Publisher’s Letter March/April 2008
Want to know what your peers are thinking? This January, I launched a survey initiative called IDN Insights. For many years now, I have wanted…
Articles by John Pritchard
Publisher’s Letter January/February 2008
Supply Chain Leaders In the 2007 January/February issue of The Journal of Healthcare Contracting, we started a tradition of recognizing a Contracting Professional of the…
Publisher’s Letter November/December 2007
Making Predictions It just seems every year goes faster than the year before. But for some reason this year just flew by! Maybe it went…
Publisher’s Letter September/October 2007
A Little Sunshine Physician or supplier? That is the question we explore in this issue of The Journal of Healthcare Contracting. I find the topic…
Publisher’s Letter July/August 2007
“10” Unique Perspectives In this issue we have one of my favorite features of the year, the “10 People to Watch in Healthcare Contracting.” Every…
Publisher’s Letter May/June 2007
The Coalition of Healthcare Coverage Earlier this month a very unique coalition was formed to call for healthcare reform and universal healthcare coverage. The group…
Publisher’s Letter March/April 2007
A Federation Full of Opportunity I recently attended the 2007 Federation of American Hospitals Public Policy and Business Exposition held in Washington, D.C. This meeting…
Publisher’s Letter January/February 2007
The pressure is on… We’re already well into the new year, with its new objectives and, of course, added pressure to produce favorable results. This…
Publisher’s Letter November/December 2006
Upon Further Review It was an interesting year for The Journal of Healthcare Contracting in 2006. We explored many topics that truly impact IDN contracting…
Publisher’s Letter September/October 2006
News to Use Wow, how time flies. It seems like we were just starting to execute on our 2006 objectives, and now we are looking…