Medical Devices
The delivery of coronary artery stents is a procedure that affects over 1 million patients each year in the United States. With an aging population, the declining cost of stents and reimbursement tracking with the consumer price index (2-4 percent margins), the market for stenting continues to grow.
More than 80 percent of hospitals in the U.S. expect to be engaging in sustainability purchasing within two years, according to a recent survey. For the hospitals that expect to jump on the green bandwagon, there's a lot to learn.
The Cleveland Clinic and University of Texas Health are using the nation's first mobile stroke units to treat stroke patients sooner, and both show promise in preserving patients' quality of life and saving a great deal of money.
Among a variety of high risk, high reward investments for health systems, robotic surgery is emerging as a technology with lots of promise as well as conflicting evidence.
Every interventional cardiac cath procedure requires the use of an associated monitoring system. Negotiation of this technology requires a deep understanding of how these systems can be highly configurable, how components can be priced and discounted differently.
The role of the modern hospital CFO has changed considerably in recent years. Not only do they perform a vital strategic role overseeing enterprise planning and performance, by necessity they have become more involved in the clinical aspects of healthcare.
Uncertainty about reimbursement continues to play a role in a healthcare facility's decision to invest in a digital mammography system, which makes obtaining the best price possible even more important.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will sponsor the advanced development of a next-generation portable ventilator to help fill the need for portable, low-cost, user-friendly and flexible ventilators in a pandemic or other public health emergency.
The incidence for abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA), a bulging, weakened area of the aorta, has led the U.S. market for AAA repair to increase rapidly. It is currently valued at $600 million annually and is forecasted to grow to $1.6 billion worldwide by 2015.
One of the most daunting challenges any newly appointed healthcare supply chain leader will face is establishing direction. The best practices listed below, gathered from my 16 years of experience in supply chain, will get you moving in the right direction.