Supply Chain

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic put out an urgent call for blood donations March 15 after a surge left its blood bank with depleted supplies, according to the Post-Bulletin.

Hospitals and other healthcare providers nationwide are facing a major shortage of injectable opioid painkillers used to treat intense pain, trauma and patients undergoing major surgeries, reports STAT.

Medtronic's Guardian Connect continuous glucose monitoring system earned FDA approval March 12.

Centene Corp. invested an undisclosed sum and partnered with RxAdvance, a national pharmacy benefit manager for health plans, ACOs, Medicaid programs and employer groups.

Chicago-based OpenMarkets entered a multiyear partnership with St. Louis-based Resource Optimization & Innovation to improve ROi members' capital equipment strategy.

We Are Blood, the only blood supplier for hospitals in central Texas, is running dangerously low on O-negative blood and platelet donations, according to KVUE.

Nearly a quarter (23 percent) of prescriptions filled in 2013 were likely overpaid, according to recent research out of the USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics in Los Angeles.

CVS stands accused of boosting its profits by overbilling Medicaid managed-care companies for medications and underpaying pharmacists for the drugs in an effort to push out competition in Ohio — a charge the pharmacy giant denies, according to The Columbus…

A recent article from Cardinal Health shares best practices for benchmarking at your hospital pharmacy

Toronto-based Laborie Medical Technologies will acquire Minnetonka, Minn.-based Cogentix Medical for $239 million.