Supply Chain

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center is an academic medical center with more than 20 centers and institutes across central Ohio.

The FDA on March 27 permitted the marketing of the Dexcom G6 integrated continuous glucose monitoring system for diabetes patients age 2 and older.

FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, expressed concern over the consolidating pharmacy benefit manager market and drug supply chain March 28 at CNBC's Healthy Returns conference in New York, according to Reuters.

Forty percent of healthcare providers have canceled a surgery and 69 percent of providers have rescheduled a surgery due to a lack of medical supplies, according to a survey conducted by Cardinal Health.

Although patients know hospital trips are expensive, they still often experience sticker shock when they view their medical bills — especially when these bills are itemized.

Last October, Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown signed a drug pricing transparency law, making California the first U.S. state to pass such legislation. While the law went into effect in January, it remains unclear whether it will successfully lower drug prices,…

Vas Narasimhan, MD, who assumed the CEO role at Novartis in February, has an infatuation with technology and thinks his drug company is ready to embrace it, according to Forbes.

Prices for many of the 20 most commonly prescribed brand-name drugs to Medicare Part D beneficiaries rose nearly 10 times more than the cost of inflation over a five-year period, according to a report released March 26 by Sen. Claire…

GlaxoSmithKline will purchase Novartis' 36.5 percent stake in their consumer healthcare joint venture for $13 billion, according to Reuters.

Operating room (OR) surgeons and nurses face extraordinary challenges, to say the least. The OR is among the most expensive hospital areas to run1, as well as one of the most stressful.