By now you have heard the new healthcare vocabulary of population health, value-based contracting, and accountable care organizations, which will…
Traditionally, value analysis hasn’t been a data-driven process (i.e., value analysis decisions are made with data, rather than intuition, experience,…
Every hospital, system, and IDN is expanding beyond their healthcare organization’s walls to include physicians’ offices, home care, hospice, surgicenters,…
If you think that supply utilization management (SUM) is a one-time event, then you don’t understand how SUM works. Specifically,…
To paraphrase an article we recently read, supply utilization management can be just like a slot machine. Think of all…
I think that everyone wants to be at the very top of their savings game, which we call the top…
I’m sure you have discovered, after much frustration, that you can’t manage and control everything your healthcare organization is buying…
Every healthcare supply chain organization is looking for new sources of accelerated savings to stem the tide of their healthcare…
I hope you are aware that Medicare is planning to increase their quality reimbursement measures from 30% to 50% over…
Why climb a mountain when you can take an elevator? The mountain is a metaphor for you trying to change…