The Outsourcing Trap - What Hospitals Miss Before Signing

<p>Melissa Butterworth discusses the potential pitfalls of outsourcing a laboratory, highlighting the importance of careful consideration and strategic planning. She emphasizes the need for hospital executives to ask critical questions before making the decision to outsource.</p><p></p><p>Takeaways</p><ul><li>Outsourcing can solve real problems for systems that lack the scale to run a competitive lab alone.</li><li>Hospital executives should consider the long-term implications and have a detailed operational plan for rebuilding in-house if the outsourcing relationship doesn't work out.</li></ul><p></p><p>Chapters</p><ul><li>00:00 Introduction and Fun Fact</li><li>00:58 Becoming a Godmother and Return to the Episode</li><li>01:28 The Outsourcing Trap</li><li>01:55 Why Hospitals Outsource Labs</li><li>02:53 The Downstream Effects of Outsourcing</li><li>03:52 Costly Consequences of Poorly Structured Outsourcing</li><li>04:48 Critical Questions for Hospital Executives</li><li>06:14 Final Thoughts and Contact Information</li></ul>