CDs Include: PLENARY SESSIONS

• Welcome / Alliance Update / Awards
• Keynote: The Art of Achievement – Tom Morris
• Performance Pays – Groundbreaking Evidence that Higher Quality Patient Care Reduces Cost - Richard Norling, Stephanie Alexander
• Future of Clinical Supply Costs Expert Panel
• Accountability – Quint Studer / Interactive Session
• Closing - Winners are Driven – Bobby Unser / Remarks

• Best Procedure Trays (BPT’s): A New Way of Looking at Your Custom Procedure Tray/Pack and Gown Needs
• Premier Foodservice Update
• Labor Management through Productivity, Budget, Position Control, Performance Appraisal and Premier Operations Advisor System Integration
• Burden of Venous Thromboembolism: Prevention and Quality of Care in the Inpatient Setting
• Achieving Supply Chain Efficiency and Patient Safety through the Adoption of Standards
• Outpatient Management of Chronic Disease Populations: The Chronic Care Model
• “Top Ten” Easy Savings in the Cath Lab and OR
• Yes, You Can Save Money by Reducing Blood Costs!

• Changes in Disaster Planning as a Result of Hurricanes Rita and Katrina
• Safety Data in Action: Mitigating Risk and Improving Quality and Getting Paid for It!
• Physician Preference Supplies and Implants: How Do You Compare?
• A Best Practice to Moderate Trends in Healthcare Costs while Increasing Employer and Employee Satisfaction
• On the Same Page: Engaging OR Staff in Cost Management
• Community Health Partners’ Recipe for Success and Strategies for Excellence
• Concurrent Documentation: Poised for Success in an Era of Public Reporting
• Controlling Supply Chain Costs at MBHS

• Streamlining Medication Reconciliation, Discharge Planning, and Quality Improvement
• Achieving Reliable Care in CABG, AMI and CHF
• Surgical Infection Prevention: Are We There Yet?
• Achieving Highest Quality: The Necessity of Both Infrastructure and Leadership
• Order Set Development Using Evidence Base Medicine: Experience in a Community and Academic Setting

• Lions and Lambs
• Climbing towards Performance Success
• Implementing Surgical Improvement
• The Little Hospital That Could: Improving Core Measures Success
• Using Data to Monitor Goals and Drive Performance Improvement

• Diversity: The Voice of Leadership
• Big Brother and Uncle are Watching: The Expanding Role of Physician Profiling
• Top Technology Trends
• Actualizing a Health System’s Palliative Care Mission into a Clinical/Quality/Data Management Care Approach
• Leadership: Weathering Storms

• Everything You Wanted to Know about Demo/Presentation Cooking
• Room Service from A to Z
• Where Will Tomorrow’s Foodservice Leaders Come From?

• Putting the Patient First: What Toyota Would Do if it Ran Your Hospital
• Lean Methods for Lean Times
• Using Lean Tools to Implement a Rapid Response Team and Improve Hand Hygiene Practices
• A Six Sigma Approach to Improving ICU Throughput

• Achieving Clinical and Operational Performance Excellence: The Cost of Poor Quality
• Improving Patient Flow: An End to End Process from the Patient Perspective
• Improving Patient Throughput in Emergency Departments and the Hospitals
• Staffing to Nursing Care Model but Can’t Meet Flex Budget? How to Make ends Meet
• Finance and Clinicians: Partnering for Success

• Hospital Pharmaceutical Expense: Where Does the Money Go?
• The Role of Hospital Executives in Managing Rising Drug Expense
• Integrating Labor and Supply Expense Benchmarks in Managing the Pharmacy Budget
• Removing over $2 Million from the Bottom Line Through Drug Use Management
• Critical Enablers in Managing Rising Drug Expense

• Managing Medical Device Hazards and Recalls
• Bundle Health: Spread the Wealth
• The RAPID Implementation of a Rapid Response Team?
• Developing the Role of the Unit Based Patient Safety Officer
• Innovation in Perinatal Care: Learnings from Phase II of the Premier/IHI Perinatal Innovation Workgroup

• Strength in Partnerships: $40 Million in Savings
• Leveraging Competitive Healthcare Providers’ Supply Chain Efforts
• Partnering for Supply Chain Cost Reduction
• Diversity Sourcing: The ABCs
• How Do You Make a Vendor Relationship a Partner?

• Moving Supply Chain Management to the Next Level: A Case Study of a Successful Point of Use Technology System Implementation
• Contract Law Basics
• $1.2 Million in Commodity Savings: The Good, the Bad and the Downright Ridiculous
• Stemming the Flow of Implant Expense: Implementation of a Business Process within the Material Management System for Physician Preference Implants
• Overcoming the Challenges of Going Digital

• Blood Conservation: Effective Use of a Scarce Resource
• Strategies for Managing Your Cardiology Service Line
• Strategic Capital Planning for Imaging
• Running for Results: Is it a Marathon or a Sprint?
• Driving for Show, Putting for Dough: The Eight-Year Journey of a Multi-Hospital System

• Challenges in Reducing Implants Cost
• Strategy and Culture: Roadmap to Orthopedic Savings
• How’s Your Backbone? Monitoring and Measuring Spinal Fusion Implant Costs and Utilization
• Delivering Supply Chain Savings in Obstetrics

• Using Technology to Improve Safety
• Making the Most of What You Have: How to Extend the Capabilities of Your Existing MMIS
• IT Implementation in the Emergency Department
• Exchanging Electronic Patient Data within a Region: A Real-Life RHIO

• Developing the Leader for Today and Tomorrow: Creating a Successful In-House Leadership College
• Habit Patterns of Excellence: Using the 21 Day Challenge to Achieve Your Full Leadership Potential
• Transforming an Organization’s Culture Through HR Automation
• Do You Have the Winning Balance: Diverse Demographics and Becoming an Employer of Choice Organization