Supply Chain

The Metrix Company, a Dubuque, Iowa-based medical devicemaker, is recalling more than 120 lots of its empty IV bags due to the potential for leaks that could cause serious infections.

Viant has acquired Meraqi Medical, which is the fourth acquisition the contract device maker made in the last two years.

Hospitals and integrated delivery networks rely on a wide range of medical devices to deliver safe and effective clinical care. The good news is that suppliers are continually launching new, innovative products to address patient needs. The challenge for supply chain leaders, however, is managing…

Hospitals across the country are running out of skin tests for latent tuberculosis, according to Spectrum News 1.

In the past, health system leaders were almost solely concerned with delivering clinical excellence to patients. Operating efficiency wasn’t as essential to success as it is now — striking the right balance between clinical excellence and operating efficiency has become…

An Illinois judge approved a consent agreement Sept. 6 that could allow medical device sterilizer Sterigenics to reopen its Willowbrook, Ill. location, Medical Design & Outsourcing reported.

A new "supercooling" technique extends the amount of time a liver can be stored outside of a body to a day and a half, according to New Scientist.

Although concern for opioid abuse has not waned in 2019, sales of implantable medical devices that can be used as an alternative solution to chronic pain have, according to the Star Tribune.

The U.S. trade war with China threatens to hit hospitals and health systems as well as consumers in the form of higher prices and product shortages, the president of medical supply distributor DealMed told Yahoo Finance.

Ten hospitals and health systems have posted job listings seeking supply chain expertise in the last week: