Health Logistics Seminar

Combining health care with logistics is an important discussion on the challenge of meeting the needs of patients, public institutions, and medical providers, as well as the interaction of these groups with supply chain stakeholders.

We invited three organizations to share their perspectives. Satish Gattadahalli and Bill Barton from WBB will present on Health Systems Engineering--Call to Action. Irv Varkonyi from SCOPE and APICS DC Metro will discuss "How Supply Chain Professionals Can Contribute to Public Health Care." Our third speaker, Matthew Jansen from Iron Bow Technologies, will provide insight on Sourcing the New Healthcare Paradigm.

Health Systems Engineering--Call to Action

Complex industries such as aviation, transportation, telecom, manufacturing, aerospace, and pharmaceuticals have seen benefits of applying systems engineering. There is a tremendous opportunity and mounting evidence of dramatic outcomes improvement among early adopters to apply systems engineering principles and practices more broadly in healthcare. Healthcare is an ecosystem and complex system of systems. Industrial, Systems Engineering, and Systems Science can play a pivotal role in improving efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare systems, reducing waste, and improving reliability. The purpose of the presentation is to frame the context and establish a case for using Health Systems Engineering concepts and principles to achieve triple aim and learning healthcare foundations.

How Supply Chain Professionals Can Contribute to Public Health Care

This session will demonstrate the opportunities for Supply Chain professionals to contribute to Public Health Care outside the United States. The demands of public health care require the application of supply chain best practices and interaction with commercial companies in the distribution of pharmaceutical and medical products. The challenge of public health care is to deliver pharmaceutical and medical products to end users while working through a large universe of stakeholders, regulations, geographical diversity and resource constraints. This session will explore supply chain best practices which can enhance the efficiency of public health care logistics. The session will exam the evolution of Governments and Non-Governmental Organizations in providing health care to emerging nations as a supply chain challenge. Modern supply chain practices, including greater availability of technology, are enhancing the effectiveness of public health care.

Sourcing the New Healthcare Paradigm

By creating national and international networks of physicians, we are able to support communities in developing higher clinical capacities to meet local needs while applying global resources to fill in the healthcare service gaps. In this session, we will explore clinical use cases, market trends, and best practices that provide platforms for patient centered care to be sustained locally through strategic partnerships, logistics and managed services.

Registration fee:

Student - $10

Government - $15

APICS member - $20

Non-APICS member - $25

Schedule:

12:00PM 12:30PM Lunch

12:30PM 1:00PM Health Systems Engineering--Call to Action

1:00PM 1:30PM How Supply Chain Professionals Can Contribute to Public Health Care

1:30PM 1:45PM Break

1:45PM 2:15PM Sourcing the New Healthcare Paradigm

2:15PM 3:15PM Panel Discussion

Organization backgrounds:

WBB is a leading solutions provider for Government agencies facing difficult mission-critical challenges. WBB has a well established reputation for helping Federal agencies analyze sophisticated Government challenges to determine service requirements, monitor program performance, provide tailored solutions, and track and report progress to achieve mission success. With more than 30 years of stellar performance and a wide base of unmatched Subject Matter Experts, WBB delivers creative and innovative capabilities to high-level decision makers throughout DoD, VA, and other Federal departmentsand agencies.

SCOPE seeks to add value to organizations through training human capital and improving their ability to focus on the urgency of organizational balance by optimizing operational performance and minimizing organizational vulnerability.

Iron Bow is a world-class leader in advancing the adoption and consumption of Telemedicine solutions on a global basis. Iron Bow is a $850M corporation headquartered in Chantilly, VA and currently supports some of the world’s largest Telemedicine deployments to date. Iron Bow Healthcare Solutions allows point-of-care providers to collaborate and communicate among the care teams and provide access to patients anywhere at any time. Immediate access to critical patient information and the ability to instantly consult with other providers involved in the care plan enable clinicians to make informed decisions, ensuring the best possible outcomes.

Our Telemedicine services offering consists of the following major components:

Telemedicine Consulting Services
Device acquisition
Technical, Engineering and Program Management Services
Clinical Adoption Services
Premise or Cloud based HIPAA secure video platform
International Telemedicine Service Center