Health care spending in the United States is on track to hit 19.4% of GDP in the next decade, giving our country the dubious top spot globally for...

Many consider “standardization” and “innovation” to be opposing forces, when in fact standardization might just be what is needed to effectively innovate around healthcare delivery and payment reform.

Acquisitions and mergers continue unabated in healthcare. Pricewaterhouse Cooper's latest report on mergers and acquisitions in healthcare found the number of...

When the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published the UDI rule in 2013, it listed the ability to “provide for more rapid, more efficient resolution of device recalls” as a primary driver for...

The majority of healthcare payment processes remain paper-intensive, despite electronic payments being the most efficient and cost-effective B2B payment...

The United States spends more on healthcare than any other industrialized nation, and the continued growth in healthcare spending is creating economic pressures not only...

Last month’s column focused on how those working on UDI regulations have broadened their focus beyond the US, as countries and regions...

Logically, the use of data standards would make transactions so much easier to track and trace, as well as facilitate detailed analysis...

Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX) on April 30 announced the recipients of its annual GHXcellence Awards during...

For years, the eyes of the world were on the United States as it became the first country to publish and implement a regulation requiring...

The supply chain has been an increasingly important driving force in the healthcare industry’s transformation. During the past decade, the focus on...

Depending on whom you talk to, the move to value-based healthcare is driven by a high-level societal objective and a fiscal imperative to deliver the highest value to...

It’s hard to believe that after nearly a decade of embracing HIT, the U.S healthcare industry still has its share of technological growing...

Thanks to the enactment of the Affordable Care Act in 2010—as well as other major legislative efforts—the healthcare industry is...

The healthcare industry is going through unprecedented change. The supply chain has been a powerful force, and at times a leader, in driving this...

While technology and automating supply chain processes has played an important role in driving change in the healthcare supply chain, more needs...

Hospitals and healthcare systems around the world are prioritizing the need to reduce clinical variation, as they recognize what quality gurus across many...

Supply & Demand Chain Executive announces its annual listing of Pros to Know in the supply chain...

The continuing pursuit of value-based healthcare is at the crux of many of the trends that will impact the healthcare supply chain in 2019. Look a little deeper and...

A common complaint about standards in healthcare is that there are simply too many, which includes classification systems for...

Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX), a leader in cloud-based healthcare supply chain management solutions, which helps empower...

Procurement is a staple of the supply chain, one of the key processes that keeps any organization stocked with the goods and services it needs to operate. But it’s also one of the last supply chain processes to...

U.S healthcare costs continue to soar. According to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, healthcare costs increased from $27.5bn to $3.2tr between 1960 and 2015. Further, healthcare spending is projected to reach...

Blockchain may still be an emerging technology, but much like the internet, its promise to disrupt industries is the topic of...

As we begin a new year, there are some exciting developments afoot that are laying the foundation for dramatic changes in how healthcare is ...

This past July was the worst month on record for healthcare data breaches, according to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights. Records show that data breaches put 858,411 individuals...

The W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University today announced plans to provide strategic recommendations to the nation’s military to improve...

"Do clinicians care about GS1 standards?" That was the question posed to members of the GS1 Clinical Advisory Committee (CAC)...

During Juhi Jaiswal’s high school years in India, she went on a tour of a local atomic research center, where she was introduced to the wonders and possibilities of technology. From that moment on...

GHX, a leader in cloud-based healthcare supply chain management solutions, has been named as Guys and St Thomas preferred partner for shared catalog...

Healthcare blockchain could solve some of the biggest problems in healthcare, such as compliance, interoperability, and data security issues, according to a recent study by...

A Precious Child, which recently held two fund-raising luncheons in Broomfield and Denver, raised more than $240,000 for the Broomfield-based charity. The money will go to support disadvantaged and displaced children...

GHX President and CEO Bruce Johnson has been on the international health care trading-exchange company's leadership team since...

“Our mission at GHX is to remove costs from healthcare, and the completion of this acquisition helps us further that goal,” GHX CEO and president, Bruce Johnson, said in a statement, adding...

The Healthcare Transformation Group, formed in 2010 by Geisinger Health System, Intermountain Healthcare, Kaiser Permanente, Mayo Clinic, and Mercy, held its 8th annual...

It may only be three letters, but for some manufacturers, UDI is a four-letter word. There are others who see the regulation as an opportunity...

For many medical device manufacturers, mention UDI and they immediately think of added costs for compliance and increased complexity, as more regulators publish ...

In its 2018 Global Blockchain Survey, Deloitte found that 74 percent of respondents see a compelling business case for blockchain technology, and of those respondents, more than half...

When the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed in 2010, many healthcare experts cautioned that access to coverage did not necessarily translate to care, due to a variety of factors, ranging from...

Automating procurement and payables processes is one way for healthcare organizations to optimize business performance. By leveraging technology, organizations can...

Data is everything in healthcare. It is the fundamental requirement for developing an in-depth picture of the industry, and opening the door to...

As healthcare organizations develop more sophisticated big data analytics capabilities, they are beginning to move from basic descriptive analytics towards...

As I was sitting down to write this month’s Standard Practices column, I received a heartbreaking email letting me know that a good friend and admired professional...

UCSF Health is at the forefront of healthcare innovation but, behind the scenes, the group’s Medical Center supply chain team are keeping the cogs turning so it can focus on...

It’s August, which means it’s time for AHRMM18, the annual conference and exhibition of the Association for Health Care Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM)...

Piedmont Healthcare’s award-winning Supply Chain team may operate under an established operational “ideal” that reads well on paper...

“GHX [is] key in our vendor, data and transaction management,” Chieppa told Healthcare Purchasing News. “GHX is integral to our data management strategy. The key tool for this is Nuvia...

For many, it is the best of times, with medical advances leading to more effective therapies that treat patients based on their own genetic codes, new drugs that can cure diseases like...

Mergers and acquisitions have been sweeping the healthcare industry for the past several years. PwC reported more than 200 M&A deals in...

The Strategic Marketplace Initiative (SMI), a non-profit, member-driven organization of healthcare supply chain thought-leaders recently announced the appointment of...

Last year, the health care industry logged a record number of mergers and acquisitions. In its annual report, Kaufman Hall recorded 115 hospital and health system M&A transactions in 2017, a 13 percent...

Last month, I attended the Department of Veterans Affairs’ national healthcare summit on medical device registries. The meeting was designed to bring together...

A decade ago, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement coined the term the Triple Aim and outlined its...

TransForm Shared Service Organization, based in Chatham, Ont., was named the Canadian Healthcare Provider of the Year, for the third consecutive year...

Those in charge of UDI compliance for global medical device manufacturers are busy these days, not just because more countries and regions have or plan to publish...

I had the pleasure to interview Bruce Johnson. Bruce is the CEO of Global Healthcare Exchange, a leader in...

Last week, Dave Reed was recognized as a leader in healthcare operations by the Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX). The Supply Chain Leadership award recognizes...

Automation holds incredible power to streamline our work and personal lives and is a significant contributor to the progress being...

One of the most dynamic issues facing today’s healthcare supply chain is the price accuracy of critical supplies that...

Regulatory and market demands for more real-world evidence (RWE) on product performance and changing reimbursement structures are necessitating changes in...

In an industry that uses technology advanced enough to replace a person’s hip, it’s a shock to realize that a good ...

Regulatory and market demands for more real world evidence (RWE) on product performance and changing reimbursement structures are necessitating changes in how...

The health care industry has spent the better part of the last decade focused on automating processes. Not surprisingly, the industry...