Supply Chain

The Forbes Healthcare Summit, which took placeoccurred in New York City last week, featured an unlikely critic of high drug prices: Regeneron Pharmaceutical's CEO Leonard Schleifer.

The Food and Drug Administration recently approved a new indication for Eli Lilly's diabetes drug Jardiance.

The ultimate goal of every healthcare team is to provide quality patient care, not to focus on materials management. For a supply chain to function seamlessly, though, products must be visible and accessible.

Apple plans to set up a distribution center in India to streamline supply chain operations, reports Economic Times.

Many cancer drugs that gain accelerated approval in the U.S. often stay approved despite later studies showing no real survival benefits, according to a new study featured in JAMA Internal Medicine.

A group of students from Sydney Grammar School in Australia recently developed the drug Daraprim — which has a list price of $750 — for about $2 per dose, reports Reuters.

 Wayne, Pa.-based Teleflex will purchase Minneapolis-based device maker Vascular Solutions for $56 per share, or about $1 billion.

Here are the five latest drugs or medical devices approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

In August, Indiana University Health broke ground on a $9 million* integrated service center in Plainfield, Ind., to improve medical supply distribution to the Indianapolis-based health system's hospitals and medical facilities across the state.

In 2014, Medical West Hospital (Bessemer, AL) was only one year away from its Joint Commission accreditation.