Supply Chain
Long wait times, crowded waiting rooms, and frustrated staff are often symptoms of inefficient workflows driven by physical space constraints.…
UC San Diego Health is launching a drone transport program in collaboration with UPS to speed up delivery time of medical samples, supplies and documents between its hospitals.
Supplies of medical masks are dwindling at drugstores and online retail platforms as people across the globe race to buy them amid the coronavirus outbreak, according to Bloomberg.
Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health is moving to one group purchasing organization in an effort to better integrate supply chain operations at its 137 hospitals and 700 other care sites.
King Systems is recalling 171 of its laryngoscope adapters after finding they display a reversed image, the company announced Jan. 24.
Medical device industry lobbying spiked in the last quarter of 2019 as AdvaMed, the industry's largest trade group, nearly tripled its spending, according to Politico's Prescription Pulse newsletter.
In recent months, several medical device sterilization plants have been forced to shut down among rising concerns that ethylene oxide, a chemical used to sterilize more than half of the country's medical devices, can cause cancer.
Cardiology device revenues are expected to grow faster than the rest of the medical device industry in the coming years, according to a Moody's Investors Service report cited by Medtech Dive.
Ten hospitals and health systems posted job listings for supply chain expertise in the last week:
Cardinal Health issued a voluntary recall of 9.1 million surgical gowns, a company spokesperson confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review.
The FDA approved Jan. 21 Medtronic's Micra AV, the world's smallest pacemaker with atrioventricular synchrony, according to the company.