Value-based procurement: What's in it for provider supply chains? The answers are CLEAR -- no hardball.

The article discusses the principles of value-based procurement for provider supply chains in health care systems. Areas that need change in healthcare delivery include pathway and patient flow inefficiency, supply chain fragility, product saturation, slow pace of innovation and lack of focus on customer service. It identifies challenges to value-based procurement including lack of understanding on how to sell and buy value and lack of transparency and trust in buyer-supplier relationship.