An affiliate of San Francisco-based Thoma Bravo, a private equity investment firm, has acquired Louisville, Colo.-based Global Healthcare Exchange, a private healthcare supply chain provider, for an undisclosed amount.
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The National Institutes of Health has joined forces with 10 biopharmaceutical companies and seven nonprofit organizations to create the Accelerated Medicines Partnership, a five-year, $230 million joint initiative geared toward producing drugs more quickly.
An organization focused on green practices and sustainability at healthcare organizations has developed guidance to help hospitals better manage their supply chain.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared Yoqneam, Israel-based Given Imaging's PillCam COLON for use for patients after an incomplete optical colonoscopy, according to a Given Imaging news release.
The first post-approval Nanostim leadless pacemaker, the first leadless pacemaker in the world, was implanted in a patient in Spain, according to a news release from St. Paul, Minn.-based St. Jude Medical, the manufacturer of the pacemaker.
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Mundelein, Ill.-based Medline has acquired Temecula, Calif.-based Professional Hospital Supply and all of PHS' related facilities, according to a news release.
Winter is upon us, yet too often cold weather scenario planning is an afterthought for supply chain managers. But blizzards and ice storms are relatively common occurrences with a number of solutions to overcome challenges. Recent arctic blasts serve as…
A Research and Markets report projects the global infection control market to be worth $14 billion in 2017, increasing by 33 percent from 2012.
Measurements of technological accuracy are important when selecting speech-recognition software, but comparisons are accuracy measurements are moot since there is no standardized way to measure these rates, according to a whitepaper released by Franklin, Tenn.-based M*Modal.
The global medical imagining equipment market is expected to reach $35.35 billion by 2019, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 5.4 percent, according to a news release from Transparency Market Research.