By Richard Cowart Television commercials offer free testing kits when you order a company’s products. Power wheelchair advertisements exclaim that the products are free; just contact their sales representative. Medicare Advantage salespersons … [Read more...]
Value Analysis: Going Back to Fundamentals
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By Robert T. Yokl I just had a conversation with a vice president of supply chain who asked my firm for help in coaching her value analysis (VA) manager in the classic philosophy, principles and practices of value analysis. It seems her VA manager … [Read more...]
Diversity: A strategic imperative
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Owens & Minor sponsors 6th Healthcare Supply Diversity Forum Supplier diversity isn’t just a nice thing to do, says Angela Wilkes, director of supplier diversity and small-business liaison officer, Owens & Minor. It’s a business … [Read more...]
Contracting News
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UHS (University Health Systems) changes name again University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina (Greenville, N.C.), which recently changed its name to University Health Systems, or UHS, will change its name to Vidant Health effective January 25, … [Read more...]
Nothing doing
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While their colleagues seek hospital employment, some physicians choose to remain fiercely independent It’s true that some physicians are giving up their private practices in favor of hospital employment. But Norman Chip Harbaugh isn’t one of … [Read more...]
The C-suite Agenda
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Hospitals are responding vigorously to the challenges before them. And they expect their suppliers to do the same. The current and future state of hospital economics? In a word, daunting. But hospitals are responding to the challenge vigorously, … [Read more...]