Supply Chain
Long wait times, crowded waiting rooms, and frustrated staff are often symptoms of inefficient workflows driven by physical space constraints.…
Analyzing and re-considering healthcare purchased services can help hospitals save up to 30 percent on their operating budgets.
Memphis, Tenn.-based Wright Medical Group has acquired Salt Lake City-based OrthroPro, a company that creates products for foot and ankle surgery, for $32.5 million.
An outbreak of Burkholderia cepacia complex was linked to a contamination in the hospital's institutional compounding facility, according to a report in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Brentwood, Tenn.-based HealthTrust has selected Farmers Branch, Texas-based Techway Services to provide IT asset recovery and recycling services for HealthTrust member facilities, according to a Techway Services news release.
Cleveland-based CHAMPS Healthcare's Group Purchasing division has entered a three-year contract-pricing agreement with Mundelein, Ill.-based Medline offering CHAMPS members savings on custom procedure trays and sterile packs, according to a CHAMPS news release.
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.
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.