Group Purchasing Organizations news and information

While much attention was given to the decision to delay the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's employer mandate by one year, another ACA deadline quietly arrives this week.
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The Premier healthcare alliance, one of the nation's largest group purchasing organizations, is considering an initial public offering, a move attacked by rival MedAssets.
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Healthcare industry groups are pressing regulators to issue the delayed final rule requiring manufacturers to mark medical devices with unique identifiers to improve patient safety and help healthcare providers during product recalls.
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Dr. Nogah Haramati, a radiologist based in New York, recently cancelled a meeting with a vendor—one of the many equipment manufacturers and software developers who routinely offer free dinners and lectures to ply their wares.
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Leigh Anderson has been named COO of informatics and technology services at Premier healthcare alliance in Charlotte, N.C. In his newly created role, he will oversee Premier's quality and safety improvement, population health management, and cost reduction applications.
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Modern Healthcare is collecting executive opinions on healthcare purchasing. This survey is available to healthcare executives and seeks their opinions on purchasing issues that affect their business decisions and relationships with group purchasing organizations. Submissions are kept confidential...
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CMS officials are reassuring physicians that the burdens of reporting their connections to drug and devicemakers under the Physician Payment Sunshine Act would fall almost entirely on industry.
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A burst of products and services are encouraging supply chain leaders to look to a centralized computer cloud.
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Tim Weaver, an 18-year-old college student who lives in Naperville, Ill., is one of the estimated 30,000 people in the U.S. who rely on intravenous nutrition products to keep them alive.
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Modern Healthcare's second annual Survey of Executive Opinions on Supply Chain Issues is open for participation. This survey is available to healthcare executives seeking their opinions on supply chain issues that affect their business decisions and relationships with group purchasing...
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