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Editor's Note

Although the term “value-based care” dates back nearly two decades, payer reimbursement models too often seem more like volume-based care. In a presentation at the upcoming OR Business Management Conference, scheduled February 10-12 at the Saddlebrook Resort in Tampa, Florida, economist Susanna Gallani, PhD, will delve into how misaligned performance incentives negatively impact both patients and providers.  By rewarding clinicians based on what motivates most of them to enter the field in the first place—improving patient outcomes—organizations can reduce costly high turnover rates driven by moral injury and burnout.  

Unable to attend the conference? Subscribe to OR Manager and dive deep with Dr Gallani in an article scheduled for our February show issue, one of two special editions we’ll publish this year (the second will focus on the 2025 OR Manager Conference this October in Anaheim, California). And if you will be joining us this February in Tampa, this special edition of OR Manager will help connect the dots between the discussions happening on stage and the solutions you can take back to your teams.

Another example is an OR Business Management Conference session focused on how creatively right-sizing inventory can avoid the need to choose between cost or quality.  As executive director of the Association for Health Care Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM) of the American Hospital Association (AHA), Michael Schiller, FAHRMM, CMRP, will share insights not just on stage, but also in writing. Among other big ideas shaping supply management practices, the presentation and complementary show-issue article will cover just-in-time inventory, supply contract refinement, SKU rationalization, and various elements of supply contract negotiation.

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