Ten Years After: MedAssets, Cash improvement solutions…and more
Ten years ago, The Journal of Healthcare Contracting visited with John Bardis and Rand Ballard of MedAssets to discuss their approach to the market. Ten…
2014
The Triple Aim
Pay-for-performance programs are intended to improve population health and the patient experience, while reducing cost Supplier success in a post‐reform healthcare market depends on many…
Can Suppliers Deliver True Value?
National accounts consultant helps manufacturers meet providers’ need for more than good prices Who doesn’t love everyday low prices on their medical supplies and equipment?…
June 2014
Click Here to Read the June issue (w link to PDF download) Clinician Preference in 2014 Total value and physician preference items Supply chain…
IT Evolves for True Interoperability
By Caroline Anschutz ACOs, insurance exchanges, and acquisitions are all hot topics in 2014. To focus on a changing healthcare landscape, an IDN must run…
Can we measure the value of medical technology?
By Mark Thill Revisiting the issue of physician preference items – as we do in this month’s issue – is to open a door onto…
news
Propper Manufacturing Company hosts inaugural ANAE Regional Meeting Propper Manufacturing Company (Long Island City, N.Y.) recently hosted the inaugural Regional Meeting of the Association of…
ACOs and the Supply Chain
SMI releases new executive briefing, “The Healthcare Supply Chain in the Era of Accountable Care” Legislative and commercial forces alike are targeting greater accountability in…
FAH 2014 Public Policy Conference and Business Exposition
The annual FAH Conference has become a place to hear policymakers and share best practices Even a major snow storm couldn’t put a damper on…
Top Down Support
By Robert T. Yokl, Chief Value Strategist, Strategic Value Analysis® in Healthcare, www.strategicVA.com Is your executive management supporting your VA efforts? When I first started…