Supply Chain
Americans are paying higher prices for cancer drugs because more patients are being treated by oncologists whose practices have been bought by hospitals, which may charge double or more for the same treatments, according to a new report.
The opportunity for cost reduction through smart resource and waste management is high. To maximize this opportunity, hospitals and health systems should look for medical waste processing companies that emphasize green initiatives.
Most hospital administrators choose to implement vendor management systems to keep track of who is in the facility, what they are doing in the facility and to make sure the vendors have the training the organization wants them to have, but today's vendor management technologies allow for expanded uses.
Hospital pharmacies can be huge sources of spending and also good sources of meaningful data. Healthcare Finance News talked to a data-driving hospital pharmacy director to learn how evolving analytics tools can help reshape clinical and financial approaches for the better.
You can’t optimize the healthcare supply chain in 2014 without technology.
Amazon.com revolutionized the online buying experience for millions while giving sellers an expanded market that brick and mortar merchants still envy.
Now a new online direct contracting service is attempting a similar coup in the healthcare market.
Empowered consumers, rapid innovation and increasing competition are among PwC's top health industry issues for 2014.
Hospital administrators are finding that inexpensive and unobtrusive radio frequency identification tags are saving thousands of dollars while increasing quality of care and patient satisfaction.
The U.S. market for clot management devices is on the rise and is expected to grow at an annual rate of 4.1 percent through 2017, said a new report from Millennium Research Group.
The market for point-of-care (POC) testing products -- such as pregnancy tests and glucose monitoring devices -- is currently growing at a rate of 6 percent per year, said a new report from healthcare market research publisher Kalorama Information.