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Lower Cost for the Healthcare System

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By: Michael Barbella

Managing Editor

How is your company planning to assist the healthcare system in improving efficiencies and lower costs? What systems in your medical specialty or adjacent to it need improvement? There is profit in providing improved financial outcomes in all of healthcare. How will you identify them?

References:

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  2. IBISWorld Industry Report 62199, Blood & Organ Banks in the U.S., October 2012
  3. www.bloodbook.com/facts.html
  4. Tobias JD. “Strategies for minimizing blood loss in orthopedic surgery.” Seminars in Hematology. 2004, 41(1 Suppl 1), Pages 145-156
  5. www.pfiedler.com/ce/1156/1156.pdf

Editor’s note: Readers are invited to submit market data and trend questions to Maria Shepherd. Periodically, selected questions will be presented in this column, with answers from Maria. Send your questions to [email protected].

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