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Physicians and surgeons can leave the impression that they're internecine, self-centered and unreasonable when it comes to making decisions about products, services and other supply chain decisions, all based on [...]

Ask a clinician what he or she should have to do to perform their patient care tasks safely and the ideal answer likely may surprise you. Nothing. Or at least [...]

Scanning the results of Healthcare Purchasing News' 2018 Supply Chain Compensation Survey just might bring to mind the painful-for-many bracket-busting NCAA college basketball tournament three months ago. Following a healthy [...]

Unlike Supply Chain's ventures with Surgical Services during the last few decades the department's extension into the Clinical Laboratory has been spotty and sporadic at best. For many Supply Chain [...]

Five years ago, during construction of the Outpatient Pavilion at Advocate Christ Medical Center in the southwestern Chicago suburb of Oak Lawn, executive and operating room leadership at that time [...]

Much of the concentration and focus on supply chain operations in nonacute care settings centers on class-of-trade complaints, ranging from contract pricing to distribution costs to effective but efficient inventory [...]

When Healthcare Purchasing News learned that certain types of bar-code technology could be tampered with, courtesy of their programming, the revelation brought to mind earlier reports of biometrie imaging capabilities [...]

For the third time in as many decades group purchasing organizations face yet another potential threat that arguably imperils their long-term future. The first time occurred during the healthcare reform [...]

Effectively managing a healthcare organization's waste stream doesn't always and totally involve used products. Sure, used products may comprise a significant portion of a facility's waste stream, but a considerable [...]

Contracting for capital equipment in a healthcare organization certainly isn't rocket science for astute and sawy negotiators in Supply Chain, hut against today's backdrop of process reform and reimbursement reduction [...]

To see or not to see. That's not necessarily a question posed by William Shakespeare, but a paraphrased one nestled within the hamlet of sterile processing by an astute sterile [...]

Healthcare organizations may point to a variety of reasons that motivate them to pursue sustainable products and services either as alternatives to current products and services under contract or in [...]

Ask progressive doctors, surgeons and nurses to list their top cost drivers and they'll likely unspool a litany of clinical, fiscal and operational sins familiar to just about anyone on [...]

Business enthusiasts, corporate moguls and frequent viewers of television's 'Shark Tank' recognize the value in spending money to make money--and more of it, if possible. They call it 'investing' in [...]

As healthcare organizations yearn for universal device, equipment and process interoperability, Supply Chain and Surgical Services aim to implement this seemingly lofty goal in several ways. By enacting service and [...]

Compensation for healthcare supply chain professionals appears to be barreling full-steam ahead toward an occupational milestone, a barrier that may be breached by 2020. What might that be, you ask? [...]

Stride into the Sterile Processing wing of LeeSar Regional Service Center, Fort Myers, FL, and your gaze will be lured up to a sign suspended from the ceiling that reads [...]

Ever check the space above the ceiling tiles in the examination and patient rooms at your hospital? Pffft! Why, pray tell, should I do that, you ask? When nursing lacks [...]

During the last decade, Healthcare Purchasing News explored the topic of crisis and disaster planning initiatives from a number of perspectives as they pertained to hospitals, integrated delivery networks, group [...]

Rekindling memories of those GPO days of yore within the minds of veteran %group purchasing and supply chain executives elicits chuckles and smiles, but polished tales of behind-closed-doors-negotiations --the kind [...]

If the healthcare reformation movement accomplished any significant change indelibly seared to the American culture and Zeitgeist, it's this: Patients no longer remain detached spectators in the care they receive. [...]

INSIDE ... * Manufacturer IFUs can stray from validation * Missing links in manufacturer instructions-for-use can lead to process kinks * Reprocessing blueprint to fight infection * Exploring the science [...]

The article presents the recommendations shared by experts in supply chain inventory and storage management for making shelf and storage space work effectively and efficiently. Topics include the need of supply chain professionals to start with the broader context according to Randalyn Harreld. Todd Stewart advises to configure a layout that conforms to staff traffic. Derek Naylor concurs about standardization as a viable and valuable strategy.

Capital/facilities planning typically represents the nucleus of a healthcare organization's operations, patient care and potential success. Unfortunately, all too often Supply Chain participation resembles those far-flung electrons orbiting the nucleus [...]

If beds and patient transport equipment epitomize the workhorses of a hospital or healthcare facility, then surgical tables, lights and booms represent the skeleton of the surgical suite. (For a [...]

If someone were to ask you what 1979 film bore the tagline, 'In space no one can hear you scream,' how would you respond? If you immediately thought of Ridley [...]

When it comes to physician preference in the healthcare organization, the two sides generally and historically follow this trend: Physicians represent church; Supply Chain remains part of state. A study [...]

When it comes to progressing toward and implementing environmentally responsible contracting and purchasing of sustainable products and services, a small percentage of forward-thinking 'green'-minded healthcare organizations have been making some [...]

Because contracting represents such a fundamental--and some even say foundational--element of supply chain management Supply Chain professionals should be seen as the experts in the process. Furthermore, they should live [...]

The healthcare supply chain times, they are a-changin.' Just don't think of it as a revolutionary Bob Dylanesque anthem but as an evolution of expectations. As Supply Chain expands the [...]

Historically, supply chain simply is known for moving stuff--you know, just as life is all about breathing. Yet some periscopic organizations see well beyond this artificial boundary. For them, supply [...]

Back in 2005, Healthcare Purchasing News launched an annual award that recognized and honored healthcare organization CEOs and presidents who Support, Understand, Recognize and Empower Supply Chain Management. They are [...]

Let's face it: For many Supply Chain professionals freight and shipping matters may not be as scintillating a function to manage as, say, product evaluations, value analysis projects or dare [...]

If there is one common and continual complaint about the Supply Chain department from their clinical customers, which, by and large, represent general, surgical and critical care nurses, it's not [...]

After several years of performance and process improvements that help you finally engineer your Sterile Processing & Distribution (SPD) department to operate more effectively and efficiently you might wonder what [...]

Imagine if you could construct or forge a transparent dome around your facility that somehow eliminates exposure to all harmful bacteria or germs that cause infection, but doesn't inhibit your [...]

Sustainability used to evoke executive eye-rolling or delegated pet projects for branding and publicity purposes and not much more. No longer. Healthcare organizations increasingly have grown to recognize the financial, [...]

Look for the linchpin undergirding Riverside Health System's supply chain development and growth to date and you won't find a plethora of costly high-tech devices and equipment or a sophisticated […]

Diving into the vast searching pool online for the 'best' leadership skills and leadership skills tests is a lot like trying to get somewhere fast on Interstate 5 in the […]

Somehow, and for some reason, healthcare organizations represent an attractive target for cyber attackers hell-bent on demonstrating their hacking cleverness and creativity. No organization is too large to fail. Witness [...]

When it came to sterile processing management and operations four years ago, Silver Cross Hospital needed some Red Cross-like rescue. The far southwest suburban Chicago-based Sterile Processing department meandered forward […]

Ten years ago this May, a group of 13 pharmaceutical and medical device companies convened a kick-off meeting in Princeton, NJ, that concentrated on a critical but daunting array of […]

As healthcare data and information exchange migrates to electronic or paperless and cloud-based operations, it may seem like curses and curtains for traditional paper file cabinets. A crisis or disaster [...]

On paper, the strategies behind health information exchange (HIE) formation seem solid enough, but not without the requisite bumping and grinding that accompanies behavioral change management and process improvement. Creating [...]

Through personalized, patient-centered, consumer-directed healthcare, people have been encouraged to take charge and more control over the care they receive. Motivations include more convenient and hopefully easier access to caregivers [...]

When a patient infected with the Ebola virus somehow eluded detection after arriving at a Texas hospital back in October, the blame game began. Fingers pointed to clinicians who didn't [...]

Walking through the exhibit halls of the Radiological Society of North America's annual scientific show may provide the ultimate technological shopping experience for diagnostic imaging and information system clinicians and [...]

Construction and renovation projects can be fun to watch as the framework and skeleton takes shape, and you anticipate the structure's eventual unveiling and readiness for patient service. But planning [...]