MARCH 2010 Volume 34, No. 3
DEPARTMENTS
People, Places, Processes & Products that Influence the Supply Chain
10 The missing links between supply chain data,
NEWS
EHR/EMR software 6 Newswire/Fast Stats
As the healthcare supply chain industry grapples
10 Supply Chain - EHR/EMR Links
with preparing for a few looming deadlines during
the next few years involving data standards adop-
16 Up Close
Bar Coding: Hurdles at the starting block
tion, clinicians face some deadlines of their own
about electronic health/medical records that are a
little farther out. Questions remain about how the
INFECTION PREVENTION
two might be connected for optimal efficiency and
22 Patient Temperature Management
patient care.
22 Infection Control Update
22 Normothermia measure heats
up patient temperature
CS CONNECTION
management 30 Self Study Series
How do I Flash Thee …
CONTENTS
A new Surgical
36 Reprocessing
Care Improvement Project measure on surgery pa-
tients with perioperative temperature management
36 Outpatient Connection
was adopted recently by the Centers for Medicare 44 CS Solutions
and Medicaid Services (CMS) that comes with an in-
Cleaning verification; what to do after
centive to do better. Facilities that observe the new normo-
a steam outage; cleaning channeled
thermia measure successfully will reap a financial reward;
medical devices
those that don’t will suffer financially. 46 IAHCSMM Viewpoint
36 Budget- and eco-savvy hospitals boost reprocessing
OPERATING ROOM
compliance
Cover photo courtesy
48 2010 Surgical Instrument Guide
Ascent Healthcare Solutions
Story .......................................... 48
Amid soaring healthcare delivery and supply costs
Products & Services Chart.......... 54
and a lingering recession it should come as no sur-
prise that single-use device reprocessing is play-
PRODUCTS & SERVICES
ing a larger role in expense management efforts.
Despite more stringent regulations within the last
60 AORN/HIMSS Vendor Spotlights
decade, reusing SUDs has been gaining even more
63 New Products
momentum.
64 Automated Payment Strategies
66 What Works
48 2010 Surgical
To err is human
Instruments Guide
PEOPLE & OPINIONS
Healthcare Purchasing News’ annual Sur-
gical Instruments Guide offers relevant
4 Fast Foreward
information for sourcing potential sup-
68 Newsmaker
pliers and service providers. Evaluating How can value analysis help my hospital?
instrument manufacturers and product quality, and selecting the optimal devices and
by James Russell, RN-BC, MBA
cost-effectively maintaining their usefulness, can be monumental tasks if you don’t have
68 Worth Repeating
HPN’s convenient annual Guide on your desk for help all year long.
70 Having My Say
64 Match Game ’10: Automated payment
Automating AP
seekers seeing stars
by Thayer Stewart
Ask a supply chain manager to reveal the top 5 battles he or she must
72 Letters
fight on a daily basis and you’ll likely hear tall tales about demand- 74 Baseline
ing surgeons, impatient nurses and arrogant supplier reps. But fric-
Rise of the Stepford professionals
tion with finance people simmer just outside the obvious three,
by Fred W. Crans
particularly with accounts payable and the revenue cycle managers.
76 Back Talk
What separates supply chain operations?
by David S. Kaczmarek
75 Advertiser Index/Classified
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