Why do Hospitals Struggle to Run like a Business?

Today’s guest post is courtesy of Andy Monin, President and CEO of VendorMate and fellow blogger over on Vendor Compliance.I’ll join Michael Lamoureux et al. in opining that of all industries, healthcare has the greatest opportunity to benefit from e-Procurement. In my opinion, Healthcare Materials Management professionals have the toughest job in all of [...]

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Healthcare - Three Way Matching

Today I’d like to thank Vinnie Mirchandani of Deal Architect and New Florence. New Renaissance. for allowing me to re-post his thoughts on Healthcare - Three Way Matching as part of Healthcare Week.At the HiMSS conference a couple of weeks ago, I had the privilege of having an industry veteran - Dave Watson - as [...]

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GPOs and the Health Care Industry of Tomorrow

Join me in welcoming another guest author to Sourcing Innovation with his post questioning where GPOs will fit in the Health Care industry of tomorrow! Where will GPOs fit as the Health Care industry starts leveraginge-procurement and the Internet to the level other industries have? Beforeanswering this, let’s start by quickly summarize the value [...]

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Canadian Medical Purchasing is Only Just Average

Today’s post is from a contributor, who’s a buyer and not a cutter, who wishes to remain anonymous.The Canadian medical and healthcare landscape is a patchwork of publicly funded services (which, for the most part, operate as a legal monopoly) and privately funded services. With some exceptions, the traditional, physician-based, services are generally provided [...]

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The Battle Over Efficiency vs. Quality vs. Cost in Hospitals and Clinics

Today I’d like to thank Dave Stephens of Coupa for letting me re-post his thoughts on efficiency vs. cost in health-care providers. Coupa has been working with a number of healthcare organizations lately, and so we thought we’d share some of the e-procurement challenges that we see as unique to that industry.We’ll start with [...]

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It’s e-Procurement for Health-Care Week!

One of the areas I don’t talk much about is health-care - even though it’s one of the areas that could probably benefit the most from e-Sourcing and e-Procurement? So why don’t I talk about it? Because I don’t do any work in the area. Why don’t I do any work? [...]

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