title: Can purchasing alliances adapt?
abstract: Hospital purchasing alliances' niche used to be buying products in bulk and passing on the savings to their members. Since multihospital networks often have enough economic clout to cut their own deals, alliances need to be more than go-betweens.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Montague
mesh_terms: D017046:Cost Savings / Q000379:methods; D017754:Group Purchasing / Q000639:trends*; D006273:Health Facility Merger / Q000191:economics; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000191:economics; D009935:Organizational Affiliation / Q000639:trends; D011682:Purchasing, Hospital / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States