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Cardinal Health Launches Modules for Hospital Inventory Management

August 27, 2015

Cardinal Health Inventory Management Solutions has launched a series of automated, cloud-based workflow modules for biological implants, sutures, and trauma and spine implants.

Jump Technologies Unveils App for Receiving and Tracking Package

August 19, 2015

Jump Technologies Inc.

Jump Technologies Inc., a vendor of cloud-based mobile software for inventory management in hospitals, has released InnerTrack.

Failure to Keep Eye on Your Providers Brings Great Risk of Data Breach

July 6, 2015

CFO

Large corporations and government agencies are increasingly suffering data breaches stemming from lax security on the part of their service providers.

Late to the Party: Healthcare Giants Embrace RFID, With Immediate Results

June 19, 2015

SupplyChainBrain

BJC HealthCare joins with Cardinal Health and Cook Medical in a three-way pilot to apply RFID tags to items at the supplier stage. Will their success goad a technologically backward industry to follow suit, and eliminate billions of dollars of waste from the supply chain?

Market for Energy Management Systems in Healthcare Industry to Top $2Bn by 2024, Report Says

April 23, 2015

Navigant Research

Rising healthcare costs, competitive industry pressures, and concerns over stable power supplies in the face of recent severe natural disasters have generated a new and concentrated focus on the ways in which healthcare facilities procure, use and manage energy, according to a report from Navigant Research. These forces are driving governments and organizations to adopt new technologies to monitor and control energy use in in healthcare facilities. Global healthcare facility energy management system revenue is expected to grow from $948.8m annually in 2015 to $2.2bn in 2024.

TNT Opens Healthcare Transport Hub in Netherlands

April 1, 2015

TNT

TNT has inaugurated an international transport hub in Heerlen, the Netherlands, dedicated to the shipping of medical devices to European hospitals and clinics.

VMI Transforms the Healthcare System in Zimbabwe

March 19, 2015

SupplyChainBrain

Dr. Abdourahmane Diallo, director of health systems strengthening with John Snow Inc., and Walter Proper, JSI's director of public health task order, relate the story of how a vendor-managed inventory (VMI) system improved Zimbabwean citizens' access to critical healthcare. A finalist in the SupplyChainBrain/CSCMP Supply Chain Innovation Award for 2014.

Your Next Perfect Employee or Job Is Waiting

March 11, 2015

SupplyChainBrain

SupplyChainBrain and JobsInLogistics have joined forces for the specialized purpose of:

Is The Pharma Supply Chain Ready for Change?

March 4, 2015

SupplyChainBrain

Analyst Insight: The pressures faced by the pharmaceutical industry are well known. These include the increasing cost of healthcare, the aging of the population in the developed world, market entry hurdles in many emerging markets, excess manufacturing capacity, reimbursement decisions based on comparative effectiveness research, and the continued adoption of generics and bio-similars. Another well-known about the industry: change occurs at a glacial pace. What role does the supply chain have in helping the industry transition to a solution-oriented approach to healthcare? – Barry Blake, Vice President, Research, SCM World