Supply chain management in health care: New research focus

Eugene Schneller has been at the lead of research initiatives concerning the emergence of supply chain management in healthcare organizations. Recently Schneller talked with KnowWPCarey about the ways supply chain management can positively impact the revenue cycle and how healthcare reform is driving change. The Health Sector Supply Chain Research Consortium (HSRC-ASU) is a research group within the department of supply chain management at the W. P. Carey School of Business.

Health care reform: Experts ponder the impacts

For government and business, providers and patients, the U.S. health reform legislation promises a new world of costs and care. Most individuals without insurance will be able to get it. Those who have insurance already will probably have to pay more for it. Hospitals, doctors, and others in the front lines of health care will begin to change long established ways of doing business. State governments and many businesses will face new costs and possibly some benefits. But beyond these generalizations, little is certain about what health care reform will mean in Arizona and across the country. Experts at the School of Health Management and Policy at Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business examine the impact of the legislation on hospitals, doctors, businesses, states and insurers. This story was prepared in partnership with Arizona Business Magazine.

Reducing health care costs through supply chain management

In the national debate over how to make U.S. health care more efficient, one promising area for reform is often overlooked: supplies. Whether the products are knee implants, pacemakers or expensive medications, hospitals have long purchased whatever doctors desired with little discussion among the parties involved about cost. Researchers at the W. P. Carey School Business are trying to unravel the tangled supply relationships that drive up the cost of health care, burdening hospitals and frustrating efforts to expand coverage among the uninsured.

Podcast: Former Mayo Clinic CEO talks about reform and the health care delivery system in the U.S.

Dr. Denis A. Cortese recently retired from the Mayo Clinic, where he was president and CEO, and now leads the W. P. Carey School’s Health Care Delivery and Policy Program. This program is focused on facilitating and promoting a sustainable U.S. health care system. On January 19, Cortese addressed a luncheon meeting of business leaders at the Economic Club of Phoenix. Based at the W. P. Carey School of Business, the Economic Club of Phoenix is the only group of its kind in the nation that is aligned with a top research university.

Bending the health care cost curve with accountable, patient-centered, coordinated care

A comprehensive discussion of health care reform would include three issues, according to Stephen Shortell, dean of the School of Public Health at the University of California-Berkeley. Access to health care is certainly one issue, and the health reform bill as it’s being proposed would address it. Affordability and sustainability — not of health insurance but of health care itself — are important issues too. But, they "get relatively short shrift in the current legislation" according to Shortell, who spoke at the 3rd Annual Health Economics and Policy Lecture, hosted by the School of Health Management and Policy at the W. P. Carey School of Business.