Premier Inc. (NASDAQ: PINC) has launched stockd. ®, an e-Commerce marketplace for healthcare and business supplies, to meet the procurement demands of providers in the non-acute care space. The stockd. marketplace unites national and entrepreneurial sellers, bringing reliable, innovative manufacturers into the alternate-site supply chain on a single online purchasing platform. Building on Premier’s supply …
20 drug, device makers that paid physicians the most last year
ProPublica’s Dollars for Doctors Project released a list of the device or pharma companies that paid U.S. physicians the most in 2018. 1. Genentech — $478 million 2. Zimmer Biomet — $109 million 3. Stryker — $91.9 million 4. Boston Scientific — $82.2 million 5. Allergan — $73 million 6. Arthrex — $70.3 million 7. …
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Summerlin-area land sold to health care company for $19M
Intermountain Healthcare, a nonprofit system with more than 20 hospitals, purchased roughly 7.7 acres at the southeast corner of Rampart Boulevard and Alta Drive for almost $19 million, property records show. It’s unclear what Intermountain plans to do with the Summerlin-area property, which has seen big project ideas come and go over the years. But …
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Capstone Health Alliance announces award winners
Capstone Health Alliance announced the winners of three distinguished awards – the Innovative Partner Awards, the Elevate Awards and the Decade of Sustained Excellence Award. The Innovative Partner Award was presented to: STERISCorporation, DeRoyal Inc.andFisher Scientific, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific. The Elevate Award was presented to: Amy Flatt, Pharm.D., Director of Pharmacy Operations at …
U.S. medical device companies feel pain of Trump’s tariffs
Trump has imposed duties on about $2 billion worth of medical devices and parts made in China. China has slapped retaliatory duties on almost $5 billion worth of U.S. medtech exports, compounding the problems that U.S. companies already face in trying to make sales in the world’s second largest economy. View full article here
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National Accounts Today – Episode 3 – Therese Grossi
Therese Grossi joins the podcast and shares how the role of national accounts has evolved over the last 30 years. She also shares the challenges women face in healthcare national accounts. Anyone in national accounts will appreciate her insights into GPOs, and the future challenges for everyone in the healthcare supply chain.
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National Accounts Today – Episode 2 – John Ghiorso
Amazon – and how medical suppliers can thrive on its platform – is explored in this episode with John Ghiorso, Founder & CEO of Orca Pacific, a full-service Amazon agency (www.OrcaPac.com). John explains how our personal and professional purchasing patterns are colliding, and if this will drive how Amazon moves into healthcare. John will discuss …
National Accounts Today – Episode 1 – Peter Allen
With 22 years on the Supplier side of the table followed by a decade on the GPO side, Pete Allen has a pretty thorough understanding of all facets of healthcare contracting and national accounts. Everyone in National Accounts will benefit from Pete’s unique perspective. In this episode, John Pritchard, publisher of The Journal of Healthcare Contracting, …
October 24, 2019
Trump’s tariffs, Land sold to health care company for $19M, Premier Inc. launches stockd.®, New job postings
October 15, 2019
Emory Healthcare New Medical Facility, UPS Drones, Amazon in Pharma, Walmart’s New Medical Benefits, Michael Gray on ANAE
FDA “bill of materials” creates cybersecurity blind spot for med. devices
The FDA’s cybersecurity bill of materials has major implications – both good and bad – for healthcare provider organizations’ IT and security teams. The draft bill of materials guidance is aimed at having manufacturers disclose other vendors’ software they may be using in addition to their own software/firmware. The intent is to give the IT …
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Emory Healthcare breaks ground on new Executive Park medical facility
The approximately 180,000-square-foot facility will provide orthopedics and spine care, physical therapy, imaging, and ambulatory surgery as well as conducting. Construction is expected to be completed in Q2 2021. The proposed facility will comprise: 1,840,000 square feet of office/medical space 60,000 square feet of commercial space 140-bed hospital 718 multi-family residential units 200-room hotel. Read …
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Walmart pilots suite of new medical benefits for employees
Walmart announced it will pilot a suite of new services as part of its 2020 healthcare plan. The new offerings are designed to make it easier for Walmart employees and their family members to identify and access quality local healthcare. The new initiatives will initially be made available to employees in select markets. Among the …
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Michael Gray’s ANAE Supply Chain Leader webinar
John Pritchard, president of ANAE, recently sat down with supply chain leader Michael Gray for an ANAE webinar on his role at SSM Health and the direction he has taken it’s supply chain in the last 18 months. Gray shares what makes SSM unique, what his top priorities are, supply chain success stories, and specific …
Amazon’s customer-first focus is reshaping the pharma supply chain
Within five years, the online retail giant through acquisitions and other investments, could become active in wholesale, pharmacy benefit management, operating pharmacies through its 450 Whole Foods stores and perhaps even manufacturing. Amazon could well follow the model of GoodRx, which aggregates prices available at local pharmacies and points customers to the lowest price regardless …
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