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The topic of supply assurance took center stage during and immediately after the height of the pandemic. Prior to 2020, supply chain challenges were rarely in the consumer spotlight. When personal protective equipment became scarce, supply chain conversations dominated the world. The healthcare industry was at the center of the supply chain storm. Unfortunately, even …

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John Thresher has been named chief development and integration officer for Medical City Healthcare, starting Aug. 21. Thresher replaces Jamie Youssef, who was promoted to senior VP of network development at HCA Healthcare, the parent company of Medical City Healthcare. Thresher brings decades of executive business development, strategy, and operations leadership. He has worked in high-level executive …

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Intermountain Health announced Mitch Cloward as the new Desert Region president overseeing all operations for the healthcare system’s Southern Nevada and Southwest Utah markets. Cloward brings 20 years of Intermountain leadership experience to this position. Most recently, Cloward served as Intermountain Health’s Market President – Desert South Utah and President of St. George Regional Hospital. …

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In the wake of the devastation caused by the wildfires in Hawaii, Henry Schein, Inc. is raising money for recovery and rebuilding efforts, donating much-needed health care supplies, and supporting its customers who may be impacted by the ongoing crisis. The Company and the Henry Schein Cares Foundation are seeding a 2023 Disaster Relief Fund with a $25,000 donation and will match employee contributions …

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By Matt O’Rourke, ZS Principal, Boston, and Abhishek Rathi, ZS Associate Principal, New York Group purchasing organizations (GPO) have been part of medtech and the healthcare value chain in the U.S. for more than a century. Over the past few decades, their influence on provider economics has expanded substantially. The value GPOs deliver to providers and patients …

Where your medtech GPO contracting strategy goes, your value will followRead More

Bellwether League Foundation’s Hall of Fame for Healthcare Supply Chain Leadership selected six professionals, hailed as innovators, leaders, trailblazers and visionaries for their industry contributions and performance, as honorees of the Bellwether Class of 2023. They join 137 earlier honorees inducted since inception of the organization. Bellwether League Foundation selected the following professionals for the …

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ECRI, the nation’s largest independent patient safety organization, announces the winners of its 2023 Healthcare Supply Chain Excellence Award. ECRI’s annual award recognizes U.S. healthcare organizations for achieving excellence in overall spend management and adopting best practice solutions into their supply chain processes. “We’re proud to award twelve healthcare systems with our prestigious award this …

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Global Healthcare Exchange released the “Consignment Implant Order Automation Guide,” the first industry guidelines designed to help solve the complex challenge of automating implant orders which comprise 40-60% of total supply chain spend.  The guidelines are the result of deep industry collaboration which began at GHX Summit 2022 where the company established a working group of approximately …

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Recently, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued the 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule that includes proposed changes to the Medicare Shared Savings Program. The agency proposed a calendar year 2024 conversion factor of $32.75, a 3.4% decrease from the previous year. Healthcare organizations have weighed in with their concerns regarding the potential ruling. …

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By John Pritchard In a recent blog post, Byron Jobe, president and chief executive officer of Vizient, lays out a problem that will challenge all U.S. Healthcare Supply Chain stakeholders for the rest of our careers — the current and seemingly never-ending shortage of nurses. Not only does he lay out the problem clearly, he …

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CommonSpirit Health, one of the largest faith-based, non-profit health systems in the U.S., is now directly managing 20 hospitals and more than 240 care sites in Colorado, Kansas, and Utah. These facilities had previously been managed by Centura Health.   The hospitals that are now fully managed and operated by CommonSpirit Health are:  Colorado  Longmont United …

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Vizient, Inc. announced it is granting public access to the patent pending Vizient Vulnerability Index™. The access comes at no cost and provides a unique level of visibility for healthcare organizations to assess social determinants of health that impact health equity in the communities they serve. It is now available to anyone. Access the Vizient Vulnerability Index. …

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