Supply Chain
– In a pairing that matches the state’s largest healthcare provider and largest insurer, Providence Health & Services and Premera Blue Cross announced last month an alliance to launch multiple patient-centered medical homes in Providence clinics throughout Washington state.
When Jennifer Searfoss realized she had a urinary tract infection, she made a decision more and more Americans are making: She went to a retail health clinic for care.
A study that used game theory to explore the impact of group purchasing organizations on healthcare supply chains has found that providers using GPOs experience lower total purchasing costs.
MedAssets, based in Atlanta, has announced that the Kettering Health Network, a Dayton, Ohio-based health network comprised of seven hospitals and more than 60 healthcare facilities, has selected key components of the company's Spend and Clinical Resource Management solutions to help optimize overall financial performance.
HASCO Medical, a Mobile, Ala.-based managed healthcare provider serving patients in Alabama, Florida and Mississippi, has purchased Mobility Freedom and Wheelchair Vans of America, both based in Florida.
Economic growth is expected to continue in the United States throughout the remainder of 2011, say the nation's purchasing and supply executives in their spring 2011 Semiannual Economic Forecast.
Overall U.S. healthcare prices increased marginally from March 2011 to April 2011, rising 0.1 percent, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Management Health Solutions, a Fairfield, Conn.-based provider of supply chain optimization solutions for hospitals and healthcare systems, has unveiled 2-Bin Mobile Supply Chain, a new software solution designed as an enhancement to the company's CartCount module.
Business intelligence may sound “techie,” but it really isn’t.
Highmark Inc. recently announced it would launch a two-year, patient-centered medical home pilot project.