by David Cassak
National hospital purchasing groups have always lived by Pareto's rule: focusing on high volume supplies for large numbers of customers,...
The New Supply Chain
Having all but exhausted cost savings opportunities in low-tech supplies and generics, leading national hospital groups are turning to physician-preferred items such as cardiovascular devices and orthopedic implants. But they're doing so in clinically-driven programs that embrace physicians' love for technology and otherwise turn traditional group purchasing on its head.