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Prodigo Solutions Vendor Introduction: Analysis, SWOT, Checklist (Part 2 — Product Strengths and Weaknesses) - [PRO Content]
July 11, 2019 | Nick Heinzmann
In our last Spend Matters PRO brief, we introduced you to Prodigo, an 11-year-old provider based near Pittsburgh that is deploying a platform that’s specific to healthcare procurement and contract management. With 20% of the U.S.’s largest integrated delivery networks (IDNs) and more than 30% of Gartner’s top hospital supply chain departments as customers, Prodigo…
Prodigo Solutions: Vendor Analysis (Part 1 — Background and Solution Overview) - [PRO Content]
July 10, 2019 | Nick Heinzmann
Rogue spend is a common problem for procurement in all industries, but in healthcare the issue is on a whole other level. Whereas the typical organization can see about 30% of indirect spend that falls into the off-contract category, that number can climb to as much as 60%. There are multiple factors that drive these…
HealthTrust: Healthcare GPO Provider Summary — Introduction, Summary Analysis, SWOT and Customer Engagement Tips - [PRO Content]
July 5, 2018 | Tom Finn
Through a combination of organic growth industry consolidation, three group purchasing organization (GPO) providers have come to dominate the healthcare market. These providers — Vizient, Premier and HealthTrust — control nearly 75% of spend in the healthcare GPO market. Despite this level of consolidation, the three competitors have, in certain cases, targeted different markets and…
Premier: Healthcare GPO Provider Summary — Introduction, Summary Analysis, SWOT and Customer Engagement Tips - [PRO Content]
July 3, 2018 | Tom Finn
Through a combination of organic growth industry consolidation, three group purchasing organization (GPO) providers have come to dominate the healthcare market. These providers — Vizient, Premier and HealthTrust — control nearly 75% of spend in the healthcare GPO market. Despite this level of consolidation, the three competitors have, in certain cases, targeted different markets and…
Vizient: Healthcare GPO Provider Summary — Introduction, Summary Analysis, SWOT and Customer Engagement Tips - [PRO Content]
June 28, 2018 | Tom Finn
Through a combination of organic growth industry consolidation, three group purchasing organization (GPO) providers have come to dominate the healthcare market. These providers — Vizient, Premier and HealthTrust — control nearly 75% of spend in the healthcare GPO market. Despite this level of consolidation, the three competitors have, in certain cases, targeted different markets and…
The Healthcare Group Purchasing Organization Landscape (Part 3): Key Takeaways and Customer Recommendations - [PRO Content]
June 27, 2018 | Tom Finn
This Spend Matters PRO series explores the history and current state of the healthcare group purchasing organization (GPO) market. In this third installment, we provide key takeaways for the industry, analyze emerging trends in the market and offer customer recommendations. For background on the GPO market, we encourage you to start here with our two…
The Healthcare Group Purchasing Organization Landscape (Part 2): Market Critiques and Effects of Consolidation - [PRO Content]
June 26, 2018 | Tom Finn
This Spend Matters PRO series provides an introduction to the healthcare GPO market. Today in Part 2, we summarize healthcare GPO criticisms and survey the effects of consolidation in two GPO contexts (member consolidation and GPO M&A). We also discuss how models are bifurcating. For background on the GPO market, review our two earlier briefs,…
The Healthcare Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) Landscape: Background, History and Introduction (Part 1) - [PRO Content]
June 25, 2018 | Tom Finn
This Spend Matters PRO research series provides both an insider’s take on the healthcare GPO market from an industry perspective and an “outside-in” analysis of the market based on norms in the procurement industry overall. For an introduction to GPO models not specific to healthcare, including how they work and ways in which the GPO…
Prodigo and Healthcare – Customer Case Studies and Applying Lessons Learned to Cross-Industry Procurement - [PRO Content]
August 6, 2015 | Jason Busch
Prodigo, a procure-to-pay (P2P) technology specialist in the healthcare market, has a lot to offer procurement organizations. We began our discussion on the provider in Part 1 of this multi-part Spend Matters PRO research brief. Today, we share stories from Prodigo customers who we have had a chance to speak to and who are supporting…
Cross-Industry P2P Lessons From Healthcare, Courtesy of Prodigo - [PRO Content]
August 4, 2015 | Jason Busch
Occasionally, a procurement technique or solution approach we see in healthcare potentially brings broad applicability to other sectors as well. We’ve learned over many years that most solutions in this market are highly bespoke given all the challenges associated with managing complex (and specialized) product information, physician preference items, billing and reimbursement and attributes unique…

Incremental to exponential: 5 overlooked benefits of procurement automation : Michael Shaw said : Good summary. Great points, Alan....

Modernizing the healthcare supply chain in the coronavirus era : Jam Saeed Ahmed said : yes, investments in advanced manufacturing capabilities make it easier to build products in the Unit...

'Sell me this procure-to-pay solution' : Thierry Jaffry said : I truly agree with Mark's analysis. And I would add a couple of things from the SI point of view: mo...

What Really Drives Valuation For Technology Companies These Days? : Pranav Trivedi said : Interesting read indeed !...

'Sell me this procure-to-pay solution' : Jason Busch said : To be revisited! I've been involved in far too boring stuff of late, but I too look forward to the r...