Come together
Can physician-preference vendors come together with supply chain executives and clinicians for the good of the patient? Alan Weintraub, chief procurement officer, Enloe Medical Center,…
June 2013
Rethinking the Process
Editor’s note: In April, the Journal of Healthcare Contracting examined the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program’s impact on hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and home health agencies….
Modest Start, Big Lead
Smart strategizing has helped one small network grow beyond its expectations. When the Louisiana Hospital Rural Network launched in January 2010, its mission was to…
Embracing Change
With an eye to the future, Deborah Petretich Templeton ensures Geisinger Health System remains an industry leader. As accountable care organizations become the predominant model…
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW: SUSAN SKOCHELAK
Meet the new doctor…not the same as the old doctor Healthcare delivery is rapidly changing, and the way in which young doctors are educated is…
Publisher’s Letter
Changing Dynamics A few years ago as the industry started to make eye contact with healthcare reform, talk of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) went from…