title: Supply chain: optimization through collaboration.
abstract: A panel of hospital leaders and other experts discuss how organizations can reduce costs and enhance the value of their supply purchases--an imperative at a time of rising prices and tightening reimbursements. One major challenge: How to gain greater physician support for those efforts.
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D017046:Cost Savings / Q000379:methods*; D004469:Economics, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006270:Health Facility Administrators; D006801:Humans; D008421:Materials Management, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010819:Physician's Role; D014481:United States