Supply Chain

Here are four drugs or medical devices that have been approved by the FDA since Aug. 24:

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente is altering an EpiPen prescription policy after reportedly receiving complaints from patients, according to a CBS SF Bay Area investigation.

The Blood Bank of Hawaii is urgently seeking blood donors after severe weather pummeled the region and depleted supplies, according to Hawaii News Now.

As Hurricane Irma bore down on Florida, officials at Baptist Health South Florida—a health system with 10 acute care in-patient facilities; more than 70 outpatient facilities including urgent care, imaging and surgery center locations; and more than 41 physician offices…

Here are the four latest drugs or medical devices approved by the FDA since Aug. 17:

Rather than issuing a recall, medical device managers rely on their physician-customers to screen out defective products and not use them on patients, a new behavioral study published in the Journal of Operations Management suggests.  

Acquired hospitals only save about 1.5 percent annually on common expenses in the healthcare supply chain after a deal — significantly less than hospitals estimate when defending their potential merger, according to a new report by the National Bureau of…

The Texas Drug Utilization Review Board, which recommends medications for the state's Medicaid preferred drug list, is demanding that physicians and others who comment at its meetings disclose their ties to drug companies, according to NPR.

Here are the five latest drugs or medical devices approved by the FDA since Aug. 10:

The "stigma" surrounding cybersecurity disclosures is beginning to wane, encouraging more medical device vendors to release alerts about their products over the past two years, according to a MedCrypt report.