Payroll Outsourcing Becomes Payday For Suppliers
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Payroll becomes the central focus of human resources outsourcing. This saves trees because paper forms become a thing of the past.
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Healthcare & Life Sciences
ASP Success in 2001: An ROI of 404%!
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
An IDC study reports ASPs earned a 404 percent return on investment last year. Not bad!
Maintaining a Healthy Output
Chris Pryer, Business Writer
Chicago Hope, meet High Tech. HP manages the printing in Switzerland with surgical precision.
IT Contracting With the Financially Challenged Survivors of the New Economy
Daniel Masur, Partner, Mayer, Brown & Platt
We all watched the dotcoms become dot bombs. But you still want to do business with one. Here’s how to structure your contract to lower the risk.
No Matter How You Slice It: Data Warehousing Solution
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
The plane that crashed into the Pentagon wiped out every accounting record for the entire year for one military service. Data warehousing can rebuild those records overnight.
Making Medical Claims More Accurate
Jerri L. Ledford, Business Writer
Eligibility errors are the number one reason to deny medical insurance claims. Outsourcing speeds dispute resolution.
Fewer HIPAA Headaches
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
April 2002. The impending deadline now shaping the future of privacy and security of patient information in the healthcare industry finds some organizations facing formidable challenges, for they must soon comply with the initial guidelines and standards set forth in the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The new security rules are not yet final, but healthcare organizations are turning quickly to service providers for solutions to protect the confidentiality of patient data.
Outsourcing Payroll Check Printing Pays Off
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Employees get a sinking feeling when they look at their paychecks and they’re wrong! If they believe the payroll department didn’t calculate their overtime properly or deducted too much for their health insurance, the first thing they do is reach for the telephone. Then, the payroll staff has to drop everything and reconstruct what happened to determine if they were paid the proper amount.
We’ve Only Just Begun
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Jane Drasites, Director, Benefits Delivery for BP Amoco, swears that the first year in an outsourcing relationship is just like a marriage. Some marriages don’t work very well. When Amoco (prior to its merger with BP) signed an agreement in 1993 for Hewitt Associates to handle its HR functions, it was positive it had found the right mate. Unfortunately, they didn’t go for some counseling before they tied the knot, and the honeymoon didn’t last long.
Delivering the Difference
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
If you’re a patient in the emergency room, you definitely want that hospital or trauma center to have all the necessary supplies on hand — from IVs and blood plasma to bandages and syringes. But the hospital can’t keep everything on hand; it’s in the patient care business, not inventory warehousing. So the doctors and nurses rely on medical distributors to be sure they have what’s needed — or can deliver it in a couple of hours for an emergency. Many of them depend on Owens & Minor, Inc. (O&M) and, in outsourcing their supplies process to O&M, they enjoy the added advantage of reduced costs.