title: Purchasing groups struggle to keep pace with members.
abstract: Hospital alliances and group purchasing organizations don't plan to stand still while mergers and acquisitions transform their traditional hospital members into integrated healthcare systems. Included are some survival strategies of the 10 largest groups responding to Modern Healthcare's 1995 group purchasing survey.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Scott
mesh_terms: D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated; D004865:Equipment and Supplies, Hospital / Q000600:supply & distribution; D017754:Group Purchasing / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009935:Organizational Affiliation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011682:Purchasing, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States