Category: Supply Chain

At the urging of White House officials, manufacturers have confirmed they will make an additional 230,000 doses of respiratory syncytial virus immunizations available for infants in January, alleviating a nationwide shortage. 

Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine has recycled more than 12,000 pounds of IV bags waste that would otherwise be sent to landfills.

On Gartner’s 15th annual ranking of the nation’s best health system supply chains, Cleveland Clinic secured the No. 1 spot for the third consecutive year. 

Medline, the Northfield, Ill.-based major medical supplier, made several headlines this year for key developments ranging from newly inked deals to challenges due to fire damage at a manufacturing plant. 

Medical device maker Getinge is recalling 41 of its Cardiohelp Emergency Drive life support machines due to the risk of the device’s emergency drive becoming stuck when clinicians attempt to activate the function. The FDA has classified it as a Class 1…

Medtronic has canceled a $738 million deal to acquire the wearable insulin pump maker EOFlow Co., according to a Dec. 6 Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

In 2017, Las Vegas hospitals treated victims from a mass shooting that killed 60 people and injured more than 400. In the aftermath, emergency response crews needed more of one crucial item: a Sharpie. 

Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth has picked Medline for both its physician office and post-acute care vendor agreements.

The healthcare supply chain industry has evolved over the last 15 years in five significant ways, Eric O’Daffer, a Gartner research vice president, wrote in a Dec. 4 piece in Supply Chain Management Review.