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Karen Conway’s keynotes focus on the evolving role of the healthcare supply chain, from supporting clinical and financial performance to driving sustainability and collaboration. Her presentations offer actionable insights to help leaders navigate complex challenges and meet the needs of patients and communities.

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The Clinically and Socially Integrated Supply Chain

As healthcare leaders broaden their focus from individual patient care to population health, the supply chain will assume a more strategic role in both clinical and financial performance, while also managing increasingly complex operational responsibilities. This keynote explores the macro trends driving care into the community, offering real-world examples and recommendations on how the supply chain can support the clinical and social needs of patients and communities, as well as the financial well-being of the health system.

Delivering VALUE today and tomorrow

The move to value-based healthcare demands the supply chain expand how it measures the value it delivers, to the healthcare system and the patients and communities it serves. Beyond the cost and efficacy of products, value analysis and strategic sourcing professionals will need to consider the role products play in strengthening resiliency, fighting climate change and/or improving health equity. By walking through a series of hypothetical but realistic scenarios, audience members will learn how to manage this increasing complexity in a manner that aligns to their organization’s strategic priorities.

Delivering Whole Person Care: The Case for Pharmacy and Supply Chain Collaboration and Shared Learning

Note, this speech can be designed for supply chain or pharmacy only audiences or for a mixed audience.

Pharmacy and supply chain organizations both play important roles in providing quality and affordable patient care, and yet many times they still perform similar work with limited interaction. This keynote takes a close look at the critical skill sets of both organizations and provides a pathway for more purpose-driven collaboration in a manner that allows both functions to meet their respective challenges, while aligning to meet the growing demands of patients across the care continuum.

The Healthcare Collaboration Continuum

Collaboration is a critical skill for problem-solving, innovation and achieving broad organizational objectives, especially in complex, highly interconnected environments like healthcare. It’s also a key component for workforce satisfaction. Like healthcare, collaboration also occurs on a continuum. In this presentation, attendees will learn how to nurture collaborative environments, how to align with various internal and external stakeholders around common purpose and how to measure the success for themselves, their partners, their organizations.

Why sustainability starts and ends with supply chain

More than 200 medical journals have called climate change the greatest threat to global public health, while healthcare operations contribute as much as 10 percent of the total U.S. carbon footprint. Today there are a myriad of public and private initiatives calling on healthcare systems to take steps to lower their greenhouse gas emissions while also addressing growing climate-related health needs. This presentation walks the audience through why supply chain is critical to this work, as well as how to meet what are now voluntary but could become mandatory requirements around sustainability and how this work can also support both clinical and financial performance.

From Zambia to Rural America: Making the Last Mile Count

In this presentation, keynote speaker Karen Conway shares what she learned on a recent healthcare mission to the heart of Africa and how it relates to the challenge of healthcare delivery in rural America. In Africa, Conway studied what is needed to enhance community health in remote villages and the role of the supply chain in meeting those needs. What she found was close alignment to the healthcare challenges faced by rural America and how the lessons from Africa can help supply chains support the last and often most critical mile of healthcare delivery in the U.S.

Transform Your Healthcare Strategy with Karen Conway

Unlock lasting impact in healthcare with Karen Conway. Whether through keynote speaking, facilitation, research, or consulting, Karen tailors every program to meet your unique needs. Ready to turn challenges into opportunities? Let’s collaborate and create a solution that works for you. Contact Karen today to learn more!