Supply Chain
Long wait times, crowded waiting rooms, and frustrated staff are often symptoms of inefficient workflows driven by physical space constraints.…
Three Democratic senators are requesting additional information about the FDA's Pre-Cert for Software Pilot Program, a streamlined regulatory pathway for digital health technologies that the agency unveiled in July 2017.
LifeSouth Community Blood Center, a major blood supplier to hospitals in Florida, Alabama and Georgia, is urging the public to donate blood after Hurricane Michael slammed the region, the company tweeted Oct. 11.
Hospital executives should promote and support the professional development of their pharmacy staffs, especially as PharmD program enrollment drops, C-suite positions for pharmacy leaders emerge and pharmacists begin to lead more strategic initiatives, said Matthew Wolf, group vice president of…
Celebrating the hardworking professionals who contribute to our healthcare supply chain.
Cardinal Health
National Healthcare Supply Chain Week, sponsored by the Association for Healthcare Resource and Materials Management, recognizes the crucial role supply chain professionals play in delivering high-quality patient care while reducing costs for their organization. This year, the celebration takes place…
MiMedx Group, a Marietta, Ga.-based biopharmaceutical company that is a major supplier to government-run hospitals, allegedly left cheaper products out of its offerings to Veterans Affairs hospitals across the nation, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Here are four drugs or medical devices that have been approved by the FDA since Sept. 28:
U.S. hospitals spend more on prescription drugs than their peers in European countries, and the same is true for medical devices, a new study published in Health Affairs suggests. In some cases, hospitals in the U.S. paid six times more…
A new pharma advocacy group is defending high prescription drug list prices and speaking out against insurers and pharmacy benefit managers, STAT reports.
Seven major health systems joined forces to form a nonprofit generic drug company, named Civica Rx, to address drug shortages and combat the rising price of medications.