Podcast: Power Supply

Leveraging Value Across the Entire Healthcare Supply Chain

On this week’s episode of Power Supply Articles On-the-Go, Bob Yokl argues why no stone should be left unturned with your value analysis program in meeting your goal of generating a bottom line for your system and no commodity group should be excluded from your value analysis agenda: “One of the missteps we observe with…

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AHRMM Power Up Podcast – Episode 2

In the June 2023 AHRMM Power Up Podcast, Mike Schiller and Justin Poulin highlight trends, strategies and solutions from the field to advance the health care supply chain. In this episode, we delve into the issue of human trafficking and how it can be addressed in the healthcare supply chain. We also provide a preview…

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Rely On the Numbers: Don’t Be Dissuaded By Others

On this week’s episode of Power Supply Articles On-the-Go, Bob Yokl discusses why wrong data isn’t the end of the conversation: “There is no doubt about it, statistics, benchmarks, and analytics can be off base or even completely wrong, but from our experience they can easily be revised with new information, a few minutes of…

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Clinical Supply Utilization: Making the Savings Come to You!

Episodes NOW CEC APPROVED for AHRMM members! // Are your clinical teams utilizing the right product at the right cost, or are they using products that may have extra, but unnecessary features? With the constant challenges of supply disruptions, is it possible that the healthcare care supply chain teams may have actually over standardized products,…

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Fighting Dirty with Supply Chain and Social Media!

Episodes NOW CEC APPROVED for AHRMM members! // What happens when “Fighting Dirty” meets supply chain? Can data from Sterile Processing Departments (SPD) be used to help supply chain be more effective and help reduce risks AND costs? What role does social media and digital networking play in the healthcare supply chain? Join this week’s…

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Pulling Back the Curtain: Uncovering the Privacy Curtain Standard of Care

What’s the true cost of traditional privacy curtains in our hospitals? How many times do frontline providers handle privacy curtains during a regular shift? How often do clinicians touch theses curtains and then touch the patient? On this week’s Power Supply Vendor Spotlight™ with Karen Goelst, CEO & Founder of KleenEdge, we’re going to dive…

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AHRMM Power Up Podcast – Episode 1

This is the first in a series of AHRMM Power Up Podcasts with Mike Schiller and hosted by Justin Poulin, featured on the Power Supply podcast network. In this first episode we discussed: • High level Strategy – SCRC • Member Engagement – YPAC • On The Fringe Category – Vacutainer Tubes Tune in every…

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Passing the Sniff Test: How to Validate Supply Costs

Episodes NOW CEC APPROVED for AHRMM members! // What if 60-80 percent of items on your surgical preference cards were not actually needed? How much time does staff waste pulling supplies for cases that aren’t used, let alone the time it takes to return all these items back to the shelf? Can preference card optimization…

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Adopting New Technology: The Healing Powers of Supply Chain

Episodes NOW CEC APPROVED for AHRMM members! // How many emails do you get daily? How many meetings do you attend on a weekly basis? With all this “noise”, how can healthcare organizations and vendors work to collectively partner to be more effective in discussing, trialing, and implementing new technologies? With shortages of existing supplies…

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The Psychology of Sales: How Sellers Sell and Why Buyers Buy

Episodes NOW CEC APPROVED for AHRMM members! // How do successful sellers sell, and why do buyers buy? What is the psychology behind the selling and buying process? Is healthcare different from other industries when it comes to purchasing? Every hospital thinks that they are unique, but is the buying process the same from facility…

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