Department of Veteran Affairs joins W.P. Carey consortium

In an effort to find ways to reduce spending on health care while maintaining coverage for veterans, the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs recently joined a research consortium put together by ASU’s W.P. Carey School of Business. The Carey School hosts the Health Sector Supply Chain Research Consortium, which consists of various leaders in the health field who work with researchers, most of whom are ASU faculty, to solve challenges facing the health field.

Other consortium members are hospitals, suppliers and medical supplies distributors, mostly private companies like Boston Scientific, Catholic Health Initiatives and Premier, Inc.; VA was the first public entity to join. “There are lessons to be learned from both sides,” said W.P. Carey professor and HSRC co-director Eugene Schneller. Schneller and others hope that VA takes methods learned from the private companies and that the private companies can learn from VA. “The companies involved in HSRC hope to provide for a comprehensive health care system,” Schneller said...