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...
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...
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...
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...
RISING Above Fear Let’s be blunt about it. Health care today is conducted within an intensely competitive environment, due in large part to the changing and expanding role of government. Government and insurer reimbursements are being reduced or managed much more...
UNLOCKING Greater Savings and Profitability in Health Care As a health care administrator, you have a tough job. How to reduce costs while improving patient care and staff performance? How to find new ways to achieve efficiency, after cutting expenses in every...
