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2006 Breakthrough Conference and Exhibition (1)
2006 Breakthrough Conference and Exhibition (2)
2006 Breakthrough Conference and Exhibition (3)
2006 Breakthrough Conference and Exhibition (4)
2006 Breakthrough Conference and Exhibition (5)
2006 Breakthrough Conference and Exhibition (6)
2006 Breakthrough Conference and Exhibition (7)
2006 Breakthrough Conference and Exhibition (8)
2006 Breakthrough Conference and Exhibition (9)

• Welcome / Alliance Update / Awards
• Entire 2006 Breakthrough Conference and Exhibition on 2 MP3 CD-ROMs
• Complete Set of 90 Audio CDs
• Accountability
• Keynote: The Art of Achievement
• Future of Clinical Supply Costs
• Performance Pays – Groundbreaking Evidence that Higher Quality Patient Care Reduces Cost
• Closing - Winners are Driven
• 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 MBH
• CLA-1 Streamlining Medication Reconciliation, Discharge Planning, and Quality Improvement
• CLA-2 Achieving Reliable Care in CABG, AMI and CHF
• CLA-3 Surgical Infection Prevention: Are We There Yet?
• CLA-4 Achieving Highest Quality: The Necessity of Both Infrastructure and Leadership
• CLA-5 Order Set Development Using Evidence Base Medicine: Experience in a Community and Academic Setting
• CLB-1 Lions and Lambs
• CLB-2 Climbing towards Performance Success
• CLB-3 Implementing Surgical Improvement
• CLB-4 The Little Hospital That Could: Improving Core Measures Success
• CLB-5 Using Data to Monitor Goals and Drive Performance Improvement
• EX-1 Diversity: The Voice of Leadership
• EX-2 Big Brother and Uncle are Watching: The Expanding Role of Physician Profiling
• EX-3 Top Technology Trends
• EX-4 Actualizing a Health System’s Palliative Care Mission into a Clinical/Quality/Data Management Care Approach
• EX-5 Leadership: Weathering Storms
• FS-1,2 Everything You Wanted to Know about Demo/Presentation Cooking
• FS-3,4 Room Service from A to Z
• FS-5 Where Will Tomorrow’s Foodservice Leaders Come From?
• LM-1 Putting the Patient First: What Toyota Would Do if it Ran Your Hospital
• LM-2 Lean methods for lean times
• LM-3 Using Lean Tools to Implement a Rapid Response Team and Improve Hand Hygiene Practices
• LM-4 A Six Sigma Approach to Improving ICU Throughput
• OPS-1 Achieving Clinical and Operational Performance Excellence: The Cost of Poor Quality
• OPS-2 Improving Patient Flow: An End to End Process from the Patient Perspective
• OPS-3 Improving Patient Throughput in Emergency Departments and the Hospitals
• OPS-4 Staffing to Nursing Care Model but Can’t Meet Flex Budget? How to Make ends Meet
• OPS-5 Finance and Clinicians: Partnering for Success
• PS-1 Hospital Pharmaceutical Expense: Where Does the Money Go?
• PS-2 The Role of Hospital Executives in Managing Rising Drug Expense
• PS-3 Integrating Labor and Supply Expense Benchmarks in Managing the Pharmacy Budget
• PS-4 Removing over $2 Million from the Bottom Line Through Drug Use Management
• PS-5 Critical Enablers in Managing Rising Drug Expense
• SF-1 Managing Medical Device Hazards and Recalls
• SF-2 Bundle Health: Spread the Wealth
• SF-3 The RAPID Implementation of a Rapid Response Team?
• SF-4 Developing the Role of the Unit Based Patient Safety Officer
• SF-5 Innovation in Perinatal Care: Learnings from Phase II of the Premier/IHI Perinatal Innovation Workgroup
• SCA-1 Strength in Partnerships: $40 Million in Savings
• SCA-2 Leveraging Competitive Healthcare Providers’ Supply Chain Efforts
• SCA-3 Partnering for Supply Chain Cost Reduction
• SCA-4 Diversity Sourcing: The ABCs
• SCA-5 How Do You Make a Vendor Relationship a Partner?
• SCB-1 Moving Supply Chain Management to the Next Level: A Case Study of a Successful Point of Use Technology System Implementation
• SCB-2 Contract Law Basics
• SCB-3 $1.2 Million in Commodity Savings: The Good, the Bad and the Downright Ridiculous
• SCB-4 Stemming the Flow of Implant Expense: Implementation of a Business Process within the Material Management System for Physician Preference Implants
• SCB-5 Overcoming the Challenges of Going Digital
• SCC-1 Blood Conservation: Effective Use of a Scarce Resource
• SCC-2 Strategies for Managing Your Cardiology Service Line
• SCC-3 Strategic Capital Planning for Imaging
• SCC-4 Running for Results: Is it a Marathon or a Sprint?
• SCC-5 Driving for Show, Putting for Dough: The Eight-Year Journey of a Multi-Hospital System
• SCD-1 Challenges in Reducing Implants Cost
• SCD-2 Strategy and Culture: Roadmap to Orthopedic Savings
• SCD-3 How’s Your Backbone? Monitoring and Measuring Spinal Fusion Implant Costs and Utilization
• SCD-4 Delivering Supply Chain Savings in Obstetrics
• TE-1 Using Technology to Improve Safety
• TE-2 Making the Most of What You Have: How to Extend the Capabilities of Your Existing MMIS
• TE-3 IT Implementation in the Emergency Department
• TE-4 Exchanging Electronic Patient Data within a Region: A Real-Life RHIO
• WE-1 Developing the Leader for Today and Tomorrow: Creating a Successful In-House Leadership College
• WE-2 Habit Patterns of Excellence: Using the 21 Day Challenge to Achieve Your Full Leadership Potential
• WE-3 Transforming an Organization’s Culture Through HR Automation
• WE-4 Do You Have the Winning Balance: Diverse Demographics and Becoming an Employer of Choice Organization

2007 BREAKTHROUGH CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION (1)
2007 BREAKTHROUGH CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION (2)
2007 BREAKTHROUGH CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION (3)
2007 BREAKTHROUGH CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION (4)
2007 BREAKTHROUGH CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION (5)
2007 BREAKTHROUGH CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION (6)
2007 BREAKTHROUGH CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION (7)
2007 BREAKTHROUGH CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION (8)
2007 BREAKTHROUGH CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION (9)
2007 BREAKTHROUGH CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION (10)

• Entire 2007 Breakthrough Conference And Exhibition on 2 MP3 CD-ROMs
• Keynote: “Push It Up!”
• Entire 2007 Breakthrough Conference And Exhibition on 95 Audio CDs
• Welcome / High Value Healthcare: Roadmap to the Future
• A Spotlight on Safely Reducing Costs
• The Advance of P4P: Understanding the Evolving P4P Models and Implications on Efficiency of Care Delivery
• If Disney Ran Your Hospital
• Be Enlightened: Keeping Patients at the Center of Care
• Closing – Motivating for Success
• 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

Eagle Forum

Eagle Council XXXV (1)
Eagle Council XXXV (2)

• Complete Set of 13 Audio CDs
• Complete Set of 13 Cassettes
• Congressional Constitutional Caucus / The Cult of Multiculturalism
• Let’s Enforce Immigration Law / English Must Be Our Language
• The Health Care Battle Isn’t Over / Presentation of Fulltime Homemaker Award
• American Sovereignty vs. North American Union
• History Textbooks V. American Patriots / Stem Cell Research: Putting Our Eggs in the Wrong Basket / Eye-Witness Report on the NEA Convention
• Are the Gays Winning the Battle in Public Schools? / Saving Marriage
• State of Emergency
• Don’t Be Fooled by Politically Incorrect Science / Terrible Terrorism and Atomic Iran
• Should America Divorce the UN?
• Minutemen at the Border / The Foreign Corridor Through Middle America / Did You Know Kansas City Is a Port?
• How to Stop Supremacist Judges
• Doing the Impossible Corralling Campus Conservative Women / Why Are Bad Books in Schools? / Framing the Debate on Property Rights / Why Washington Judges Rejected Same-Sex Marriage
• Passing the Baton to the Next Generation

Collegians Summit

• Entire Eagle Forum Collegians Summit on 1 MP3 CD-ROM

36th Annual Leadership Conference (1)
36th Annual Leadership Conference (2)

• Entire 36th Annual Leadership Conference on 13 Audio CDs or Audio Cassettes
• What our Enemies Say About America / Freedomnomics: Rebutting Half-Baked Theories
• The Late Great U.S.A.: Merger with Mexico and Canada / Which Is The Religion of Peace: Christianity or Islam?
• Multiculturalism vs. Americanism
• Presentation of Fulltime Homemaker Award to Shirley Boone / Preserving America’s Independence
• Confronting Evil—God’s Power of Truth / The Feminists Title IX Attack on Males
• Is Hillarycare Back on the U.S. Agenda? / Reports from State Capitols
• Are Republican Platforms Worth Fighting About?
• Who’s Financing Middle East Studies? / What You Need to Know About the Qur’an
• How to Prevent Stealing the 2008 Elections
• Let’s Enforce Our Immigration Laws / Disease Is a Costly Import / What States Can Do To Stop Illegal Aliens
• What’s at Stake in 2008?
• Overcoming the Odds: Faith 2 Action
• Are Republican Platforms Worth Fighting About? DVD

Lean Accounting Summit

Bridging the Gap Between Lean and Accounting (1)
Bridging the Gap Between Lean and Accounting (2)
Bridging the Gap Between Lean and Accounting (3)
Bridging the Gap Between Lean and Accounting (4)

• Complete Set of 29 Audio CDs
• The State of Lean and the Challenge of Lean Accounting
• Ultra-Lean Accounting
• Creative Work Life
• Closing General Session
• Solving the Standard Costing Problem: Value Stream Costing
• Lean and Accounting: The Role of the CEO and CFO
• Lean Performance Measurement: The New Internal Control System for the Lean Company
• Why Successful Lean Implementations Can Punish the P & L
• Whoa! My World Changed
• Using Rolling Forecasts to begin Lean Planning
• Extending Lean Thinking to the Office
• The Three Attributes of Good Measurement – How Do Your Measurements Stack Up?
• Strategy Deployment: The Guiding Compass of Hoshin Kanri
• The Missing Link in Performance Improvement Initiatives – Financial Impact
• Sarbanes – Year 2: Is it Complementing or Destroying Lean?
• Target Costing: The Front End of Lean Accounting
• Lean X-Ray Vision: The Importance of Deep Knowledge of Current Reality
• The Lean Economic Model Applying the Toyota Profit = Price – Cost Principle to Achieve Increased Revenue, Greater Profits, and Stable Employment
• Seeing David in the Stone: Find and Seize Great Opportunities Using 12 Actions Mastered by 70 Highly Successful Leaders
• Economies of Scale are Dead: Right-Sizing for Effective Cost Management and Operations
• Business Process Improvement and Accounting Simplification
• Lean Logistics and the Lean Supply Chain
• Lean System Design to Overcome Implementation Barriers
• Part 1 – Introducing Lean Accounting – Three Company Case Studies
• Part 2 – Introducing Lean Accounting – Three Company Case Studies
• Lean by the Numbers
• #1. Performance Measure and Metrics
• #2. Translating Improvement into Dollars
• #3. Rolling Out Lean Accounting in Your Company
• Keynote Presentations
• Lean Accounting 101
• Advanced Lean Accounting
• Lean and Lean Accounting Strategy