title: Unlikely GPO partners unite. Could Consorta and Healthtrust's collaboration spark a trend among the nation's other top group purchasing organizations?
abstract: Consorta's deal to become the sixth equity owner in HealthTrust Purchasing Group could signal a wave of consolidation at group-purchasing organizations. HealthTrust's clinically based decisionmaking for product selection and contract compliance are what swayed Consorta's board, says Chairman Louis Fierens, left. "It's about the total value, and it is at the end of the day a fairly simple equation", Fierens says.
authors.forename: Cinda
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Becker
mesh_terms: D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D017754:Group Purchasing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006777:Hospitals, Proprietary / Q000458:organization & administration; D016519:Hospitals, Religious / Q000458:organization & administration; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009935:Organizational Affiliation; D014481:United States