The Preference Group™
A Division of Broadlane®

The Preference Group™ is Broadlane’s team of clinical experts who consult with healthcare facilities to develop and deploy clearly defined operational and clinical approaches to enhance resource utilization and improve operational efficiencies. Through rigorous and comprehensive processes, The Preference Group facilitates changes to reduce variability and unnecessary use, lower costs, improve utilization and enhance data management.

The Preference Group’s team of experienced healthcare professionals works with hospital leadership and clinicians to create and implement tailored operational processes and clinical strategies to achieve desired results. By continually working to deploy industry-leading solutions for the challenges that hospitals routinely face, The Preference Group consistently delivers significant cost savings and operational improvements.

Our programs include: 

• Medication Use Management
• Orthopedic Management Program
• Procedure Optimization Program

• Medication Use Management
  The Preference Group has helped healthcare organizations achieve savings of up to 5 percent of total spend in their pharmacy programs without compromising patient care. Our Medication Use Management Program uses evidence-based medicine standards to support cost effective therapies that maintain or improve clinical outcomes.
  
  The Preference Group’s pharmacy consulting team uses a collaborative approach that involves your pharmacists, medical staff, clinicians and hospital executives to develop and drive initiatives. We provide you with the resources to identify, implement, manage and sustain strategic cost savings, which can result in:
  • Cost savings
  • Cost avoidance through appropriate utilization
  • Reduced patient length of stay, resulting in lower cost-per-patient-day
  • Increased patient safety, reducing liability risk
  • More efficient use of resources
  • Improved quality of care
  • Improved teamwork through education and empowerment

• Orthopedic Management Program
  The Preference Group works with healthcare facilities across the country to develop orthopedic solutions that have helped them achieve savings of as much as 40 percent. We can help deploy an orthopedic management program to capture significant savings and enhance orthopedics utilization by:
  • Assisting you with local contracting for orthopedic implants
  • Outlining negotiation strategies that align hospital and physician goals
  • Providing ongoing orthopedics utilization and price compliance reporting
  • Comparing your implant utilization trends against nationally accepted standards

Our approach is focused on meeting surgeons’ high standards for performance and safety. Broadlane’s collaborative process promotes partnership among hospital management, surgeons and nurses. We work with you and your surgeons to identify patient-care goals, balance economic interest and produce measurable results.

• Procedure Optimization Programs
  The Preference Group’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 you implement those solutions. Our approach provides you with:
  • Consistency and time efficiencies in the care delivery process
  • Product standardization
  • Reduced inventory levels
  • Reduced procedural costs
  • Improved interdepartmental communication

• Cardiovascular Program
• Custom Procedure Tray Utilization Program
• Emergency Department Redesign
• I.V. Supplies Analysis and Standardization
• Pharmacy Operations Assessment
• Reprocessing of Single-Use Devices
• Surgical Process Redesign Program
• Therapy Bed and Wound Care Program