mike Alkire
• The Advance of P4P: Understanding the Evolving P4P Models and Implications on Efficiency of Care Delivery – Stephanie Alexander
• If Disney Ran Your Hospital – Fred Lee
• Be Enlightened: Keeping Patients at the Center of Care – Linda Ellerbee
• Closing – Motivating for Success – Tony Dungy

• Suppliers Meeting with Continuum of Care
• Tools for Cost Savings Through CRM Device Utilization
• Construction Program Overview
• My Spend User Group Kickoff
• Washington Update
• Value Analysis
• Implementing a Credit Card Payment Program with Vendors
• Current Challenges Influencing Pharmaceutical Purchasing (supplier)
• Revolutionary Pain Management
• OB Initiative

• Healthcare Performance Improvement
• Translating Research into Action: Use of Premier Perspective
• Journey to Excellence: Using Evidence-Based Medicine and P4P Indicators to Improve Outcomes
• Put on Your “Can-Do” Hat: Creating a Culture Focused on Solutions and Exceptional Results
• Achieving Top Decile Performance in an Academic Medical Center
• Collaboration of Case Management and Performance Improvement: Advancing Clinical and Operational Improvement
• Organizing for Performance: Successful Strategies for Creating a Quality Improvement Infrastructure

• Evaluating the Effectiveness of Rapid Response Teams
• Up-Front with Vaccinations
• Hospitals That Do It Right: Top Performers in Heart Failure
• Implementing Medication Administration System Using Bar Coding
• Achieving Low Mortality and Low Morbidity in a High-Volume Bariatric Center

• Healthcare Associated Infections: Why Aggressively Addressing Them is Now an Imperative
• Getting Back to Basics: Reducing Cardiac Surgical Site Infections
• Surgical Infection Prevention: Achieving and Sustaining Top Performance
• Sepsis: Putting the Pieces Together
• Winning the War Against Healthcare Associated Infections in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

• GPO 101: How to Market the Value of a GPO Affiliation to a Continuum of Care Facility
• Optimizing the Long-Term Care Opportunity
• Identifying and Addressing Safety Issues for Residents and Staff in a Long-Term Care Setting
• Everything You Want – and Need – to Know About the Surgery Center Market

• Food Trends
• Healthy and Profitable Café Concepts
• How To Successfully Motivate and Reward Foodservice Employees

• Linking Premier Organizational Effectiveness Tools to Advance the Health System’s Mission
• Overcrowded EDs May Need More Patients, Not Fewer
• Organizational Imperative: Utilizing Operations Outlook Data to Improve Operating Margins
• Promoting Diversity in Hospital Leadership
• Come On and Play: Pursuit of Excellence Through a Quality Playground

• Hurricanes, Influenza Pandemic, Mass Blackouts: Are You Prepared?
• Putting the Patient First: Implementing Lean Thinking in Healthcare
• Revolutionizing Your Product Selection Process
• Improving Quality and Decreasing Costs: Success Through Clinical Collaboration

• Time is Muscle: Successful CV Process Improvement
• The Great Roundup: Corralling Solutions and Preventing Stampedes in the Emergency Department
• A Research Project: Using Telemedicine to Encourage Timely Early Discharge for Internal Medicine Patients
• Enhancing Performance Excellence in the Emergency Department: A Case Study

• Understanding the Hospital Pharmacy Budget: A Primer for the CFO
• How Can the Senior Executive Reduce Hospital Drug Expense?
• Are You Getting Paid for Oncology Medications?
• What is 340B and Why Do So Many Hospitals Save Money Using It To Purchase Drugs?
• Are You Getting the Most From Your Pharmacy Contracts?

• The Role of the Physician Advisor in an Efficient Case Management Program
• The Real Benefits of Being an Energy Star Facility
• Empowering Excellence: Transformational Change Leads to Labor Management Effectiveness
• Innovative Communication and Training to Foster Sustained Change
• Show Me the Money: A Roadmap to Increase Patient Financial Responsibility in the Emergency Room

• Quality, Risk, Safety, Compliance: Where Do the Pieces Fit?
• In-Situ Simulation of Obstetric Emergencies: Improving Medical Systems and Teams
• Code Pink: Maternal Hemorrhage – Making Every Minute Count
• Measuring Mental Health Quality: From Mission Impossible to Mission Possible

• A Healing Environment: Safer Design, Materials and Products
• Reducing Risk of Improper Patient Identification Through Culture Change
• Environmentally Responsible Healthcare Waste Management
• Reusable Sharps Containers: A Waste Reduction and Worker Safety Strategy

• Designing and Sustaining a Physician-Led Technology Assessment Committee
• Enabling Technologies are in the Driver’s Seat
• Developing and Implementing Vendor Management Policies: Valuable Lessons from the Front Door
• Supply Chain Analytics and the Impact on Workflow
• Working with Vendors to Reduce Costs Through Central Sterile

• Capitated Pricing: If It Has a Price, Put a Lid on It
• Not the Same Old Patch and Pack: Standardizing Cath Lab Custom Packs
• Winning the Cardiac Contracting Game
• Northeast Spine Education Forum: A Collaboration

• $500,000 Savings in Office Supplies? You Bethcha!
• The Search for Supply Chain Savings
• Clinical Resource Management in Small-to-Medium Hospitals
• Cutting Linen Expenses with a Doubled-Edged Sword: Uncovering Savings in an Overlooked Area

• Considering Implementation of RFID? Do It Right the First Time!
• Healthcare Standards for Medical Devices: Current Status and Comparison to Leading Industries
• Scanning and Robotics: No Longer “Lost in Space”
• The Perfect Storm: High-Tech Meets High-Touch

• Retaining Institutional Knowledge and Leveraging Best Practices in an Integrated Healthcare Delivery System
• Patients and Partners First!: Culture Change at Southcoast Health System
• Designing and Implementing a Best Practice HR Service Model
• Attracting and Sustaining Healthcare Talent: Successful Strategies for Recruitment and Retention
• Preparing Leaders for Success: World-Class Leadership Orientation Provides the Foundation for Productive, Engaged, and Accountable Leaders