Neil Olderman, partner at law firm Drinker Biddle &Reath and president of consulting firm Innovative Health Strategies shared his supply chain expertise with Becker's ASC Review, including the trends to watch.
A supply chain insight he shared:
"As in other instances within healthcare, we expect to see a cottage industry emerge around improving outcomes and the patient experience in the outpatient surgery setting. We anticipate that GPOs will continue to increase the quantity and quality of the consulting services that they offer to their members — similar to the transition that IBM made, starting in the 1990s, from a company that made most of its money from relatively low-margin hardware to high-margin services."