Supply Chain Translator
Tom Faciszewski, MD, serves as a bridge between the operations and clinical teams at St. Luke’s Health System What begins with “s” and ends with…
Articles by The Journal of Healthcare Contracting
Publisher’s Letter: The Big Regional Shift
In 2007, we started monitoring some regional aggregation activity that hospitals and IDNs were conducting. It seemed reasonable enough that there would be local and…
January 2015
Click Here to Read the Jan issue (w link to PDF download) Linked Together Clinically integrated networks: One more way hospitals and doctors are…
Contracting News
Worth Watching Headlines and trends in healthcare The following are some of the leading stories the Major Accounts Exchange (MAX) monitored in recent months, and…
Physicians Group Up
Hospital systems aren’t the only ones consolidating Rabidly independent. That’s how some would describe the typical physician. True, many doctors have agreed to sell their…
Linked Together
Clinically integrated networks: One more way hospitals and doctors are being pulled together Hospitals and physicians are being drawn together ever more tightly, whether it…
December 2014
Click Here to Read the Dec issue (w link to PDF download) The Patient Experience Improving the patient’s perception of care isn’t just the…
Consolidation. Innovation. Can we have it both ways?
By Mark Thill Talk about consolidation. BD and CareFusion, Biomet and Zimmer, Medtronic and Covidien. And that’s just on the supplier side. How about the hospital/IDN…
Your First Priority
Focus on creating value and eliminating waste By Robert T. Yokl, Chief Value Strategist, Strategic Value Analysis in Healthcare A new way of doing business…
Staying Relevant
Understand the issues facing your customers in the marketplace, consultant Mark Dixon says Healthcare is changing, and IDNs are adapting. Suppliers need to do the…