Spend Matters Site Round-Up and Other News

by Brianna Tonner May 11, 2012 General News and Commentary

Have a wonderful weekend everyone! Be sure to show your mother some love!  Speaking of… Happy Mother’s day, Mom! I love you! A rather large step in the fight against HIV? Advocates: HIV Prevention Pill Could Save Lives CHICAGO (AP) — A pill to prevent HIV infection is already being given to some healthy people, [...]

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Happy Mother’s Day!

by Tom May 11, 2012 General News and Commentary

The Kentucky Derby serves a purpose.  Each year it reminds me that Mother’s Day is around the corner. For those of you who could use the hint: Derby Day is always the first Saturday in May. Mother’s Day is always the second Sunday in May. Mother’s Day is more important. In fact, I just decided [...]

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Marquette’s SCM Center to Survey Industry’s Perception of SCM Value

by Tom May 10, 2012 General News and Commentary

When I first read that Marquette’s Center of Supply Chain Management (SCM) is getting set to conduct a national poll of Healthcare CEOs, CFOs, COOs and CSCOs on their perceptions of the value of healthcare SCM, I thought it sounded more than a little bit academic. But I’m going to reserve judgement. Ironically, it’s the [...]

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GHX: Driving Healthcare to The Highest Common Denominator

by Tom May 10, 2012 General News and Commentary

Most of us were taught about the lowest or least common denominator. The following remarks by Steve Jobs were made in the context of a discussion about achieving “the highest common denominator.” Steve Jobs –on building a tight team of very talented people: “…I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain [...]

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Carlin: “We Exist Because the Planet Needed Plastic”

by Tom May 9, 2012 General News and Commentary

Practice Greenhealth is the nation’s leading networking organization for institutions in the healthcare community that have made a commitment to sustainable, eco-friendly practices. Members include hospitals, healthcare systems, GPOs, supplier businesses and other stakeholders engaged in the “greening of healthcare” to improve the health of patients, staff and the environment. Clearly, George Carlin’s (RIP) ideas [...]

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2012 GHX Summit Buzz: The Implantables Supply Chain

by Tom May 9, 2012 General News and Commentary

The 2012 version of GHX’s Supply Chain Summit comes to a close today. The party keeps getting bigger and better each year, an excellent sign and clear indicator of the company’s increasing relevance to the industry. Keep in mind; it’s GHX, so we’re genuinely talking about the whole of the industry –the providers, suppliers, distributors [...]

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Providers Getting their Mojo –Great Timing!

by Tom May 8, 2012 doctors

According to a new study in Health Affairs (not yet available to the public), hospitals are figuring out how to increase their leverage and secure higher prices from insurers. Believe it or not, the American Hospital Association (AHA) takes great issue with these findings. “We recognize no underlying validity to the study,” said Melinda Hatton, [...]

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Google Guilty of Java Infringement in Android OS

by Tom May 8, 2012 General News and Commentary

If you happen to be an Oracle stockholder, you may have just suffered the most hollow of all possible victories. Yesterday, a 12-person jury found Google guilty of infringing on Java –that little ‘ol programming language picked up by Oracle in its acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Specifically, it found 9 lines copied (9 out of [...]

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Stop Wasting Time: Cloud based EHR Solutions Abound

by Tom May 7, 2012 doctors

The “80/20 rule” is a rule of thumb in business that says a relatively small group (20%) is generally associated with producing the vast majority (80%) of transactions that are of interest. But regardless of how time tested that rule genuinely is; if we’re not careful, it can lead us to fundamentally flawed decisions. For [...]

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Highmark’s New SCM Entity –ProtoCo to be Full Service GPO

by Tom May 7, 2012 General News and Commentary

Offering further evidence of the seriousness of its mission to build an integrated healthcare delivery system, Highmark, Pennsylvania’s largest health insurance company, launched a new supply chain management company, called ProtoCo. The company will operate under the direction of Bill O’Connor, who will report to John Paul, Highmark’s leader of provider services. There’s a nice [...]

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