Power and Purchasing: Why Strategic Purchasing Fails [PDF]
Milbank Quarterly, 2020 Policy PointsStrategically purchasing health care has been and continues to be a popular policy idea around the world.Key asymmetries in information, market power, political power, and financial power hinder the effective implementation of strategic purchasing.Strategic purchasing has consistently failed to live up to its promises for these reasons ...
Katarzyna Klasa +2 more
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Purchasing's strategic relevance [PDF]
Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, 2003 Recently Ramsay (2001) applied the resource based view of the firm (RBV) to argue that purchasing is a largely irrelevant activity from a strategic management point of view. In this paper it will be argued to the contrary on several grounds.
Mol, Michael J., Mol, M.J.
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The strategic fit between strategic purchasing and purchasing involvement: the moderating role of leadership styles [PDF]
International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, 2023 Purpose – The aim of this study is to investigate and examine the impact of strategic purchasing practices on strategic fit by analysing the influence of strategic purchasing practices on purchasing involvement in business strategy formulation with path ...
Ismail Abushaikha +9 more
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Health Systems & Reform, 2022 Embodied in the goals of universal health coverage (UHC) are societal norms about ethics, equity, solidarity, and social justice. As African countries work toward UHC, it is important for their governments to use all available resources, knowledge, and ...
Cheryl Cashin +4 more
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A comprehensive review on strategic purchasing of diagnostic imaging services. [PDF]
J Educ Health PromotDiagnostic imaging services are one of the rapidly growing services in the healthcare industry and policymakers consider containing the cost of such services as a way to reduce the total cost of healthcare services.
Soltan-Tajian A +2 more
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Components that affect the Implementation of Health Services' Strategic Purchasing: A Comprehensive Review of the Literature. [PDF]
Electron Physician, 2016 Introduction: Strategic purchasing is one of the mechanisms that can increase access, equity, and efficiency as well as the correct management of health resources.
Bastani P, Samadbeik M, Kazemifard Y.
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Designing a strategic purchasing framework for urban primary healthcare services in Bangladesh: a protocol for a mixed-method study with a discrete choice experiment. [PDF]
BMJ OpenIntroduction Rapid urbanisation in Bangladesh has posed significant challenges to the urban health system, particularly in the delivery of primary healthcare (PHC).
Naznin B +8 more
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Strategic Purchasing Management
, 2011 Purchasing is at the heart of any supply chain. Purchasing needs to be strategic to facilitate an effective supply chain. Within this chapter, I will explore corporate planning, purchasing planning and strategies, corporate and environmental factors and ...
Michael Quayle
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What's Needed to Develop Strategic Purchasing in Healthcare? Policy Lessons from a Realist Review. [PDF]
Int J Health Policy Manag, 2019 Background In the context of serious concerns over the affordability of healthcare, various authors and international policy bodies advise that strategic purchasing is a key means of improving health system performance. Such advice is typically informed
Sanderson J, Lonsdale C, Mannion R.
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Strategic Purchasing for Better Health in Armenia [PDF]
, 2020 This report is an activity under the technical support towards universal health coverage in Armenia, which includes advisory services and analytics aimed at supporting the government’s efforts to expand access to high-quality health care.
Meessen, Bruno +4 more
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