Supply Chain

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.

Mortsel, Belgium-based Agfa Healthcare has announced the first sales of its IMPAX Agility picture archiving and communication system in the United States.

Alpharetta, Ga.-based MedAssets has renewed two of its major partnerships with Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanante and Richmond University Medical Center in Staten Island, N.Y.

Brentwood, Tenn.-based HealthTrust is now a supporting member of the Healthier Hospitals Initiative, a collaboration of healthcare organizations pushing the industry to become more environmentally sustainable, according to a HealthTrust news release.

The global ophthalmology drugs and devices market is expected to reach $52.6 billion by 2017, according to a report released by MarketsandMarkets.

The sex ratio in post-approval studies mandated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration varies greatly in certain clinical areas, even reaching an imbalance of nine females to every one male, according to a study published in the Journal of…