These sessions will highlight strategies that providers, payers and supplier partners can take to build transparency and predictability into today’s systems to prevent shortages and barriers to effective patient care.

• Disaster preparedness
• Purchased services
• Supplier diversity
• GPO purchasing success
• Tech-enabled supply chain
• Pharmacy
• Diagnostics
• Value analysis
• Clinically integrated supply chain
• Supply and process standardization

These sessions will focus on the latest trends in innovation and implementation being deployed that demonstrate health benefit returns for invested dollars.

• Continued adoption of value-based payments
• Real world evidence for regulatory review and comparative effectiveness
• Identification of best practices - collaboratives and scaling
• Consumer measures of value
• Environmental social and governance efforts in the supply chain
• Managing star ratings
• Data and analytics for next-gen payment
• Considering the value of the lowest cost of care setting
• Leveling the playing field between providers and payers

Healthcare outcomes vary across zip codes, genders, income levels and race. These sessions will feature leaders who are working to keep all communities healthy using new business models, payment incentives, datasets and technologies to close the gaps in healthcare.

• Women and infants
• Research technologies and data to measure social determinants of health
• Addressing food insecurity
• Telehealth
• Combatting substance abuse disorders
• Diversifying clinical trials
• Health equity research
• Rural access best practices
• Overcoming bias

Healthcare is on the cusp of a digital revolution. From artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and natural language processing, to virtual reality and 3D printing, the practice of medicine is moving toward greater tech-enablement. These sessions will focus on how providers and others can use data and technology to deliver better, smarter, high-value care.

• Electronic prior authorization
• Using advanced technology
• AI and public policy
• HCC coding
• Data stewardship and access
• AI for quality improvement
• PAMA/Appropriate use criteria
• AI research
• AI for back-office automation
• Scientific concepts and research design
• Clinical trial operations
• Data management informatics

The 100 Top Hospitals® program brings transparency to performance for all hospitals. By using publicly available data and peer classifications, the program allows for national benchmarking on clinical, operational and financial performance plus patient perception. This completely non-biased, objective approach allows leaders to focus on and improve key metrics as they address this balanced scorecard approach. In these sessions, organizational leaders will share success stories from across their organizations. Whether they used PINC AI™ for access to custom reports, technology to accelerate improvement or expert-led engagements to optimize performance, they found that PINC AI™ and the 100 Top Hospitals® program, is the trusted one-stop-shop for healthcare cost and quality improvement.

• Infection prevention
• Clinical risk reduction
• Operational improvement
• Clinical performance
• Financial improvement
• Patient experience

Learn about best practices and strategies that can be deployed to make the most of scarce labor resources and build a sustainable talent pipeline for the future.

• Workforce optimization strategies
• Workplace culture and retention
• Building a diverse and inclusive team
• Overcoming staff shortages
• Automation and scale to extend labor resources
• Managing labor costs and designing optimal benefit packages

• ACPE: Accreditation Council for Pharmacy
• ANCC: American Nurses Credentialing Center
• AHRMM: Association for Healthcare Resource and Materials Management
• CVAHP: Certified Value Analysis Healthcare Professional
• CBIC: Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology
• NAHQ: Certified Professionals in Healthcare Quality
• HIMSS: Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
• SOCRA: Society of Clinical Research Associates
• Foodservice Professionals: Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) Association of Nutrition and Foodservice Professionals for Certified Dietary Managers (CDM) American Culinary Federation (ACF)
• You may also self-report to MyACHE and ISM