The COVID-19 pandemic has yielded many lessons, including the importance of integrating data from multiple sources, both medical and non-medical. Early in the crisis, governments, public health agencies, and health care systems sought to bring...
COVID-19 has elevated the importance of the healthcare supply chain to help providers deliver outstanding care at lower costs. It’s now becoming one of the most visible functions across...
Even before COVID-19 hit the United States, resulting in hospitals scrambling for personal protective equipment (PPE), supply chains were already dealing with recalls of more than nine million surgical gowns and 2.5 million...
With value-based payment, the healthcare industry is taking a more holistic approach to how it cares for populations – an approach that may prove to be most effective for dealing with...
Providers and suppliers are looking to preserve the healthcare supply chain after the COVID-19 pandemic by prioritizing the purchase of products made in the US and...
Ensuring greater resiliency in the supply chain and improving demand forecasting have emerged as top priorities for the U.S. healthcare industry as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. These insights are based on...
Ensuring greater resiliency in the supply chain and improving demand forecasting have emerged as top priorities for the U.S. healthcare industry as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. These insights are based on...
Much has been written about the challenges associated with a paucity of diagnostic testing for the presence of COVID-19. Without adequate testing, it is difficult to identify and isolate those with the disease in order to...
The coronavirus crisis shook almost every industry globally, but the healthcare system was forced to adjust in real time.
As the coronavirus raced around the world, hospital systems found themselves facing...
For the last three months, all eyes have been focused on the healthcare supply chain as the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic ravished its way through hospitals’ supplies. With supply and demand issues hitting nearly every single industry, communities...
Advancements in technology have profoundly affected the ways in which we work and live, delivering new levels of automation, efficiency and economies of scale. The challenge for many leaders is finding the most effective ways to...
Today every chief executive is focused on two 2020 imperatives: Resilience and results. While executives have little control over demand resilience, they have direct control over...
When it becomes more difficult for a company to scale its data infrastructure, building a team responsible for that goal can help. Director of Data Operations and Engineering Mike Doerner said that’s precisely what happened...
In late March, as COVID-19 had taken hold of New York City and the surrounding area, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called on hospitals across the state to...
For the better part of two decades this century, forward-thinking executives from providers, suppliers and supply data standards service companies have preached the gospel of...
Despite the changes and uncertainty rippling across the entire venture-backed startup ecosystem, the digital health sector saw its best first quarter since analysts began tracking...
In December 2019, the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response told a House committee that “supply chain issues were among the most significant challenges to...
We’ve been hearing about shortages on personal protective equipment or PPE and ventilators. Pharmacists are now sounding the alarm on a possible shortage of...
Most U.S. healthcare organizations have disaster preparedness plans in place to address infectious disease outbreaks, man-made or natural disasters, bioterrorism or other events that result in a surge in...
When I sat down in early March to write the April edition of Standard Practices on the role of standards to support supply continuity, I knew we were facing serious shortages, but admittedly, I did not yet fully appreciate the...
The Association for Health Care Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM) is collaborating with GHX using the same tools, expertise and processes leveraged by...
Procurement professionals, like any other, are affected by the current coronavirus pandemic. They will face many challenges in their supply chains. For those who operate within industries where physical...
The Global Healthcare Exchange offers medical product manufacturers assistance in getting critically needed supplies to market quickly. Healthcare providers responding to the COVID-19 crisis need...
As the nation’s supplies of N95 respirator masks, gloves, gowns and other personal protective equipment run critically low, health care providers, suppliers and business leaders in Colorado...
Although U.S provider organizations still show a willingness to take on risk by adopting alternative payment models, progress has been slow, and it may not pick up speed as quickly as many industry observers suggest. A recent HFMA study found that...
Since the early stages of the coronavirus outbreak, healthcare industry experts have projected that shortages of supplies such as personal protective equipment and ventilators could endanger...
In 1970, healthcare spending represented 6.9% of U.S. GDP. Last year, findings from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services showed healthcare spending in the U.S. was expected to reach...
There’s no shortage of enthusiasm — or predictions — about the potential use of artificial intelligence (AI). Grand View Research estimates the global AI market will grow at a compound annual rate of...
One of the more damaging myths is that to succeed women need to adopt a male persona. Western society often assigns strength, courage, independence, leadership, and assertiveness as...
Global Healthcare Exchange Inc. has acquired Chicago-based Lumere Inc., a provider of data and analytics solutions that enable health-care organizations to build clinically integrated...
Healthcare IT leaders have spent the last decade primarily focused on critical investments related to clinical quality improvements—including implementing electronic health records (EHRs), adopting ICD-10 and...
The move to a healthcare system that rewards the value delivered to patients vs. the volume of services performed is no easy task. Healthcare providers, including hospitals and physicians, face decreasing reimbursements as both...
TransForm Shared Service Organization (TransForm SSO) provides an innovative, end-to-end supply chain service driven through one vital goal: offering healthcare employees the support...
As healthcare continues to evolve, so too, do the talent requirements for supply chain organizations. The AHRMM Cost, Quality, Outcomes (CQO) Movement arose out of a recognition that...
Two powerful forces are transforming the health-care supply chain: Value-based reimbursement and consumerism. Both are responsible for a sizable shift in where care is delivered...
Executives and professionals in healthcare supply chain gaze somewhat longingly at other industries for glimpses at what might emerge within their realm of,,,
Denver is home to some of the most exciting companies in the U.S., and it has the executives to match: They are driven, innovative and constantly setting new...
The healthcare supply chain continues to be at a pivotal juncture, taking increased advantage of innovative technology to deliver affordable value-based care by...
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...
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...
Hospitals and healthcare systems around the world are prioritizing the need to reduce clinical variation, as they recognize what quality gurus across many...
