Dark Daily reports that hospitals are pressuring their Group Purchasing Organizations to bring more benefits in terms of cost savings and product offerings to the table. (Most readers will be aware that a GPO is a vehicle created to leverage member purchasing power within a particular industry.)
In an article entitled “Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs) pushed by hospital members to deliver more value,” Dark Daily – a publication focusing on clinical laboratory and anatomic pathology group management – sees a number of changes a foot in the health-care GPO marketplace. Chief among these potential changes are a moves by GPOs to enter arrangements with more suppliers in order to offer a larger variety of products. On the hospital side of the equation, there is a move toward hospitals joining more GPOs (most hospitals already are members of at least two) or even starting their own GPOs.
Also interesting is that the article reports that “not only do hospitals want GPOs to deliver price deals on medical supplies, but they want them to offer services and results. Those services include data analysis and supply-chain management services.” Read more
