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Case Studies

Capital Equipment: Live Group Buy

"Saving Dollars and Days: Broadlane’s Live Group Buy Saves Hospitals Time and Money on a New CT Scanner" - Capital equipment purchases comprise a large portion of a hospital’s annual expense, and negotiating the purchase of that equipment also consumes valuable time and energy. Two Brim Healthcare hospitals realized the value of utilizing Broadlane’s Live Group Buy to purchase a new Computed Tomography (CT) scanner — saving months of research and negotiation time and approximately 25 percent of the cost.
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"Rural Hospital Saves Money on Capital Equipment Using Broadlane's Live Group Buy" - Rural hospitals face many challenges in today’s healthcare environment, including the acquisition of new capital equipment, especially when one piece of imaging equipment can cost as much or more than the facility’s yearly capital budget. Randolph Medical Center, an 80-bed facility in Roanoke, Alabama, was dealing with the challenge of buying a new Computed Tomography (CT) System. Specifically, they needed to determine and acquire the best technology to meet the current and future needs of their community, while remaining within their fiscal constraints.
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Clinical Programs: Process Improvement

"Broadlane's Procedure Optimization Program Targets Areas of Highest Supply Utilization to Dramatically Reduce Costs" - Broadlane’s Procedure Optimization Program identifies opportunities that offer greater cost savings and operational efficiencies by establishing quality indicators for procedures, recommending solutions and assembling a team to help implement those solutions. The program typically generates cost savings of 25 percent or more, with even larger gains in working capital and revenue capture.
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"Broadlane’s Orthopedic Program Meets Surgeons’ High Standards While Reducing Costs" - Broadlane works with its clients to develop orthopedic implant cost solutions that have helped hospitals achieve savings of as much as 10 percent to 40 percent. At one client in particular—a large 300-bed community facility that performs 1,250 implant cases per year — Broadlane focused on meeting surgeons’ high standards for performance and safety through a collaborative process that promoted partnership among hospital management, surgeons and nurses. Broadlane’s clinical consultants worked with hospital administrators and surgeons to identify patient-care goals, balance economic interests and produce measurable, sustainable results.
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"Broadlane’s Medication Use Management Program Drives Savings through Standardization and Utilization Initiatives" - Faced with a continuously increasing pharmacy spend, a large healthcare system turned to Broadlane to help drive down its annual spend on pharmaceuticals. Broadlane’s clinical pharmacists developed a customized Medication Use Management (MUM) program to combat the system’s rising pharmaceutical costs.
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"Broadlane’s Surgical Process Redesign Program Improves Efficiency and Generates Savings for U.K. Hospital System" - A large hospital system in the United Kingdom engaged Broadlane to help gain control over inefficiencies in its surgical process and utilization and come closer to best practices. The operating rooms were located at three separate locations, with multiple recovery areas used. Annual surgical case volume for the 23-suite surgical service was 28,900 cases, and the annual expenditure was £25 million (approximately $48 million).
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"Broadlane’s Cardiovascular Program Generates Significant Savings for Multi-Hospital Network" - Facing issues such as these, the chief executive officer and the executive staff of a large multi-hospital integrated delivery network were keen to take advantage of opportunities around the management of cardiology clinical preference item costs.
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"A Comprehensive Supply Chain Relationship with Broadlane Yields Impressive Financial and Operational Benefits for The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati" - The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati achieves excellence in purchasing through its partnership with Broadlane, including better financial returns and better products at the patient's bedside.
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"I.V. Supply Analysis and Standardization Program Customizes Initiatives to Hospital Needs and Generates Impressive Savings" - Broadlane led facility-based clinical practice groups to standardize practices and address specialty product use and needs, and emphasized the potential cost savings that could be generated through better management of supplies and product standardization. Broadlane also enhanced the utilization of existing contracts. As a result, Broadlane helped improve safety for practitioners via standardization and conversion to needle-safe products, while maintaining or improving patient outcomes. During the assessment, Broadlane clinicians were able to identify more than $1 million in potential savings.
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"Broadlane’s Skin and Wound Management Program Increases Patient Safety While Driving Significant Savings" - A multi-hospital system engaged Broadlane to help gain control over its steadily rising costs by assessing the effectiveness of its pressure ulcer prevention programs and increasing the efficacy and costeffective use of advanced wound care products, specialty beds and therapeutic surfaces.
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Client: The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati

"Value Analysis Teams Help The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati Involve Clinicians in Purchasing Decisions" - With Broadlane's assistance, The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati establishes a new governance structure to help manage its supply chain initiatives and promote accountability for purchasing and contract compliance.
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"Ongoing Compliance Management Ensures The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati Maximizes Supply Savings" - Broadlane helps The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati operationalize its purchasing decisions and realize savings goals by providing assistance with contract implementation and ongoing compliance management.
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"Broadlane Group Buys Bring Capital Purchasing Discipline and Savings to The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati" - The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati brings greater discipline to its procurement process for capital items and sees dramatic financial benefits as a result of its participation in Broadlane's Group Buys.
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"Clinician-Driven Contracting Strategy Helps The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati Save $1.5 Million Annually" - Since partnering with Broadlane, The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati has realized substantial economies of scale and significant savings by standardizing the supplies and equipment it purchases.
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Client: Wuestoff Health System

"Wuesthoff Health Systems' Search for Savings Yields $2.5 Million, with $1.5 Million Identified in Just Seven Months" - When George Fayer joined Wuesthoff Health Systems, Florida, as chief financial officer in April 2000, he asked the basic question that resonates with all hospital executives: "How can we manage operating costs more effectively?"  Fayer's search for answers led him to focus on supply expense, the second largest area of spend in most hospitals.  Thus began a process of that saved Wuesthoff - comprising 295-bed Wuesthoff Medical Center-Rockledge and Wuesthoff Medical Center-Melbourne as well as a network of affiliates - more than $1.5 million in annual supply spend in less than seven months and a total of $2.5 million in annualized P&L impact.
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Client: Continuum Health Partners

"Leading New York Healthcare Provider Enhances Operations, Lowers Costs by Tens of Millions of Dollars Annually with Broadlane's Supply Cost Management Expertise" - Hospitals in the greater New York metropolitan area are among the most financially distressed in the country. Declining reimbursements from government and insurance carriers, increasing costs of supplies and administration, and difficulty adapting to changing market conditions are creating a host of challenges for area hospitals. In fact, the financial issues facing New York City hospitals are so well known in the industry that supply vendors often provide longer-than-average payment terms for these facilities. In a Jan. 18, 2004, New York Times article an executive for the Healthcare Association of New York State was quoted, "In New York, all hospitals are in the same boat. If you're a hospital in New York, you're in trouble. In 2003, we set a record for hospital closures, seven - and more announced plans."
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White Papers

Broadlane's Procedure Optimization Program - The challenge for many hospital administrators is that they do not have the resources to fully identify and understand the factors driving their procedure costs.
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