As health systems continue to expand their campuses with ambulatory clinics, physician practices, and other alternate care sites, ensuring purchasing strategies remain aligned across the enterprise becomes increasingly complex. In this session, three health system leaders will share their experiences partnering with AdvantageTrust to align alternate-site purchasing with broader supply chain strategies to drive consistency, value and contract compliance. Attendees will hear diverse perspectives on key elements of successful alignment efforts, along with real-world examples and lessons learned. Participants will leave with practical insights on how to reduce variation and create measurable value across both acute and non-acute settings.

This session provides a high-level practical walkthrough of how HealthTrust's contract terms and conditions are designed to actively protect members and preserve value, not just define pricing. Through an interactive dialogue, members will gain visibility into how key Terms & Conditions mitigate risk, ensure supplier accountability, and safeguard the financial and operational interests of our members. This session will demystify contractual language, highlight where value is most often won or lost, and reinforce why contract alignment is critical to sustain the pricing performance HealthTrust is known for.

Healthcare executives and supply chain teams are drowning in fragmented data, spending valuable time manually mining reports to manage expenses, and potentially missing crucial contract and spend changes. This lack of an integrated, centralized system means that insights are reactive and not tied directly to the specific actions needed to drive expense optimization.

What if you could transform your spend data into personalized savings recommendations? Join us for this session that will introduce the next generation of Signal—an intelligence layer on top of HealthTrust's technology solutions. Discover executive summaries of your spend and how to enable data-driven alerts within the analytics tools and send personalized notifications to your inbox. Explore the ways to proactively use these tools to increase efficiency and maximize savings on the path to expense optimization. The results will enable you to deliver clear GPO value to your system’s leadership.

Turning data into action requires more than visibility. It takes a clear, credible way to connect clinical, operational and financial insights so leaders, physicians, and cross-functional teams can move in the same direction. In this session we will explore strategies for presenting clinical, operational, and financial data that resonates with physicians and fosters engagement and collaboration to drive informed decision making amongst executive leadership. Rather than relying on disconnected data sources or competing perspectives, organizations can leverage a single source of trusted insights to create clarity and consistency across teams. By the end of the session, participants will be equipped with practical strategies to reduce total cost of care, minimize unwarranted variation and make informed product evaluation decisions across the organization.

This educational session explores the rapid changes shaping the pharmacy benefit landscape and what this means for health systems, from both employee benefit and pharmacy business planning perspectives. Key considerations will include the impact of evolving federal and state policy, revenue model challenges, entry of alternative PBM, biosimilar and GLP trends, and market demand for better pharmacy benefit experience. Participants will gain insights from an expert panel and explore what these changes and challenges are and applicable financial impact for consideration.

The session will also examine how a more connected approach across pharmacy, HR, and supply chain can reduce friction and unlock greater value. Designed for pharmacy leaders, supply chain professionals, and finance executives, this discussion provides practical perspectives on strengthening oversight, improving the member experience, and aligning stakeholders around one of the organization’s most significant areas of spend.

Workforce strategy requires more than addressing immediate staffing gaps. This session focuses on how health systems can take a more structured approach to managing contract labor through a managed service provider (MSP) model. Through a member-led discussion, participants will examine how standardizing vendor management and pricing can create greater consistency, transparency, and cost savings without requiring changes to existing staffing partners.

The conversation will highlight practical considerations for implementing an MSP approach, including how to maintain access to preferred agencies while improving rate competitiveness and contract oversight. Attendees will also explore how baseline analytics can support better visibility into labor utilization and cost savings, enabling more informed decisions while preserving workforce continuity.

Stay ahead of the curve with this session exploring the latest developments across the cardiovascular, robotics and total joint markets. Participants will examine emerging technologies, evolving clinical trends and recent reimbursement and market shifts shaping these high-value service lines. The discussion will also highlight how providers can evaluate innovation, assess market movement and better understand the operational and financial implications tied to these areas of growth. Attendees will leave with a broader perspective on where these categories are headed and practical insight to support more informed planning and decision-making.

Who will benefit from this session: C-suite, Service Line Leaders, Supply Chain, Physicians, Value Analysis. From ordering to outcomes, medical devices move through a complex chain of coordination before they ever reach the point of care. This session will explore why efficient, compliant freight management plays a critical role in supporting timely delivery, operational continuity and patient care.

Misalignment across finance, supply chain, service line leadership and physicians can slow decision making, create friction and limit overall impact. This session examines how evidence-based insights and strategies can be used as a practical alignment tool to bring diverse stakeholders together around shared priorities and informed decisions to drive product conversions at scale. Attendees will learn how to facilitate more productive conversations, reduce variation in decision making and strengthen collaboration across departments.

In healthcare, "customization" often creates a "Complexity Tax," a hidden financial and operational burden that adds cost without improving clinical outcomes. This session deconstructs the manufacturing lifecycle of high-volume medical essentials, such as patient slippers and emesis bags, to reveal how excessive SKU variety triggers production downtime, inflates raw material costs and reduces overall manufacturing capacity. Attendees will move beyond surface-level pricing to explore the "iceberg costs" of variety, gaining a practical framework to balance clinical preference with supply chain resilience. By learning to partner with suppliers on strategic standardization, leaders can stabilize product availability, lower total cost of ownership, and ensure frontline staff have the reliable tools they need for high-quality care.

Purchased services often represent one of the largest and least standardized areas of non-labor spend. Yet many organizations rely on fragmented reports or retrospective reviews that make it difficult to prioritize action. This micro-education session examines structured approaches to analyzing purchased services data in a way that supports clear prioritization and disciplined execution. Designed for supply chain leaders, it answers the critical question: “What should we work on next?”

Participants will explore how scoring methodologies can be used to evaluate opportunity size, likelihood of success, operational readiness and contract alignment. The session will also review common barriers to improving purchased services performance, including decentralized ownership, limited visibility into contract utilization and misalignment between finance, supply chain, and operational stakeholders.

The goal of this session is to provide a repeatable framework for bringing greater transparency, consistency and measurable improvement to purchased services management.

This micro-education session examines a 360-degree framework for pharmacy strategy, focusing on how health systems can strengthen supply continuity, align site-of-care support and improve operational coordination across the continuum. This discussion centers on practical approaches organizations can use to navigate drug shortages, support non-acute settings and integrate pharmacy more fully into enterprise planning.

Participants will explore the core components of an effective drug shortage mitigation strategy, including forecasting, supplier diversification, internal communication protocols and clinical substitution planning. The session will also address the operational realities of serving ambulatory surgery centers and other non-acute environments, with attention to inventory management, contracting alignment and workflow integration.