Supply Chain

The shift to value-based care poses risks and new opportunities for ASCs in the area of inventory management, according to Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems' Ruben Taborda, senior director of supply chain customer solutions.

The Surgery Center of Fairbanks in Alaska is the recipient of the second-quarter best practice award from supply chain s company Inventory Optimization Solutions.

Cheryl Poplaski, senior director of supply chain operations for healthcare performance improvement company Vizient outlined what ASCs can do to prepare for supply chain disasters.

ORHub's Colton Melby is stepping down as chairman and CEO of the healthcare analytics company.

Hospital-based supply chain strategies often work for ASCs too, said Molly Ehrlich, a consulting director with healthcare improvement company Vizient.

Stephanie Martin, vice president of operations and clinical services for ASC management company Regent Surgical Health, shared this supply chain tip on Regent's blog:

ASCs can use technology to improve supply chain operations, according to Garry Cooper, PhD, CEO and co-founder of asset management company Rheaply.

Medline's co-founder and longtime CEO James Mills died at 82, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Physician preference items can represent more than 50 percent of a surgery center's spend, according to Ann Castro, vice president of non-acute sales for healthcare data insight company BroadJump.

  OptioSurgical has received $3.3 million to expand its services into specialties including spine and cardiology.