August 29, 2024 – Earlier than the flip of the century, many feared or desired the time period “alternate web site” within the healthcare market. Those that feared it usually labored in acute care settings, anxious that these non-acute care services would siphon off all revenue-generating sufferers, leaving hospitals with solely the sickest sufferers, consuming sources that may jeopardize monetary operations and jobs. Those that desired the time period usually noticed these settings as a method to acquire a aggressive edge and management medical pathways throughout the rising built-in supply networks (IDNs) that outlined a transformative trade. Not surprisingly, the scary financial prey turned the specified one.

For provide chain executives and professionals, the time period represented an growth of obligations, mindsets, roles, and accountability—and a set of inherent and ongoing challenges in strategic sourcing that features worth evaluation, contracting, and distribution of services and products, no matter their affiliation with or possession of hospitals, hospital programs, or IDNs.

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