New resiliency collaborative; Michigan healthcare seeks bailout; Finley joins SMM; plus Jobs!

November 18, 2022

Hello NAW Subscribers -

I hope you like this issue of National Accounts Weekly.

Sincerely,

John Pritchard

President of ANAE

Publisher of The Journal of Healthcare Contracting (JHC)

Building Resiliency

A new nonprofit healthcare supply chain association aims to champion standards and best practices.

From Jesse Schafer’s vantage point as a senior manager of business continuity at the Mayo Clinic, supply chain resiliency is keenly needed in healthcare. “It’s a complex issue too difficult to solve individually,” he said. “There are cultural, operational, and economic barriers.”

When asked what’s missing in the supply chain regarding resiliency and transparency, Schafer said standards, incentives, and culture.

“There are too many solutions in the market. As such, trading partners cannot scale nor sustain the approach.”
“Historically, price drives purchasing decisions. In a post pandemic world, providers are more often seeking to evaluate supplier resiliency as a key factor in sourcing decisions.”
“There is a lack of trust when sharing resiliency data between trading partners, and a corresponding lack of clarity in how the data will be used.”

To help break down those gaps, a group of healthcare supply chain provider and supplier stakeholders recently formed the Healthcare Industry Resilience Collaborative (HIRC), a nonprofit healthcare supply chain association that champions standards and best practices in supply chain resiliency.

Putting ‘Home’ in the Nursing Home

For person-centered care, home-like settings are needed, but financing is elusive

To call something “imperative” means it is urgently needed. But merely calling something “imperative” won’t necessarily make it happen. For example, the urgent need to reform how nursing home care is financed, delivered and regulated may be imperative, but financing substantial improvements in the nursing home environment – including bricks-and-mortar changes, such as private rooms and easy outdoor access for residents – is the tough part.

This spring, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) released a 350-page report titled, “The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality: Honoring Our Commitment to Residents, Families, and Staff.”

Prioritizing Primary Care

Research shows the more that is invested in primary care, the better health outcomes will be.

As director of the Robert Graham Center – part of the research division of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) – Dr. Yalda Jabbarpour fields a lot of questions from primary care doctors. For instance, during the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, she was hearing a lot of the same questions: “Why aren’t primary care doctors getting more of the vaccine? We thought primary care offices were the people who traditionally vaccinated the public rather than retail clinics or the hospitals.”

“We said, ‘Yes, anecdotally you feel that. But let’s look at the research.’”

Katherine Finley joins Share Moving Media as VP of Sales, IDN Directory

We are pleased to announce that Katherine Finley has joined Share Moving Media as Vice President of Sales, IDN Directory, effective Nov. 15.

Katherine has been in healthcare sales for more than 20 years, previously serving MDSI as director of corporate accounts for the MAX. She has worked for Konica Minolta for eight years on national accounts, managed a large GPO, served as a vice president of healthcare solutions for a systems integrator as well as worked for Disney and Proctor & Gamble Pharmaceuticals.

She managed large IDN accounts at the national account level and managed one of the largest GPOs at the corporate level, representing the Primary Imaging Portfolio and Precision Medicine Platform offered by KMHA. Stakeholders included C-suite executives and top clinical leadership at Personalized Medicine and Cancer Institutes.

In 2014, Katherine was appointed by then South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and the South Carolina Commissioner of Department of Disability and Special Needs to act as a liaison for the Greenwood Genetic Center. Katherine’s certifications include Certified Cybersecurity Architect (CCSA) and Certified HIPAA Professional (CHP).

She resides in Tega Cay, S.C., with her husband David.

HealthTrust member hospitals part of top health systems

By Ed Jones

President/CEO, HealthTrust

Publisher, The Source Magazine

The onslaught of challenges endured by health systems throughout the U.S. over the last two years is well documented. Organizations are still dealing with the aftermath of the pandemic and its never-before-seen impact on staffing and the disruption to supply chains, businesses and life in general. Through it all, providers rose to the occasion and met the challenges head on. I am proud to share that a number of our distinguished HealthTrust members have made the list of the Fortune/Merative 15 Top Health Systems and the 100 Top Hospitals list.

Michigan healthcare seeks bailout amid financial pressures, RSV surge

Growing financial pressures and dwindling beds have caused Michigan’s healthcare industry to seek a bailout amidst a surge in RSV cases.

John Krasinski, director of communications for the Michigan Health and Hospital Association, told Crain’s Detroit Business that the association is “pursuing unallocated American Rescue Plan Act funds and an allocation from the state general fund to stabilize the industry.”

Please join us for ANAE’s Supply Chain Leader webinar with Carl Tietjen of the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC).

John Pritchard interviews top supply chain executives in 45-minute segments covering their top priorities, how their supply chain is structured and what suppliers can do to best to support the health systems and work with them more effectively.

Dec. 1, 2 p.m. ET - Carl Tietjen, AVP, Purchasing and Supply Chain, University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC)

Interested in our corporate membership packages?

Contact Anna McCormick at amccormick@sharemovingmedia.com.

Sg2 launches new tool to drive physician engagement

Sg2, a Vizient company, announced the launch of Provider Connections, an analytics solution to help healthcare organizations improve patient care coordination through greater physician engagement and network optimization. Every year physician referrals made outside of network can cost healthcare organizations hundreds of millions of dollars. Sg2 Provider Connections takes direct aim at network leakage to save healthcare organizations money.

Provider Connections is a tablet-enabled, claims-based analytics application that assists healthcare organizations in identifying physician relationship opportunities and executing referral pattern initiatives. It integrates all-payer claims data for each market, includes a proprietary methodology to help organizations quantify the financial impact of leakage and assists with network integrity improvement efforts.

Meditech, Google Health partner on clinician search tool

Meditech and Google Health have advanced their search and summarization collaboration to the next phase, with DCH Health System (Tuscaloosa, AL) and Mile Bluff Medical Center (Mauston, WI) signing as early adopters of their integrated solution. The collaboration was announced earlier this year and will embed the Google Health search and summarization capabilities directly within the clinical workflow of the Expanse EHR.

Oracle Cerner, Labcorp to manage hospital labs in 10 states

Oracle Cerner and Labcorp have formed a new relationship to streamline lab operations for one of the nation’s leading nonprofit Catholic health systems.

Labcorp purchased select assets of the health system’s outreach laboratory business and will manage its hospital-based laboratories in 10 states. Cerner’s laboratory information system (LIS) will help Labcorp centralize operations and streamline processes within the hospital-based labs to enhance patient care and improve lab efficiency.