Vendor relationships in healthcare today are about so much more than buying products and services—they are about true partnerships. But what makes a successful partnership? Joe Sasson offers a few suggestions of high-level questions that physician practices and hospitals should be asking their vendors to help find the partnerships that are right for them.

If nothing much has changed since your hospital merger, Anne Beekman suggests brushing off your merger strategy and focusing on duplicate program consolidation as well as standardization across the system.

Despite a recent study disputing the value of value-based purchasing programs in improving care, Joel Sauer argues that cardiovascular programs have implemented significant infrastructures around them.

What makes a great CV leader in today’s world? Ginger Biesbrock shares some of her lessons learned that are still essential: get out of the office, delegate, and know the difference between leadership and governance.

Increasingly, improved patient access is being linked to improved CV practice and program success. In this week’s blog post, Pat White offers a variety of reasons for and ways to improve your patient access. They include use of data, technology as well as referrals and workforce planning.

In health care today, we all have long lists of things that need our attention. What’s rising to the top of those lists right now? We surveyed cardiovascular health care leaders about their greatest concerns; in Part 2 of this blog post, we share more of the list we culled from the survey responses. And, for each issue, the MedAxiom Consulting team offers a “quick tip” to help you tackle it.