The AHRMM Stance on Comparative Effectiveness Research [CER]

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By Adam Higman

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In today’s hospital setting, data and healthcare information is the most accessible it has ever been making it necessary for healthcare professionals to assess and evaluate its accuracy.  Additionally, the healthcare supply chain is filled with “me-too” products with often dubious improvements in clinical efficacy over competitive and legacy products.

The AHRMM Issues & Legislative Committee

AHRMM’s Issues & Legislative Committee has advocated the usage of Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) to offer substantial, evidence-based data to aid healthcare organizations in their purchasing decisions.  CER data includes unbiased conclusions regarding healthcare products and supplies, after having compared the advantages, usefulness, and possible harm of numerous pharmaceuticals, medical devices, equipment, surgical procedures, and tests for specific disease states and treatments of care.

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Goals

By utilizing the CER-provided data, materials management professionals can :

  • Warrant top-performing Value Analysis Committees
  • Verify the cost-effectiveness and ability of salvaging “single use items”
  • Regulate Medical/Surgical products
  • Capitalize information technology efforts to decrease expenditures and inaccuracies
  • Change supplies, services, and technologies to lower budget-friendly, clinically-acceptable options that endure needed specifications
  • Convert to supplies, services, and technologies that produce better patient outcomes at a lower total cost that meets needed specifications
  • Prioritize capital expenditures
  • Use third-party benchmarking tools to get the most out of resources 2

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Understanding Global Location Numbers Used in Healthcare Today

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Defining Global Location Numbers in Hospital Supply Chain Management

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By Kristin Spenik and Jerzy Kaczor

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Global Location Numbers (GLNs) are widely used throughout healthcare supply chain groups.

The Dictionary of Health Information Technology and Security defines a GLN as a unique, 13-digit number that links the name, industry, and address of a particular item that pinpoints the “legal, functional, or physical location within a business or organizational entity”, in particular hospitals and healthcare organizations.

  • Legal: Hospitals, healthcare organizations, distributors, suppliers, freight carriers, etc.
  • Functional: Specific departments within legal entities, i.e. purchasing departments, nursing stations, wards, etc. in hospitals
  • Physical: Hospital rooms, hospital wings, cabinets, shelving units, delivery points, loading docks, warehouses, etc.

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According to the Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management, the premier organization for healthcare supply chain professionals, global locations numbers can recover your facility’s revenue stream, enhance the accuracy of documenting Group Purchasing Organization [GPO] sales, and end the use “of single purpose proprietary supplier numbers”.

The Objective

The ultimate objective is getting everyone involved in the supply chain process to use identical numbers.

For instance, if the GPO communicates to the manufacturer that your hospital utilizes a specific GLN, then it is more likely that the manufacturer will associate the hospital’s materials and supplies with the correct GPO contract price.

In addition, if distributors utilize GLNs along with manufacturers and producers to determine the manufacturer’s price that was given, the hospital will likely secure the correct rate when purchasing supplies directly from distributors.

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