Create a Culture of Ownership
It’s ultimately your department heads and manager’s job to be responsible for their supply chain expenses If you would think about it, supply chain professionals…
2014
Hospital and health system news from across the country
Editor’s note: The following news has been compiled by Major Accounts Exchange (The MAX), health care’s leading provider of real-world intelligence for the supply chain….
Diversity symposium brings together supply chain players
Representatives from minority-, women-, and veteran-owned businesses (MWVBEs) joined with professionals from healthcare providers, supply chain companies, and healthcare manufacturers this fall at Owens &…
Physician practice acquisition: A good deal or not?
Tool helps IDNs evaluate the profitability of the practices they’ve purchased For hospital systems, acquiring physician practices makes sense for a lot of reasons. It’s…
No Doctor is an Island
Alignment is key to success Physician practices of the past followed these principles to success: High volume. High compensation. High independence. But those of the…
Dueling Data
What’s next for the independent practice? Is the independent physician practice a relic of the past, or a viable model for the future? It may…
Tomorrow’s Provider
Contracting executives are looking ahead to 2014 and wondering what their hospital or health system will look like. Will physicians trend toward independent practices, or…