Supply Chain

 Medpricer, the leading purchased services cost management solution for the healthcare industry, today introduced mSource® Insights, its latest spend analytics and reporting tool. It comes equipped with Medpricer’s Predictive Plan, which leverages insights to help supply chains build actionable project…

Summit Pacific Medical Center, a rural critical access hospital with 250 employees in Elma, Wash., was able to reduce procurement labor expenses by 80 percent and lower shipping costs by 60 percent in two years by working with Amazon Business.

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

Johnson & Johnson's acquisition of Auris Health, a maker of robotic diagnostics and surgical devices, tops market researcher EvaluatePharma's list of the 10 largest acquisitions  in medical technology this year. 

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defence will collaborate to create a centralized healthcare supply chain management system.

Ambu, a medical devicemaker based in Denmark, will pay $3.3 million to settle allegations it violated the False Claims Act by selling products to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Pentagon made in countries without U.S. trade agreements,…

Ridge Properties is recalling four lots of its 4 percent lidocaine topical cream and liquid gel products due to microbial contamination. The products also contained a higher potency of lidocaine than the label suggests.  

AmerisourceBergen, one of the major hospital suppliers in the U.S., will close its distribution center in Valencia, Calif., according to The Santa Clarita Valley Signal.

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

FedEx will end its ground-delivery contract with Amazon at the end of August, according to Bloomberg.