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Outsourcing has long been a buzzword in the business world, including the health care industry, but David Bussone wants to bring it to an area largely ignored among the nonprofit hospital sector.
Bussone has started his own company, Apparo Inc., to offer outsourced expertise in case management services.
"For any patient, a case manager facilitates patient care and makes sure that things are done and that they should be done on time," Bussone says. "Case management has been one of the last areas to not be done on an outsourced basis, and we think there is a niche there."
Bussone, a veteran of the health care industry who has worked as a CEO of several hospitals and most recently worked as a consultant for Cambio Health Solutions, formally opened Franklin-based Apparo this month along with partner and fellow health care executive Barbara Groux.
"I've been working in health care since I was 16. My first job was as...