Hospitals cut better medical/surgical supply deals in smaller, innovative group purchasing networks. Meridian Health System in New Jersey posted an annual $1.5 million savings by renegotiating about a dozen of its supply contracts over the past year. By ditching memberships with the big GPOs and creating its own group purchasing cooperative, administrators there are cutting competitive deals. Find out how they're doing it.
Long Island hospital emergency department boosts physician productivity with a cutting-edge digital notepad. A Massapequa (NY) General Hospital emergency physician was one of the first to do a six-month test pilot of a new pen-based digital notepad that lets physicians take notes at the patient's bedside without having to transcribe them later for the formal charts. Find out why developers of the inexpensive device expect interest to increase soon.
Atlanta children's hospital system initiates outpatient pediatric asthma disease management program to reduce inpatient admissions and ER visits while reducing costs. Children's Healthcare of Atlanta turned to the primary care physician community for front-line support in keeping mild asthma cases out of the hospital. By offering evidence-based practice guidelines, training for staff, and educational materials for patients and their families, the Partnership to ACE Asthma program is off to a running start. Learn how to set up a similar program.
Data Benchmarks: Medicaid, Medicare study reveals that public-sector HMO members have higher hospital utilization. Based on an excerpt from National Health Information's book, Managed Medicaid: Data Sourcebook, this benchmarking data can help providers with Medicare and Medicaid risk contracts compare their utilization data with national statistics and be better prepared at the bargaining table.
Seeking a risk contracting edge, a Pennsylvania hospital-physician alliance turns to data gathering and analysis to reduce costs, improve care, and get the most out of its contract. Leaders of PennCARE, an alliance of 11 hospital systems and multiple physician groups, are spending a lot of time and energy these days cleaning up and analyzing payer claims data. Find out what they look for to reduce variation in care among the alliance's hospitals and physicians. And see how providers are using data to improve office processes, as well.
Tennessee providers save big with thin-client technology. Holston Medical Group in Kingsport, TN, decided to implement electronic medical records, but quickly realized how expensive purchasing and maintaining 400 PCs would be. But the group's astute IT director came up with a cost-effective solution that performs all needed functions at a fraction of the cost of PCs.
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