Healthcare Matters

Hi, All – Have a wonderful weekend! 

Not such great news for the medical device industry…

Medical device industry feeling ill over SCOTUS healthcare ruling

NEW YORK – Despite numerous organizations nationwide applauding the recent Supreme Court ruling to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), a new Kalorama report finds that the medical device industry may be feeling significantly more feverish regarding the recent healthcare ruling…

New drug for HIV treatment

HIV Treatment Adds Safe Once-a-Day Pill

Doctors told Thomas DeLorenzo he would have lived only two more days had he not come into the emergency room when he did in January 2001. He was dying of AIDS, they said, and his future was bleak because he had waited so long to get treated.

Protect yourself!

Mosquitoes test positive for West Nile Virus across country, human cases confirmed: How to stay safe

(CBS News) Reports of mosquitoes with West Nile virus are popping up all over the country, with several people already confirmed to be infected by the potentially dangerous disease. West Nile virus is spread from the bite of an infected mosquito, which gets the disease when they feed off infected birds. The mosquitoes then transmit the disease to other animals or humans…

Spend Matters

PRO: Procurement Technology, Consulting Pricing Trends and Negotiation Strategies (Part 1)

Today on Spend Matters PRO, we launch the first in a series around procurement technology, consulting pricing trends, and negotiation strategies. Summary: This 4-part series will provide a look at software provider and management consulting pricing trends and negotiation strategies within the procurement and operations area. It provides insight to buying organizations that may be helpful in negotiating with vendors such as Ariba, SAP, Oracle, Emptoris, Zycus and others, as well as recommendations for how best to engage with consultancies for price and value in the current environment…

Spend Matters UK/Europe

John Collington, Government Chief Procurement Officer is going. We believe.

We got a bit of flack for mentioning a rumour the other day, without explaining it, so here we go. We’re pretty confident of this now! I guess the Cabinet Office couldn’t announce John Collington’s imminent departure from his post as UK Government CPO until after his Minister Francis Maude’s backside kicking session with top suppliers yesterday. It might have distracted from the key message. But it is getting a bit ridiculous that it hasn’t been announced, when it seems like everyone in public procurement, and much of the supply market knows!