Supply Chain

Humana acquired 40 percent minority interest in one of Kindred's businesses in the midst of a healthcare consolidation wave.

The FDA approved Prescient Surgical's CleanCision wound retraction and protection system.

Medline closed its acquisition of Centurion Medical Products enhancing the company's supply offerings.

Inventory sourcing and procurement could look very different in 2018 than in 2017, according to a report from Strategic Sourceror.

Fitch weighed in on CVS Health's proposed acquisition of Aetna, finding the deal "well aligned with U.S. healthcare trends."

GHX launched a cloud-based solution for healthcare providers that connect the supply chain with the EHR.

The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee wants to extend the medical device tax suspension for five more years, the Minnesota StarTribune reports.

Roy Davis will join the board of directors for Clinical Genomics, a cancer diagnostic solutions company.

Almost all of U.S. pharmaceutical sales went through traditional pharmaceutical distributors in 2016, according to an HDA Research Foundation report.

Microbot Medical, a company focused on developing transformational micro-robotic medical technologies, appointed P. Laximarain to the company's board of directors.