Discussions on capital equipment leadership cover topics of patient care, operational efficiency, compliance with regulations, and financial sustainability, as well as sharing best practices, addressing challenges, and fostering collaboration among healthcare leaders. These discussions allow for a proactive approach to future decisions assisting health systems to strategically outline new investments in capital equipment.

Join industry thought leaders as they explain the need for discussion over capital equipment leadership and take a proactive look at the future of capital equipment.

Learning Objectives:

1. Define the role of capital equipment leadership within your organization.

2. Analyze your organization’s future and uncover any strategic actions that need to be taken.

3. Identify the balance between the needs of the facility and the needs of the patient.

4. Outline strategies for maintaining effective capital equipment leadership.

Healthcare facilities leaders are increasingly having to adopt new strategies to ensure uninterrupted patient care with the advent of new facility challenges. Examples of these challenges are aging infrastructure, artificial intelligence challenges, cybersecurity threats, financial pressures, and supply and workforce shortages, among other challenges.

In this session, better understand how these challenges impact facility leadership and discover how we can collaborate to use cost effective strategies for improved patient outcomes.

Learning Objectives:

1. Define collaboration strategies to improve patient outcomes.

2. Evaluate the unique challenges associated with hospital facilities.

3. Compare current safety standards against aging physical plants.

4. Identify practical strategies for anticipating and minimizing down time.

Contractors, architects, designers, engineers, equipment planners, and healthcare suppliers are challenged with assisting facility leaders in building and designing healthcare facilities with limited resources. Examples of these challenges are sustainable design, smart hospitals, competing priorities, limited resources, and the patient experience among others.

When faced with these challenges, collaboration becomes essential. During this session, we’ll discuss ways in which to break down silos and improve communications to more efficiently build healthcare facilities.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify building and design’s impact on patient care.

2. Define sustainability strategies in building new healthcare facilities.

3. Detect areas of communications improvement for your hospital construction project.

4. Evaluate the latest technologies used in constructing your healthcare facilities and in the patient experience once completed.

Today, GPOs are playing a more visible and dynamic role in healthcare capital projects. Against this background, group purchasing organizations executives will share insight from their unique role as industry experts and explore how they believe suppliers can best position themselves to be successful in both the short and long term around healthcare construction, capital, and facilities.

In this session, understand the position of GPOs as intermediaries, driving cost savings, promoting innovation, and working to ensure capital project success.

Learning Objectives:

1. Uncover and define the trends in healthcare construction and facilities decisions.

2. Gain insight into operations and design innovations driven by the evolution of care delivery.

3. Identify recent GPO initiatives to improve healthcare capital projects.

4. Describe innovative solutions and processes that can drive further efficiency in healthcare capital projects

According to the 2024 Hospital Construction Survey conducted by ASHE, nearly half of healthcare respondents had experienced construction cost increases and delays on 76% to 100% of their recent projects. Difficulties including inflation, supply chain shortages, and labor scarcity all pose challenges in project completion.

Join healthcare contractor thought leaders as they discuss costs and timelines associated with construction projects and outline the best ways to build resiliency when difficulties arise.

Learning Objectives:

1. Outline areas of potential weakness or delays in recent construction projects.

2. Define resilience in construction projects.

3. Plan practical action steps to predict delays and cost increases.

4. Rank construction challenges by level of immediate impact.

According to the 2024 Hospital Construction Survey conducted by ASHE, nearly half of healthcare respondents had experienced construction cost increases and delays on 76% to 100% of their recent projects. Difficulties including inflation, supply chain shortages, and labor scarcity all pose challenges in project completion.

Join healthcare contractor thought leaders as they discuss costs and timelines associated with construction projects and outline the best ways to build resiliency when difficulties arise.

Learning Objectives:

1. Outline areas of potential weakness or delays in recent construction projects.

2. Define resilience in construction projects.

3. Plan practical action steps to predict delays and cost increases.

4. Rank construction challenges by level of immediate impact.