Supply Chain

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.

Standardizing products and how they can increase profits for practices, according to Scott McDade, McKesson Medical-Surgical's general manager of health systems.

EyePoint Pharmaceuticals appointed John Weet, PhD, as its new senior vice president of regulatory affairs and quality.

  Using predictive ordering techniques can make your practice more efficient, according to Scott McDade, general manager of health systems for McKesson Medical-Surgical.

Noted investor Carl Icahn abandoned his fight to block Cigna's acquisition of Express Scripts after two advisory firms publicly supported the deal, Bloomberg reports.