It is hard to believe that one year has already passed since we began facing the challenges brought by COVID-19. AHVAP remains devoted to its members and affiliates by bringing forth continuous value analysis materials and educational sessions to support the evolution of the Value Analysis culture. Our eight AHVAP Committees are strong, excited and dedicated more than ever to ensure that Value Analysis Professionals are obtaining the greatest value for their membership. We have learned a tremendous amount over this past year, and it has brought our Value Analysis Community even closer together.
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Planning for 2021 AHVAP Annual Conference and Supplier Showcase live event in Scottsdale, Arizona, October 27-29, 2021 continues. The exciting theme “360° Change: Developing a Resilient Culture” will drive our entire conference to include our Keynote presentations.
Plan to join other VA Professionals in Scottsdale, Arizona. to share your experiences and key learnings that can propel value analysis and the healthcare industry into a better future. Selection Criteria will be based on alignment with our AHVAP conference Theme, Value Analysis pillars - Governance, Value Analysis Methodology, Professionalism/Business Ethics & Finance, and overall creativity without bias or conflict of interest.
AHVAP Conference Committee is busy finalizing the full program and will have updates in the coming weeks. Also look for information for conference registration, hotel reservations and for exciting Supplier Expo Booth and Sponsorship sign up information.
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W.L. Gore, Association of Healthcare Value Analysts Professionals (AHVAP) and Arizona State University (ASU) are excited to bring you an enlightening white paper, developed from the proceedings of the 2019 “Building New Pathways for Value-Based Healthcare Summit.” The white paper outlines key take-aways from the summit with direct connects to the current pandemic and beyond. This unique collaboration between Gore, AHVAP and ASU exemplifies how innovation and collaboration can help disrupt the status quo and improve our healthcare system from within.”
Access and download the White Paper today: https://www.ahvap.org/page/white_paper
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The IBEC Committee continues to be active with many great collaborative opportunities with our supplier partners and professional organizations. Through IBEC agreements, AHVAP provides opportunities for reciprocal education sharing with healthcare suppliers, professional organizations, institutes and academia with the goal to educate the broader healthcare industry to the tenets of value analysis.
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April 7 – “How Providers Keep Patient Centric Outcomes the Focus of Drug and Supply Decisions” with guests:
Laura L. Polson, BSN, RN-BC, CVAHP, AHVAP Immediate Past President, System Services Director, Clinical Quality Value Analysis Baptist Healthcare (KY,IN)
Thomas Matanich, MBA, PMP, Contract Manager-Pharmacy, Supply Chain Services, Baptist Health (KY,IN)
Scot T. Zernick BS, Director, Value Analysis & Strategic Sourcing, Penn State Health, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA
April 21- “Driving Value: A Supply Chain, Value Analysis, & Physician Innovation Pilot Leads to Real Time Cost, Quality & Outcomes” with guests from McLeod Health, Florence, SC:
Michael Rose MD, Senior VP and Chief Innovation Officer, Anesthesiologist
Patrick Denton MD, Chairman of Surgery , Medical Director Sports Medicine, Orthopedic Surgeon
Boyd BJ McCluskey BS, AHVAP SE Region District 7 Representative and Director of Resource Optimization
Sign up today for these and upcoming podcasts. Register for series here.
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There are wise, experienced and knowledgeable professionals out there who can work with you to create compelling messaging and pricing strategies specifically tailored to an individual organization. No more “one-size-fits-all” approaches; they’re so yesteryear. Most early-stage companies, and even mid-size companies, simply don’t have the players on their bench that have this type of specific insight about every medical system.
If you want to take a deeper dive into the best practices of Value Analysis, check out Med Tech Gurus Episode #16 with Excelerant Consulting’s Barbara Strain. In this episode, Barbara shares the Value Analysis playbook and key “best practices”.
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You may have seen words like this on a website selling a medical device in the United States, sometimes even with an FDA logo:
- FDA Registered
- FDA Certified
- FDA Registration Certificate
Such words may be used to mislead you. Is that the same thing as FDA approved, FDA cleared, or FDA authorized? The short answer is NO. Here's why.
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NBC News
U.S. vaccination efforts have gotten a boost, thanks to increased supply. The COVID-19 vaccination campaign, which reached single-day highs in recent weeks, has been boosted by drastically increased production from the three approved vaccine manufacturers, an NBC News analysis of Department of Health and Human Services data shows. As pharmaceutical companies pump out more vials, the federal government doles out some of the doses directly to states, various pharmacy programs and even the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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Bloomberg Businessweek
A year ago, on Friday, March 13, about 50 government officials and experts met for the first time to talk about a crucial problem: how to test more Americans to determine if they were infected with the novel coronavirus. Jared Kushner stopped by; Mike Pence made an appearance later that weekend. SARS-CoV-2 had spread to more than a hundred countries — Tom Hanks had been infected in Australia—and the death toll in the U.S. was expected to reach as high as 250,000.
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NPR
Health care systems endured a stress test like no other over the past year as COVID-19 patients filled up hospital beds and intensive care units. Health care workers pleaded with the public to "flatten the curve," yet each surge in 2020 was worse than the next. Now two recent studies quantify the consequences of flooding hospitals with COVID-19 patients and add urgency to continued efforts to keep cases and hospitalizations down.
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BBC News
Despite being about twice as likely to die from Covid, Hispanic and black Americans are being vaccinated at a much slower rate than their white counterparts, according to figures published by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Of those who have received their first dose, 7.6% are black and 8.7% are Hispanic, despite these groups comprising more than 13% and 18% of the US population respectively. But it is important to bear in mind only about half of those vaccinated have their ethnicity recorded.
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New York Times
Judy Dodd began struggling with long COVID symptoms last spring — shortness of breath, headaches, exhaustion. Then she got the vaccine. After her first Pfizer-BioNTech shot in late January, she felt so physically miserable that she had to be persuaded to get the second. For three days after that one, she also felt awful. But the fourth day, everything changed.
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South Florida Sun Sentinel
Florida could set up a stockpile of life-saving personal protective equipment and sell it to health-care practitioners at cost, under proposals now moving in the Legislature. Despite some concern from one lawmaker who cautioned the measure could turn a “government agency into an Amazon,” the House Pandemics & Public Emergencies Committee on Tuesday unanimously approved its version of the proposal, sponsored by Rep. Clay Yarborough, R-Jacksonville
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Medical Bag
In April 2020, Lorna M. Breen, a top emergency physician in New York City, committed suicide. Breen had no history of mental illness, but prior to her death, according to The New York Times, she described to her father “an onslaught of patients who were dying before they could even be taken out of ambulances.” As Breen’s father told the Times, “She tried to do her job, and it killed her.” COVID-19 has blanketed the world in an unrelenting fog of stress, anxiety, fear, fatigue and grief.
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