Supply Chain

Amazon has shelved plans to sell and distribute pharmaceutical products through Amazon Business, sources told CNBC. 

Prodigo Solutions Executive Vice President of Operations Michael DeLuca has 17 years of experience with supply chain systems and e-business integrations in healthcare, manufacturing, software and consulting services.

Valeant Pharmaceuticals will redeem $150 million in aggregate principal senior unsecured notes due in 2020, reducing its debt to $25.4 billion, May 14.

ASC managers should use technology to capture costs, which can inform business plans, according to Jeff Lawrence, vice president of business development at Inventory Optimization Solutions.

Spero Therapeutics appointed Ian Critchley, PhD, head of clinical microbiology.

Supply chain executives working in the ambulatory and outpatient space shared key pieces of advice with Healthcare Purchasing News.

Eliminating time-consuming manual supply chain tasks enables clinicians to spend more time treating patients, according to Inventory Optimization Solutions. 

Medtronic is planning to buy the Israeli company Visionsense for approximately $75 million, Globes reports.

In a recent press release, BroadJump, LLC, a leader in supply chain cost transparency through web-based data and analytics tools, announced that it has launched their medical and surgical expense analytics platform into the non-acute market.

Analysts estimate President Donald Trump's proposed 25 percent tariff on certain Chinese products and manufacturing ingredients could cost the medical device industry up to $1.5 billion each year, the New York Times reports.