TractManager White Papers
With decades of experience in the trenches of healthcare, TractManager’s experts are industry thought leaders. Take advantage of their tips and best practices to improve your contracting lifecycle management, strategic sourcing, and provider management processes.

February 2, 2021 | Contract Analytics, Contract Lifecycle Management, Healthcare Compliance, MediTract, White Papers
Agnostic contracting systems are designed to serve diverse industries, not healthcare. This puts your compliance program at risk. Pairing an ERP solution with a healthcare-specific contract lifecycle management (CLM) solution links contractual and operational data ...

December 17, 2020 | Contract Lifecycle Management, Healthcare Compliance, White Papers
Many healthcare organizations struggle to comply with the Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law, HIPAA, and other regulations. The penalties for noncompliance are severe, so prevention is key. Compliance software helps you manage compliance risks and simplifies ...

October 6, 2020 | Spend Management, Strategic Sourcing, White Papers
How to Establish Healthier Vendor Relationships During and After the Pandemic: The COVID-19 pandemic has upended every aspect of daily life. Health systems and hospitals are no exception, especially because the pandemic exposed the myth that healthcare is recession-proof.

August 28, 2020 | Provider Evidence, Strategic Sourcing, Value Management, White Papers
High Reliability Organizations (HROs) are organizations that successfully avoid catastrophe, despite a high level of operational risk and complexity,1 creating innovations in policy and process that become models for other organizations to emulate.

August 25, 2020 | Credentialing, Enrollment, Healthcare Trends, Privileging, Provider Contracting, Provider Management, Provider Onboarding, White Papers
Many healthcare organizations are struggling financially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Volume and revenue declines have resulted in plummeting margins, which were a whopping 326 percent below budget in April 2020. Razor-thin margins have created staff and ...

August 13, 2020 | Contract Analytics, Contract Lifecycle Management, Healthcare Compliance, MediTract, White Papers
You Can’t Control Your Costs If You Can’t Control Your Contracts. As part of TractManager’s ongoing commitment to innovative thinking in healthcare contracting, sourcing, and evidence-based research, this white paper discusses centralizing, standardizing, and ...

August 10, 2020 | Credentialing, Enrollment, Healthcare Trends, Provider Management, White Papers
The past 8 to 10 years have been transformative for the healthcare industry. The 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (aka ARRA, aka Stimulus Program) brought with it unprecedented incentives for healthcare providers to widely adopt electronic health records ...

June 22, 2020 | Contract Analytics, Contract Lifecycle Management, Healthcare Trends, Provider Analytics, Provider Contracting, Provider Management, Purchased Services, Spend Management, Strategic Sourcing, Supply Chain, Value Management, White Papers
Beginning the Journey to Hospital Financial Wellness – While hospitals and health systems have gotten better at promoting healthy habits and preventive strategies for common threats to individual and population health, they have struggled to maintain their own ...

April 10, 2020 | Credentialing, Provider Management, Provider Onboarding, White Papers
That is the Credentialing Question – Credentialing is one of many quality management tools that healthcare organizations implement to monitor patient safety. While most will agree that it plays a valuable role in establishing and governing high-quality provider ...

January 30, 2020 | Provider Evidence, Strategic Sourcing, Value Management, White Papers
How health systems mature from event-based decisions to a value-focused culture of collaboration – The modern American health system is an extremely complex environment characterized by a state of constant flux. Driven by both healthcare reform and technological ...

January 30, 2020 | Contract Analytics, Contract Lifecycle Management, Healthcare Compliance, MediTract, White Papers
In healthcare, successful contract lifecycle management means centralizing, standardizing, and optimizing data and processes – Contracts store some of a health system’s most valuable information. While the basic terms and conditions they contain are carefully ...

January 28, 2020 | Capital, Purchased Services, Spend Management, Strategic Sourcing, White Papers
Skilled negotiators are like musical virtuosos. They have an extensive repertoire of tactics from which to draw, and they know when and how to make them a part of their performance. But negotiating healthcare contracts for capital, purchased services, and IT ...

January 28, 2020 | Capital, Provider Evidence, Strategic Sourcing, Value Management, White Papers
The Strategic Role of Clinical Evidence in Value-Based Healthcare Capital Planning – Planning for healthcare capital expenditures is a high-visibility process involving multiple stakeholders: clinicians, bioengineering, finance, purchasing, and value analysis, to ...

January 26, 2020 | Professional Services, Strategic Sourcing, Value Management, White Papers
The Journey from the Triple Aim to the Quadruple Aim – Since 2008, healthcare professionals have been rising to the challenges issued by the Triple Aim. Developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, this framework aims to optimize operations around three ...