Supply Chain

Tandem Diabetes Care has recalled a mobile app that pairs with its t:slim X2 insulin pump due to software issues, according to an FDA safety alert issued May 8. 

The FDA is instructing healthcare facilities to avoid using two heart devices from Getinge amid concerns that the company has not adequately resolved issues that spurred a string of recalls over the last year.

Medical supplies cost hospitals $146.9 billion in 2023 — an uptick from about $140 billion expenses a year prior, the American Hospital Association said in a May update of its Costs of Caring report. 

After a surge in sales and supply chain disruptions, demand is calming for semitruck manufacturers, Bloomberg reported May 7. 

As demand heightens for AI-driven technologies, supply chain leaders across multiple industries should carefully create their future-looking plans, according to a May 7 Fortune article written by Marc Barnhill, CEO of Smith. 

A growing number of health systems are moving to end the use of desflurane — a common anesthesia gas that lingers in the atmosphere for more than a decade. 

In a letter to CMS, Premier and 10 other organizations asked the agency to remove catheter expenditures from accountable care organization calculations because of unusual "Medicare spending outside their control."

Medline will install more than 2,400 solar panels at its distribution center in Perryville, Md., for $2.37 million, the company said May 2. 

Here are 10 health systems and hospitals that posted job listings seeking supply chain expertise in the last week. 

Medline is planning to scoop up Ecolab, a global surgical solutions and medical product company.