Name: Partner Relationship Series: CHAMPS Group Purchasing, USF and Premier
Start: 2021-10-13T16:00:00Z
End: 2021-10-13T16:00:11.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

The CHAMPS Supply Chain Insights Channel delivers educational and informative content for supply chain focused professionals. Supplier, Industry Leaders, and Innovative guests explore current trends and the future of our supply chain.

What does it mean to be a CHAMPS member with access to thousands of contracts? From the extensive contract categories to the communications with account managers, this talk will examine the relationship between CHAMPS and Premier. By registering for this talk, you’ll discover the member benefits and learn the details of what makes the contracting team an essential piece in the effort to secure the best possible savings. 

Other key takeaways include:
• How to become a contracted supplier
• Categories covered by contracts
• Examining the responsibilities of the contracting team
• The relationship between Champs, the suppliers and members

HOST: 
Jan Elder, director, contracting services, CHAMPS GPO

What is CHAMPS GPO? Learn About Our Contracting

Delivering a more efficient way to manage your inventory while saving, Procurement Partners’ Hybrent software allows you to improve compliance, provide better inventory insight, and offer a new level of convenience. Seen as a true partner to help you through the purchasing process, Hybrent provides cost reduction and time savings for you and your team. Consisting of a single web-based system, you’ll be able to place orders and receive invoices while also staying informed on prices to ensure you receive the accurate price in your contract.

In this talk, you’ll discover all the benefits the Hybrent can offer and how Procurement Partners’ partnership with CHAMPS can save you time and money.

Other key takeaways include:
• Maximizing the value of your GPO
• Reducing supply cost 
• How Hybrent increases efficiency 
• How to ensure you’re paying the right price

Supplier Spotlight: E-Procurement with Hybrent powered by Procurement Partners

In this talk CHAMPS GPO Director Maria Summers speaks with VPL’s Assistant Vice President Alex Labosky. Providing solutions in freight management and real-time visibility on tracking shipments, VPL continues to create game-changing advancements with their Supply Chain Visibility Platform which helps optimize the shipping process.

In this talk, you’ll discover the benefits of building a smarter healthcare supply chain and how VPL’s partnership with CHAMPS can save you time and money.

Other key takeaways include:
• Gain insights into the benefits of pricing transparency.
• Learn how VPL manages inbound freight at a low cost.
• Understand the transformation of freight management.
• Discover how VPL’s software can help you save

Supplier Spotlight: Vantage Point Logistics

In this BrightTALK event Wendy Hleba and Jessica Woodhams of CHAMPS Group Purchasing answer frequently asked questions regarding CHAMPS Group Purchasing account management.

Who is CHAMPS GPO: Account Management

Christina Humble is a Field Service Support Specialist at CHAMPS Group Purchasing. In this BrightTALK event Christina answers frequently asked questions regarding CHAMPS Group Purchasing membership, including the various benefits of becoming a member and available resources to members.

Who is CHAMPS GPO: Learning About Our Membership

Maria Summers is the Director of Champs Group Purchasing. In this BrightTALK event Maria provides an overview of the CHAMPS Group Purchasing organization. She explains the benefits of joining and function of group purchasing organizations. More specifically, Maria answers questions regarding CHAMPS Group Purchasing and the benefits of leveraging purchasing power with CHAMPS.

Who is CHAMPS GPO: Learning About CHAMPS

What's cookin'? Find out in this webinar when CHAMPS Group Purchasing works with US Foods Food Fanatic Chef Chris Quinn to explore how you can create versatile menu items using US Foods' CMA-approved offerings. Members can add more variety to their planning and save time and money with the CHAMPS GPO-US Foods contract.

Partner Relationship Series: Creating Versatile Menu Items with US Foods

How will the transition to transparent data will help improve the delivery of healthcare for everyone? Dan Schneiderman, national account manager for surgery & physicians centers at CHAMPS Group Purchasing, sits down with Josh Emert, chief executive officer of Relatable Healthcare, in this BrightTALK webcast to get the answer to this question and more. During this talk, Dan and Josh will also discuss the specific ways Relatable can bring value to CHAMPS members.

Josh Emert is a former chief product officer of a social marketing automation company, with experience in medical device sales. Relatable Healthcare is a contracted supplier with Premier Inc.

Relatable: Streamlining Software Solutions through Healthcare Technology

As part of the ongoing Partner Relationship Series between CHAMPS Group Purchasing and US Foods, Maria Summers, webcast host and director of CHAMPS Group Purchasing, sits down with Myra Knouff, Rob Burkhart and Tess Sutter to discuss menu planning and business value-adds.

Myra Knouff is the national account manager of senior living facilities for CHAMPS Group Purchasing. Since 2014, Tess Sutter has been responsible for execution and implementation of menu solutions at US Foods as the manager of menu solutions. Rob Burkhart, V.P. of Healthcare at US Foods, brings 31 years of food service and pharmacy distribution, as well as group purchasing operations experience, to the conversation. Rob and his team have recently launched the US Foods VITALS program focused on helping customers drive positive results in the areas of labor staffing, patient and resident satisfaction, cost management and retail performance.

Partner Relationship Series: Menu Planning and Business Value-Adds

In this Supply Chain Insights episode, CHAMPS Group Purchasing hosts a wide-ranging discussion on how Premier Inc. sources its cybersecurity contracts, what is involved in its sourcing process and how Premier's IT team implements the software.

Cyber Security: Solutions and Resources

Matt Perrin from Care.ly, will discuss  how the Care.ly app and the company is solving the problem of the family communication gap between families and senior care providers.

The Reality of Senior Care’s Family Communication Gap and How to Fix It

OnSite Waste is a medical waste technology company that partners with healthcare organizations to empower them to gain control of their medical waste spend by streamlining all processes with an easy to use approach. OnSite Waste's TE-5000 sterilization device turns infectious sharps and red-bag waste into regular trash that can be thrown away at your facility.

OnSite Waste Technologies - Medical Waste Sterilization Device Overview

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, cybercriminals have stepped up their game in order to exploit vulnerable individuals and organizations. Issues such as HIPAA non-compliance, identified as a seven-figure risk in 2021, remain at the front of healthcare cybersecurity professionals’ minds. Join host Brian Lane, president and CEO of The Center for Health Affairs, and panelists Ali Pabrai, CEO of compliance and cybersecurity solutions provider ecfirst, and Leigh Anderson, CIO of healthcare improvement company Premier Inc., as they discuss the state of healthcare cyber risk in the present day and the application of HITRUST and CMMC standards to achieve advanced cyber defense.

Healthcare Cyber Risk: Advancing Cyber Defense

Presented by SurgeryLink, join CHAMPS Group Purchasing for a wide-ranging discussion on the impact of telehealth, considerations on utilizing telehealth, how it impacts patients and the industry's future.

Telehealth: A Rapidly Evolving Connection

B Medical Systems, an international leader in medical-grade refrigeration and vaccine cold chain equipment with over 40 years experience, brings an overview of the current landscape of COVID-19 vaccine candidates, where they are in development, appropriate storage temperatures, and how to properly prepare for the arrival and protection of the vaccine doses prior to administration.

Preparing for the COVID-19 Vaccine: What to Know About Cold Storage & Transport

Collaborating with local agencies and organizations, CHAMPS GPO will give a percentage of proceeds to a participating Northeast Ohio organization with every purchase new CHAMPS Members make.

CHAMPS GPO Presents The Give Back Program

In the wake of COVID-19, healthcare providers and facilities have had to rapidly shift to delivering virtual patient care and communications. With traditional office visits minimized to protect employees and visitors, leaders within the healthcare field were required to innovate on the fly and come up with creative ways to improve patient outcomes aside from traditional office visits.  

In this episode, Tracy Wise, Vice President of CHAMPS GPO, sits down for an engaging talk with Carol Santalucia, director of business development in the Office of Patient Experience at Cleveland Clinic, Delanea Davis, co-founder and CEO of Cloud 9 Online, and Michael Eidsuane, co-founder and CEO of Carely. Topics discussed include the rapid changes to patient care that came in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and what's happening now to rethink healthcare delivery for the future.

Rethinking Healthcare Delivery during COVID-19

As the introduction to our Partner Relationship Series, Maria Summers and Bill Ek of CHAMPS GPO discuss how CHAMPS Group Purchasing's partnership with US Foods and Premier can benefit your organization.

Partner Relationship Series: CHAMPS Group Purchasing, USF and Premier

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