title: An outside job.
abstract: Would you turn the management of clinical assets over to an outside company? More and more hospitals are doing it. Here, two executives from a Bellevue WA hospital explain how "outsourcing" is working for them.
authors.affiliation: Overlake Hospital Medical Center, Bellevue, WA, USA.
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authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gibson
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authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jergenson
mesh_terms: D002204:Capitation Fee; D003284:Contract Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003363:Cost Control / Q000379:methods; D004865:Equipment and Supplies, Hospital / Q000191:economics; D006744:Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299; D017721:Hospital Costs; D007755:Laboratories, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017146:Models, Organizational; D011872:Radiology Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014861:Washington