Optimizing the way products are received and stored is a key strategy hospitals can use to contain distribution costs, eliminate waste, free up storage and reduce touches by staff throughout the supply chain, according to Matt Bruggeman, director of solutions development for the Presource Products and Services business at Cardinal Health

Supply chain management costs consistently rank as a top expense for hospitals and health systems — prompting leaders to be on the lookout for new ways to save money.  

About 500 employees at Redwood Memorial Hospital in Fortuna, Calif., and St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka, Calif., will walk off the job  Nov. 20, according to the Times-Standard.

Walmart opened its first freestanding health center in September, and the retail giant is planning to open several more, President and CEO Doug McMillon said in management's commentary accompanying Walmart's third-quarter results.

Healthcare investment banker Cain Brothers recently filed a lawsuit against DeKalb Medical Center in Decatur, Ga., claiming the hospital owes more than $4.7 million in financial advisory fees associated with the hospital's merger with Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare, according to Law.com.

Stan Huff, MD, chief medical informatics officer at Intermountain Healthcare, discusses the Salt Lake City-based health system's approach to interoperability and how to apply it beyond data sharing.

Dollar Tree received and sold over-the-counter drugs produced by foreign drugmakers that routinely violated federal law, according to a Nov. 14 warning letter from the FDA.

Hospitals seeking to implement remote patient monitoring technologies are looking for vendors who can offer patient-centric software and solutions that engage the patient in their own care, according to a recent KLAS Research report.

All brand-name drugmakers could collectively lose more than $1 trillion and the pharmaceutical industry would still be the most profitable sector, according to an analysis published Nov. 14 by West Health Policy Center and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.

Many U.S. nurses are holding down multiple jobs, according to a new survey from AMN Healthcare.

As vice president and CIO, Michael Jefferies spearheaded Boulder (Colo.) Community Health's recent EHR transition to Epic.

New York City is the most innovative city in the world, according to 2thinknow's annual analysis, which also saw San Francisco drop several spots due to the ongoing housing crisis and controversies associated with the many tech companies headquartered there.

West Virginia has the highest rate of children affected by the opioid epidemic, with 54 of every 1,000 children in the state affected in 2017, according to a Nov. 13 report from United Hospital Fund and Boston Consulting Group.  

The future of healthcare will be shaped by the industry's use of data, Kevin Sayer, CEO of Dexcom, a maker of continuous glucose monitoring systems, told CNBC's Jim Cramer.

Indiana Health Information Exchange and Michiana Health Information Network will integrate their services and operations to provide health information exchange support across Indiana, according to a Nov. 14 news release.

Though chief marketing officers are traditionally overlooked to fill openings on corporate boards, their singular consumer-centric expertise makes them an invaluable asset to any board, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Harry Shum, PhD, executive vice president of Microsoft's artificial intelligence and research group since its founding in 2016, will leave the company in early 2020, CNBC reports.

Executive outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas estimates that the distraction of the impeachment hearings will cost businesses about $2.1 billion an hour, Fast Company reports.

Despite openly disagreeing with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren's single-payer healthcare plan, Moody's Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi says the numbers check out, and the Democratic presidential candidate's plan is fully financed without adding a new tax on the middle class, according to an op-ed he wrote for CNN Business.

Virginia Tech will establish a pediatric biomedical research lab on the new innovation campus at Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C., the first campus of its kind for pediatric research.