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Group purchasing & GPOs

Premier Forms New Collaboration for Supply Chain Improvements

Premier established a new collaborative effort today to improve the healthcare supply chain. The goal of the new effort is to improve supply chain efficiency and performance. more...

June 27, 2008 Related topics: Policies & Procedures, Group purchasing & GPOs, Cost savings, Materials Management

Wound Debridement System Strategy Updated

The deal previously executed between Medline Industries, Incorporated and Misonix, Incorporated for the distribution of the Misonix ultrasound wound debridement system, the SonicOne System, has expired. The two organizations were working to develop an approach for distribution of this device. more...

February 12, 2008 Related topics: Contract Awards, Group purchasing & GPOs, Materials Management

Premier Purchasing and 3M Sign Deal

Premier Purchasing Partners, LP signed an agreement with 3M for suture related materials. The contract is planned to...

State Contract Awarded to Philips Medical Systems

Philips Medical System won a contract with the California Association for Health Services at Home (CAHSAH) to serve...

eCommerce Sales Channel Launched by Merge

Merge Healthcare launched a new channel, an eStore Affiliate program, that allows participants to sell eFilm Workstation products...

VHA Contract Awarded to Hyland Software

VHA, Incorporated inked a deal with Hyland Software, Incorporated. Under the terms of the agreement, Hyland will provide...

Surgical Instrument Tray Reprocessing Deal Completed by Premier

Premier Purchasing Partners completed new agreements for surgical instrument tray sterilization and reprocessing. The deals started at the...

Asteral Nets Contract with University Hospitals of Leicester

Asteral has announced a contract deal (pdf) completed with University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. The deal amounts...

Novation Opts for Emageon Solutions

Novation, which provides contracting services for VHA, Provista, and the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) completed an agreement with...

Splint, Cast Product Contracts Awarded by Premier

Along with the other recent contracts awarded by the group purchasing organization, Premier Purchasing Partners, LP announced the...

Novation Completes Cardiovascular Agreements

Novation has completed 33 different multi-source contracts to provide broad range of products within the company’s portfolio of...

U.S. Military Buys Drugs in Bulk - $3 Billion Worth of Them

Troops require medication of all kinds as a way of managing chronic conditions, handling the wear and ills...

Medicare Drug Pricing Bill Passes Committee

In a stab at the pharmaceutical industry, the Senate Finance Committee approved a bill that will allow negotiations...

Premier Gets Possibly Conflicted Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

On November 21st, Premier, Inc. was one of the three recipients of the 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality...

Private Equity Firm Reviews State of the GPO World

Private equity and research firm HealthpointCapital recently released a report on GPOs based on the assumption that the...

Trade Union Sets Dates for Strikes against NHS Logistics Privatizaton

The Unison trade union is announcing a 24-hour strike later this year to protest the British governement’s recent...

NHS Confirms DHL+Novation Contract

According to the BBC and The Guardian, the UK National Health Service (NHS) is going through with its...

Unions Oppose NHS Deal with Novation, DHL

The Times in the UK and the BBC report that the NHS plans to outsource parts of the...

GPOs Should be Reformed Says MDMA-Funded Report

Hal J. Singer, an expert on antitrust issues and Senior Vice President of strategic economic assessment firm Criterion...

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