Taking Their Temperature
Employed physicians positive about their profession and careers, according to an extensive survey Physicians who are employed by IDNs or other entities appear to have…
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Contracting Professional of the Year: With Trust Comes Success
For Teresa Dail, chief supply chain officer at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, building relationships is key to being an effective leader. By Laura Thill Teresa…
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…
The Patient Experience
Improving the patient’s perception of care isn’t just the work of doctors and nurses, but all support personnel too. Including supply chain.The hospital room as sacred space?…
New practice model could change game for providers
Change is coming to the nation’s primary care doctors, and specialists too. Some believe it’s the future of medicine. Others believe it’s what medicine always…
Raising the Alarm
Some say that high blood pressure is a silent killer. However, a surgeon and author of a newly released book believes that your doctor may…
Changing Course
Editor’s Note: The participation of those in the following article does not constitute an endorsement of the sponsor’s products or services. It’s a long and…
Pace is picking up for urgent care centers
After a slowdown in the 1990s and 2000s, urgent care centers are back, and growing. And hospitals are showing increasing interest. Urgent care began in…
Unlock Supply Chain Strategies
The importance of a customer service mentality Journal of Healthcare Contracting readers don’t need to be told, theirs is not a simple task. On the…
The Ripple Effect
McKesson’s proposed acquisition of PSS would leave McKesson and Henry Schein as the sole remaining national physician distributors, though a host of independents continue to…