Healthcare Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs) Poll Results Released
Nationwide poll highlights expected GPO power notwithstanding Senate investigation or NY Times investigative articles.
Mechanicsburg, PA (PRWEB via PR Web
Direct) January 19, 2005 –- Healthcare Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs)
will not only survive, but will thrive. That, according to a recently conducted
nationwide poll, is the expectation of hospitals and suppliers. The positive
outlook comes despite ongoing Senate investigations into GPO practices that has
led to the Medical Device Competition Act of 2004 (S. 2880), as introduced by
Senators Mike DeWine (R-OH) and Herb Kohl (D-WI), chairman and ranking member,
respectively, of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust,
Competition Policy and Consumer Rights.
How well will GPOs partner over
the next few years to suppliers and its membership? And which GPO is currently
the best partner? Those are just some of the answers that StratCenter.com’s
"Voice Your Opinion!" ("VYO!") Poll determined. This "VYO!" was submitted to the
entire readership of StratCenter.com’s Supply Chain Strategies e-Newsletter
during December 2004.
StratCenter.com is releasing its complete results
and is making its analysis and presentation available at no cost to qualified
business-of-healthcare executives via its website at: http://www.StratCenter.com/go/?11122.
"This "VYO!"
provides an important understanding into how the market views the role of GPOs,"
says Patrick Michael Plummer, Founder & CEO of StratCenter.com. "The poll
was broken down into three parts: Part I reports on GPO partnerships with its
members (hospitals, IDNs, non-acute care, etc.); Part II reports on GPO supplier
partnerships; and Part III answers the following question: 'If you could partner
with only one GPO, which one would you choose?'" This poll was conducted of
StratCenter.com's Supply Chain Strategies (SCS) e-newsletter readership in
December 2004.
The industry expects that GPOs are responding much more
aggressively to meet its members' needs, including the IDNs. Important to these
results, members are acknowledging GPOs to be a valuable business partner, and
are committing more allegiance to the GPOs in return. Novation came in tops
overall for being the best partner to its members.
Overall, the market
perception is that relationships between GPOs and suppliers will generally stay
about the same as today, with just slightly more respondents believing it will
deteriorate more than it will improve. Like the best partner to its membership,
Novation also came in tops.
Still, there remain significant concerns that
the Senate investigation into healthcare group purchasing, along with the
potential passage of the Medical Device Competition Act, poses a grave threat to
GPOs.
This "VYO!" poll reports on the seven (7) national GPOs in the
United States, including Amerinet, Broadlane, Consorta, HealthTrust Purchasing
Group, MedAssets, Novation, and Premier.
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/1/prweb199201.htm