The unpredictable and shrinking reimbursement landscape requires these organizations to reassess expenses and processes—especially within the supply chain—across all facilities and departments ...

In the realm of the hospital supply chain, cost dictates all. And cost is more relevant than ever in healthcare right now, said John Cunningham, chief solutions officer at Procured Health ...

Such disruptions to hospital inventory have long been hard to predict and difficult for hospitals to navigate. At the same time, keeping too much of a given item on hand is wasteful. In 2019 ...

The healthcare supply chain remains under immense pressure, facing rising costs, external threats and operational challenges. For example, non-labor expenses for hospitals climbed by 10% in 2024 ...

The other thing we did is we changed how we paid for hospital care. That, plus a lot of other financial incentives, made it increasingly not a great business to be in the hospital business.

When CNN spoke to a dozen VA hospital employees across the country, however, some said doctors were voluntarily leaving because of the strain on the workforce and the supply chain.

Geoff Gates, Cleveland Clinic's senior director of supply chain management: In some of our tools, instead of having someone click lots of buttons and type data into 20 or more fields, for example ...