Symposium on Healthcare Value Analysis & Infection Prevention

Welcome to the 2022 Symposium on Healthcare Value Analysis & Infection Prevention

Now Extended On Demand Through Dec. 31, 2022

Learn & Network

Explore the issues where healthcare value analysis and infection prevention intersect

Discover how the healthcare supply chain impacts patient outcomes

Review current strategies for patient safety through the lens of value analysis

Featuring six FREE CE sessions and Q&As with presenters

Scroll down for session descriptions, presenters, FAQs, and registration RSVP.

The Sessions

Environmental Hygiene-Related Imperatives

This session will provide infection preventionists, healthcare value analysis professionals, and affiliated stakeholders with an overview of key issues related to environmental hygiene in healthcare institutions, including a review of the importance of value analysis mapping; the pathogens of importance in hospitals today and why they matter; a review of healthcare laundry and textiles imperatives for infection control; and tying it all together is the telling of one healthcare system's journey through evidence-based value analysis for healthcare environmental services.

Healthcare Value Analysis Concepts for the Infection Preventionist: A Collaboration Destined to Improve Clinical Outcomes

This session will address the importance of infection prevention and value analysis collaboration in organizational decision-making. It will also describe how this collaboration contributed to the organizational response to a global healthcare crisis, as well as discuss the evolution of value analysis programs which maximize collaboration with infection prevention and the ways this evolution enables, supports and enhances the organization’s ability to continue to deliver safe care and quality outcomes.

Infection Prevention & Value Analysis Collaboration: An Opportunity to Deliver Value

This session will address the importance of infection prevention and value analysis collaboration in organizational decision-making. It will also describe how this collaboration contributed to the organizational response to a global healthcare crisis, as well as discuss the evolution of value analysis programs which maximize collaboration with infection prevention and the ways this evolution enables, supports and enhances the organization’s ability to continue to deliver safe care and quality outcomes.

Value Analysis for Infection Control in the COVID-19 Era

This session will explain key considerations for product evaluation as well as describe the collaboration between infection prevention and environmental services in product selection. It will also address the importance of making a business case for the evaluation of safe and effective products to improve environmental safety as well as describe a new environmental services approach to value analysis.

Healthcare Textiles and Laundry-Related Imperatives

This session will explore the evidence relating to reusable healthcare textiles' role in healthcare-acquired infection prevention as well as describe the findings in the medical literature that reusable healthcare textiles contribute to the reduction of environmental impact, including on climate, water, and solid waste compared to disposables. It will also examine the life cycle of reusable healthcare textiles and the cost savings they can contribute to the institutional bottom line. Additionally, it will explain why patient-care healthcare textiles are laundered separately from textile products used by environmental services, and how modern laundry operations and processes help keep patients safe by providing a hygienically clean HCT product.

Product Evaluation and Purchasing: A Review for Clinicians

This session will describe the best approach for product selection based on evidence-based data as well as explore resources that can assist clinicians in effective product evaluation and purchasing. It will also help clinical stakeholders to identify the best study design to evaluate a product's clinical effectiveness.

The Presenters

Aaron Jett

Aaron Jett

The Pearce Foundation for Scientific Endeavor

John Scherberger

John Scherberger

Healthcare Risk Mitigation

Lisa Kilgore

Lisa Marie Kilgore

Director, epi and IP&C, Scripps Health

Michael Parker

Michael Parker

Director, EVS, Orlando Regional Medical Center

Susan Miller

Susan G. Miller

Senior director of enterprise value analysis, Jefferson Health

Beverly Nieves

Beverly Nieves

Corporate manager of IP&C, Orlando Health

Karen Niven

Karen Niven

President-elect, AHVAP

Lynne Sehulster

Lynne Sehulster

Principal, Environmental Infection Prevention, LLC

Paul Pearce

Paul J. Pearce

The Pearce Foundation for Scientific Endeavor

Hudson Garrett

Hudson Garrett, Jr.

Community Health Associates, LLC

Kelly Zabrieskie

Kelly Zabriskie

VP of IP&C, Jefferson Health

Michael Overcash

Michael R. Overcash

Environmental Genome Initiative

Rob Tussey

Robert Tussey

National training manager for EVS, CommonSpirit Health

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Healthcare Value Analysis Special Edition

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Did you miss the Special Edition on Healthcare Value Analysis from Healthcare Hygiene magazine?

Check out expert perspectives and updates on the healthcare supply chain in this special edition, produced by Healthcare Hygiene magazine in collaboration with the Association of Healthcare Value Analysis Professionals (AHVAP)