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Supply Chain

The supply chain poses a number of challenges for hospitals and health systems, and is often at the focal point of efforts to eliminate waste and reduce spending. A recent survey from MHI and Deloitte narrows in on the top…

B. Braun Medical, a German device maker with U.S. headquarters in Bethlehem, Pa., is set to pay up to $7.8 million to resolve its criminal liability for selling contaminated pre-filled saline flush syringes in 2007, which allegedly led to infections…

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Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock; San Francisco-based Dignity Health; La Crosse, Wis.-based Gundersen Health System; and Boston-based Partners HealthCare have collaborated with Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth to create a new marketplace for healthy and environmentally safe products.

In a recent press release, Gartner, Inc. has announced the winners of the 2016 Supply Chainnovator Awards. The awards recognize innovative and high-impact supply chain initiatives in the healthcare, high-tech manufacturing and consumer/retail sectors.

The high prices of chemotherapy drugs and the financial burden they pose on public programs, private insurers and patients is a major source of concern. However, addressing this problem through changes to drug negotiation rules, reimportation, price controls or patent…

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