Supply Chain

Because ASC team members often wear multiple hats, it can be difficult to find time to ensure supply orders have been placed, according to Jeff Lawrence, Inventory Optimization Solutions' vice president of business development.

Medical device firm managers trust physicians to screen out defects in lieu of recalls, a study conducted by Indianapolis-based Indiana University and Minneapolis-based University of Minnesota business professors found.

Now is the time to transform inventory systems in the Operating Room (OR), and clinicians are eager to collaborate. So where to begin? Follow these helpful steps to turn inventory management from a “necessary evil” to an essential ally.

Linking patient, physician and outcome data can show the economic and clinical impacts of supply chain decisions, according to Debbie Schuhardt, clinical advisory solutions at Vizient.

Eliminating hidden costs within clinical practices can help ASCs save money on supply costs, said Stephanie Martin, RN, Regent Surgical Health's vice president of operations and clinical services.

A federal appeals court overturned a U.S. Tax Court ruling that Fridley, Minn.-based Medtronic owed about $14.3 million in taxes, Mass Device reports.

Molly Ehrlich, Vizient's consulting director of advisory solutions for supply chain operations, shared a story on Vizient's blog about she got to the bottom of why an operating room kept running out of supplies.

Wading deeper into healthcare, Apple is recruiting engineers to develop custom chips for processing data from health, wellness and fitness sensors, The Motley Fool reports.

A study, published in JAMA Surgery, found a significant discrepancy between self-declared conflicts of interest and the actual conflicts of interests for authors who received industry payments.

From 2007 through 2017, 98.1 percent of recalled foot and ankle devices had approved through the FDA 510(k) premarket approval, according to a study published in the Cureus Journal of Medical Science.