By Bob Hardy, Senior Director, Strategic Sourcing, OC Reilly, Inc. While it wouldn’t surprise anyone to know that the health care system in the U.S. continues to experience change, perhaps the fact that most of it occurs in venues outside of hospitals and clinics might. And the notion that supply chain can add value in those […]
GAINING an Active Partner When every dollar counts, the last thing you need is another “consultant” to swoop in, perform a cursory look-around, and leave you with an off-the-shelf solution and a big invoice. Your issues demand and deserve more – more attention, more time, more applied thinking, and more hands-on involvement. You need a […]
TAKING Control Again It can be easy to conclude that you’ve done all you can to increase efficiency and lower costs. You have done a good job with making budgetary cuts, trimming in ways large and small to maximize productivity. Yet the same issues persist. More needs to be done. It can feel like events […]
WORKING from Facts The well-known business adage states: If you can measure it, you can manage it. The same applies to health care operations. In the health care industry, spending assumptions can be off-base, sometimes by a large degree. It becomes difficult to manage expenses effectively when not starting from a base of verified, validated […]