Workshops

Healthcare systems need to do a better job in those areas of spending they can control, such as sourcing. Management often succumbs to pressure from physicians and suppliers, but if they take a detailed look at wasteful spending, they can respond to those pressures in a positive, educated way. Two areas ripe with this kind of potential are “physician preference” and “clinical preference” items. Physician and clinical preference items are those high-cost items that often have lower-cost, functional equivalents on the market, but that physicians or clinicians have come to prefer through training, familiarity or habit.