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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...