The past 90 days have been a true world wind for the AHVAP team as we wind down our management relationship with Caphill Management Services and make the full transition over to our new management partner. I am pleased to announce that this transition is now fully complete. Many of you have noticed the substantial improvements in customer service, responsiveness, and general member support over the past 90 days from our new management partner. As your President, I take member feedback very seriously, and we heard from many of you that you needed more from our AHVAP HQ team. You asked, and I am pleased to share that your Board of Directors has delivered based on this feedback. We will continue to raise the bar of excellence in our membership offerings in every aspect of our association.
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As I reflect on 2022, healthcare has taken many bends and turns as we have all experienced. AHVAP has been an organization built on the premise of advancing clinical value analysis across the entire continuum of care. AHVAP is an Association that is rich in collaboration between healthcare providers and organizations, industry partners, and other stakeholders. Working closely with your Board of Directors, AVHAP’s strategic plan will be updated to reflect the dynamic needs of healthcare today and tomorrow. Our Association is poised for tremendous growth, and AHVAP is already growing in terms of new members as well as our professional certification program.
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As I sit and reflect on 2022 for AHVAP, I am reminded of the courage, resilience, and most importantly the fortitude that our AHVAP Members have demonstrated this year. During our AHVAP National Conference and our follow up virtual Member Meeting, I spoke about courage. Our personal courage, industry courage and our organizational courage. Personal courage does not mean that we do not have a recognition of fear, but we are willing and eager to process towards our common goal. For AHVAP, our common goal is to support our AHVAP members and the Value Analysis profession. Personal leadership courage in our profession is sometimes an arduous task, and as AHVAP Members, we find ourselves in times that call for our bold courageous professional leadership. It is Value Analysis time, and we should gladly assume the seat at the healthcare table as AHVAP Members and Value Analysis professionals.
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I have always regarded January as a time to renew, restart and refocus. This January is no different except to say in my AHVAP world as Treasurer, this is the most excited I have been. A little over a year ago, Liz told the Board of Directors to think big, and we did. Our new management company is partnering with us and helping us innovate and bring ideas to life. I am excited to start discussing some of the great programs we have planned for our members.
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The Association of Healthcare Value Analysis Professionals (AHVAP) is pleased to announce a special, joint webinar with the Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses (AORN) focused on integrating EBP for the operating room into the clinical value analysis process. During this webinar program, an overview of the AORN Guidelines will be provided with special emphasis on integrating these evidence-based practices into the clinical value analysis process. The program will also review the AORN recommendations for clinical product evaluation.
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The Association of Healthcare Value Analysis Professionals (AHVAP) is pleased to announce a new accredited, educational webinar program on incorporating basic clinical research into the overall healthcare value analysis process.
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The Association of Healthcare Value Analysis Professionals, Inc. (AHVAP) has officially completed its transition from Caphill Management Services as of December 31, 2022. AHVAP has a new mailing address, help desk email, dedicated CVAHP Certification help desk, and phone number. Please update your contacts for us with the new information below. This updated contact information is also now available on the AHVAP website.
New Mailing Address:
2870 Peachtree Rd NW #915-7500
Atlanta, GA 30305
New AHVAP Headquarters Phone Number:
(888) 400-6844
New AHVAP Help Desk Email to assist with membership, clinical education, annual conference, and all other AHVAP member benefits:
info@ahvap.org
New AHVAP Certification Help Desk to assist with all questions regarding CVAHP certification and recertification:
certification@ahvap.org
New AHVAP Executive Director, Dr. Hudson Garrett Jr.:
hudson.garrett@ahvap.org
If you have sent anything to our previous mailing address, not to worry, it will reach us at our new offices as we have a full year of forwarding services through our partners at the USPS.
Thank you for your continued membership in the premier healthcare value analysis association!
Our most valuable asset in AHVAP is YOU, Our Amazing Members.
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The Association of Healthcare Value Analysis Professionals, Inc. (AHVAP) is currently completing the transition from Caphill Management Services this week. As we move into the new year, we will be finalizing the 2023 volunteer committee structure for the Association to ensure there is direct and measurable alignment with the AHVAP Strategic Plan. Our volunteers are the life blood of our Association and play a vital role in advancing our strategic initiatives. As we embark on this strategic journey together, I have been carefully evaluating each committee over the past few weeks. AHVAP is poised for tremendous growth and our goal is to increase our thought leadership as a professional Association.
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The Association of Healthcare Value Analysis Professionals, Inc. (AHVAP) is excited to announce the details of our 2023 Annual Conference. Over the past 45 days, the AHVAP Conference Committee, Executive Team, and the Board of Directors have carefully reviewed feedback from our 2022 Conference attendees, vendor partners, and other stakeholders. Based on this feedback, AHVAP has heard your requests and is excited to act on many of the items on your wish list! For the past month, the AHVAP Executive Team has worked diligently in sourcing the best possible venue for our healthcare and industry attendees.
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The Association of Healthcare Value Analysis Professionals, Inc. (AHVAP) Certification Center is excited to announce the upcoming January CVAHP Certification Office Hours.
The next Office Hours session will be held on January 23, 2023, from 4-5 pm EDT. This is a dedicated forum where you can ask questions regarding:
- Certification eligibility
- Exam registration processes
- Types of questions are on the exam
- How to recertify
- What types of continuing education credits are acceptable
- Details on the CVAHP CE VIP Concierge Service
To register for the upcoming Office Hours:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84778851584?pwd=UkVzWVR2Tkl0SmpCNDQ4T1pkU09Jdz09
Meeting ID: 847 7885 1584
Passcode: 269037
As a reminder, for CVAHP Certification-related questions, please contact our dedicated Help Desk:
Email: certification@ahvap.org
We look forward to your participation in the upcoming Office Hours Program.
Happy New Year!
AHVAP Certification Center Team
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CNBC
Mainland China’s reopening came sooner than expected for investors, and Goldman Sachs warns it will lead to short-term strains in the workforce and supply chains. According to mobility data analyzed by economists at Goldman Sachs, China is likely to see “weaker growth momentum during the frontloaded ‘exit wave’ on the back of surging infections, a temporary labor shortage and increased supply chain disruptions,” it said in a note Tuesday.
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STAT News
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed a serious flaw in the United States’ medical supply chain: an overreliance on imported supplies. Reinvigorating a domestic supply chain is an important step toward protecting Americans’ health and the country’s national security. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain breakdowns and export restrictions made it difficult, if not impossible, for hospitals to import crucial materials, from N95 masks to life-saving drugs.
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The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services has amended its 2023 fee guidance for the federal independent dispute resolution process, the agency announced last week. Under the amended guidance, administrative fees due from each party for participating in independent dispute resolutions will increase to $350 per party. Additionally, CMS says updated entity fees, which take effect Jan. 1, 2023, can be found here.
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Medical Device + Diagnostic Industry
Labor challenges, raw material shortages, sterilization constraints, and security concerns are four major headwinds of the medtech supply chain heading into the new year, according to a November white paper from FTI Consulting Inc. “During the COVID-19 pandemic, employees started working remotely and are now used to the benefit and flexibility that remote work offers,” Shannon Mills, MBA, a senior director in the company’s supply chain practice, told MD+DI
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Financial Times
A resurgence of colds and flu has combined with COVID-19 to boost sales of over-the-counter medicines, providing a boost for consumer health groups that produce remedies for coughing and sneezing populations. “We’ve seen a strong and prolonged cold and flu season this year, which has been widespread,” said Tobias Hestler, chief financial officer at Haleon, the FTSE 100 consumer health company spun out this year from drugmaker GSK.
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Sustainability Magazine
When published studies found that smoking clearly caused cancer, many physicians went from being smokers to becoming “leaders by example,” by quitting smoking and acknowledging the health hazards of the addictive habit. They helped launch a “war on smoking” after publication of the AMA’s 1972 War on Cancer report. Today, healthcare workers should be leading the War on Climate Change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions caused by the health sector, particularly those caused by hospital supply chains (known as “Scope 3 emissions) that drive the majority of emissions that cause climate change.
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The Joint Commission announced plans to revise 56 standards during the first review cycle of 2023 according to an article in Modern Healthcare today. Revising and retiring certain quality and safety standards will remove redundancies and obsolete measures to allow for new measures related to health equity, sustainability, workforce and infection prevention.
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Fierce Healthcare
Just ahead of the year-end deadline, President Joe Biden signed into law a massive $1.7 trillion spending package that includes a slew of healthcare policy priorities. Biden signed the bill late on Dec. 29 after it was flown to him while vacationing during the holidays in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the White House said. In a tweet, the president touted the package as the capper to "a year of historic progress."
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