The speakers presented two interesting ways to improve the value of what hospitals purchase. The first is to combine procurements in a large association to improve benchmarking of products and to increase savings. The second is to assign a monetary value to quality criteria. Both have really good track records in Europe, and both could help hospitals here get even better performance.

Press release available here.

The presentations may be found below:

Gunnar Goblirsch - Stockholm County Council, Sweden

Regina Bauer - GDEKK, Germany

Vlastimil Fidler - Ministry of Regional Development, Czech Republic