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Group Purchasing Organizations: Optimizing Cardiac Device Selection, Therapy Delivery, and Fiscal Responsibility
Author(s) -
SWEESY MARK W.,
WILKOFF BRUCE L.,
SMITH KERRY W.,
HOLLAND JAMES L.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2006.00554.x
Subject(s) - medicine , guideline , purchasing , position statement , selection (genetic algorithm) , position (finance) , health care , statement (logic) , nursing , family medicine , medical emergency , marketing , finance , business , pathology , artificial intelligence , computer science , economics , political science , law , economic growth
Group purchasing organizations (GPOs) have played a major role in supporting health care delivery in recent years as the healthcare industry has faced stronger economic pressures. Consequently, a position statement was drafted to act as a guideline for a GPO in creating a fiscally responsible, yet unrestricted environment for physicians to select the most appropriate cardiac device for their patients. This cardiac device selection guideline is to be implemented in hundreds of member hospitals but may be of use in non‐member hospitals as well. The guideline will only be effective when the physicians or cardiac device caregivers have the knowledge and skills to optimally program and match device therapies and algorithms to individual patient needs.