Strategies for net cost reductions with the expanded role and expertise of anesthesiologists in the perioperative surgical home

F Dexter, RE Wachtel - Anesthesia & Analgesia, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Abstract The Perioperative Surgical Home is a model adopted by the American Society of
Anesthesiologists to increase quality and patient safety and to decrease costs. This Special …

How procurement judges the value of medical technologies: a review of healthcare tenders

FA Miller, P Lehoux, S Peacock, VE Rac… - International journal of …, 2019 - cambridge.org
ObjectivesProcurement's important role in healthcare decision making has encouraged
criticism and calls for greater collaboration with health technology assessment (HTA), and …

Hip and knee implants: current trends and policy considerations

NA Wilson, ES Schneller, K Montgomery, KJ Bozic - Health Affairs, 2008 - healthaffairs.org
This paper constitutes an analysis of the issues, relationships, emerging hospital strategies,
and policy needs surrounding hip and knee implants. Demand for hip and knee …

The innovation impacts of public procurement offices: The case of healthcare procurement

FA Miller, P Lehoux - Research Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
Interest in public procurement's role in innovation has been reinforced by the directional turn
in innovation policy, which highlights the social purpose of innovation. Procurement-induced …

Supply chain risk management and hospital inventory: Effects of system affiliation

ED Zepeda, GN Nyaga, GJ Young - Journal of Operations Management, 2016 - Elsevier
In this study we examine the effects of horizontal inter-organizational arrangements on
inventory costs for hospitals facing two key environmental conditions, namely the logistics …

Hospital purchasing alliances: Utilization, services, and performance

LR Burns, JA Lee - Health Care Management Review, 2008 - journals.lww.com
Background: Hospital purchasing alliances are voluntary consortia of hospitals that
aggregate their contractual purchases of supplies from manufacturers. Purchasing groups …

Hospital supply expenses: an important ingredient in health services research

Y Abdulsalam, E Schneller - Medical Care Research and …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The purpose of this article is to shed light on hospital supply expenses, which form the
second largest expense category after payroll and hold more promise for improving cost …

The challenges of hospital supply chain management, from central stores to nursing units

S Landry, M Beaulieu - Handbook of healthcare operations management …, 2013 - Springer
The practice of patient care is supported by a range of healthcare supply chain management
activities, also referred to by many as healthcare logistics. Improving the efficiency of these …

The impact of performance measurement on purchasing group dynamics: The Canadian experience

J Nollet, M Beaulieu, N Fabbe-Costes - Journal of Purchasing and Supply …, 2017 - Elsevier
Purchasing groups were first created in the healthcare sector, which has faced
unprecedented challenges in terms of cost control for over two decades. Purchasing groups …

Health care matters: supply chains in and of the health sector

Y Abdulsalam, M Gopalakrishnan… - Journal of Business …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Providing health care involves a complex enterprise, and the trade‐off between quality and
cost has been particularly stark compared to other industries. However, a recent focus on …