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Hospital Materials Management

A monthly newsletter for the hospital supply industry, providing market news and detailed reports on trends in hospital and medical group purchasing across the country. Coverage includes hospital supply price surveys, hospital purchasing news, price indexes, special reports on materials trends, and news about industry vendors, new products, and trends.

SurgiLance. (Supplier News).(U.S. hospitals purchased $3 million worth...
March 01, 2003

A study presented at the Society of Thoracic Surgeons annual meeting i...
March 01, 2003

US Oncology selected BrainLAB Inc., Westchester, Ill., to provide its ...
March 01, 2003

Northfield Laboratories Inc. (Supplier News).(conducting trials for it...
March 01, 2003

St. Jude Medical. (Supplier News).(received CE Mark approval of its ne...
March 01, 2003

Advertisers and marketers often say their job is mainly one of educati...
March 01, 2003

Healthcare Strategic Resource Solutions. (Supplier News).(Brief Articl...
March 01, 2003

Owens & Minor. (Supplier News).(has added a new consulting division, c...
March 01, 2003

The Stevens Co., Brampton, Ont., agreed to conduct transactions throug...
March 01, 2003

Manufacturers of portable defibrillators will go to court to determine...
March 01, 2003

Parkland Health & Hospital System selected Perot Systems, Plano, Texas...
March 01, 2003

Abbott Laboratories. (Supplier News).(released its Dexamet dexamethaso...
March 01, 2003

Florida Hospital has installed software from Cypress Corp. (Supplier N...
March 01, 2003

D.C. hospital awards contract for blood volume measuring device to Dax...
March 01, 2003

Catholic IDN agrees to let Consorta negotiate customized purchasing de...
March 01, 2003

Code of Conduct elicits mixed reviews from purchasing, supplier commun...
March 01, 2003

Consorta members have new system allowing online sign-up for contracts...
March 01, 2003

AmeriNet gives nod to Medline to provide modular closed suction cathet...
March 01, 2003

Inventory database available to growing number of Defense agencies in ...
March 01, 2003

VHA selects Quantros for software expected to help maintain benchmarks...
March 01, 2003

Fluid management products from Merit featured in new contract by Conso...
March 01, 2003

Wide choice of glove vendors available under new agreement offered by ...
March 01, 2003

Consorta pursues environmental support strategy with no-mercury contra...
March 01, 2003

Novation selects Medline to provide line of custom procedure trays and...
March 01, 2003

Renewal of X-ray supply deal leaves Kodak as preferred Consorta suppli...
March 01, 2003

Correction.(Correction Notice)
March 01, 2003

Industry hopeful that Maxxim will recover. (Operating Room Supplies).(...
March 01, 2003

Study indicates outsourcing may pick up this year. (Supply Chain Manag...
March 01, 2003

Some would target supplier conduct. (Supplier News).(Brief Article)
March 01, 2003

Maxxim Medical. (Supplier News).(filed for bankruptcy )(Brief Article)
March 01, 2003

Global Healthcare Exchange LLC (GHX). (Supplier News).(firm's product ...
March 01, 2003

Heartlab, Westerly, R.I., is Rhode Island's fastest-growing high techn...
March 01, 2003

Guidant Corp. (Supplier News).(to market its implantable cardiovertor ...
March 01, 2003

Boston Scientific Corp. (Supplier News).(conducts trials of drug-eluti...
March 01, 2003

QRS Diagnostic, Minneapolis, has acquired the electronic cardiac produ...
March 01, 2003

Pfizer Inc. (Supplier News).(began utilizing a new bar code technology...
March 01, 2003

Nellcor. (Supplier News).(reported sales of its new OxiMax pulse oxime...
March 01, 2003

Carl Zeiss Meditec (formerly Humphrey Systems), Dublin, Calif., and We...
March 01, 2003

HEI Inc., Minneapolis, acquired the Colorado operations. (Supplier New...
March 01, 2003

Nucletron B.V. (Supplier News).(received U.S. and European patents for...
March 01, 2003

A five-year contract with MedAssets, Alpharetta, Ga., helped boost fou...
March 01, 2003

A safety device designed to avoid needlesticks from pre-filled syringe...
March 01, 2003

A study released in January indicates that a forehead sensor developed...
March 01, 2003

At the recent Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (H...
March 01, 2003

Laboratory Corp. of America, Burlington, N.C., agreed to pay $4.5 mill...
March 01, 2003

Dj Orthopedics. (Supplier News).(finished implementing its plan to mov...
March 01, 2003

Advanced Stent Technologies. (Supplier News).(has approval to market i...
March 01, 2003

AmeriNet Central courts IDNs, internet generation.
March 01, 2003

Doctors still rule in hip choice. (Price Survey).(Prices of hip implan...
March 01, 2003

Hospital in driver's seat with new quote system. (Contracting Strategi...
March 01, 2003

Scripps combines savings strategies: outsourcing, use review, GPO swit...
March 01, 2003

IDN growth seen ending, while hospitals still look to GPOs primarily f...
March 01, 2003

Hospitals find comparing notes, setting benchmarks help improve cost c...
March 01, 2003

Switch to digital imaging system to save $1 million annually for W. Va...
March 01, 2003

Hospitals moving toward sensor-based blood pressure monitors to replac...
March 01, 2003

Toronto hospital expands use of system for managing electronic documen...
March 01, 2003