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Amerinet Member:$99
Non-Member:$130

  iQast  CE  MMLI: Strategic Leadership
Date:   6/19/2012Time:   1:15 PM EDT-2:45 PM EDTThis program will describe the concepts and attributes of becoming a strategic leader for supply chain excellence within your organization. This will include descriptions and actions that will inform the participants on building relationships, becoming a respected agent of change, and how to assume a leadership role within your organization. Several examples of how to apply these concepts within your organization will be explored, such as the management of physician preference items (PPI), and the control and assessment of new clinical technology such as medical devices or diagnostic and therapeutic equipment.
Program Objectives:
  • Examine supply chain leadership goals and expectations
  • Implement and apply leadership style and change agent processes
  • Identify a process to review and manage PPI products
  • Incorporate Technology Assessment program into organizational structure
Presenter:
Pat Klancer, MHA, CMRP, FCPHM, Senior Director, Supply Chain, Diagnostix
  As Senior Director, Patricia Klancer provides leadership to the Diagnostix consultants and utilization managers on developing and implementing programs to help members recognize and sustain significant supply chain savings. Through state of the art data management and analysis tools, Diagnostix helps healthcare providers identify cost savings opportunities, manage contracts, reduce supply chain expenses and eliminate pricing variances. Klancer's leadership was a driving force in the development of the Amerinet Savings Roadmap, a program that has delivered over 800 savings analyses in its first three years of operation.

Klancer brings more than 25 years of experience in the healthcare supply chain industry. Prior to joining Amerinet, Klancer worked as a supply chain consultant. Consulting engagements included supply chain assessments, materials management information systems and non-salary expense reductions. Klancer also served as a hospital-based materials director. Her ability to communicate with clinicians, administrators, staff, and vendors enabled her to achieve win/win results in operations, systems implementation, supply chain excellence, and negotiated best pricing. In addition, Klancer managed a portfolio of contracts for a multi-hospital cooperative and implemented a value analysis program that generated total savings of $14 million.

Klancer is a published author in Healthcare Purchasing News, Journal of Healthcare Materials Management and Hospital Materials Management Quarterly. She has also lectured for Amerinet's Inquisit Speakers' Bureau, AHRMM, HCMMS, HFMA Chapters, and several other groups.

Educational credentials include a Master of Health Administration, and Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.
Registrations are welcome and accepted up until the program’s scheduled date.
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