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Hospitals in the New York City area are turning to a private distributor to airlift millions of protective masks out of China. The U.S. military is flying specialized swabs out of Italy. And a Chicago-area medical supply firm is taking to the skies as well because a weekslong boat trip across the ocean just won’t …
Hospital Suppliers Take To The Skies To Combat Dire Shortages Of COVID-19 GearRead More
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In this special “Planting Seeds” episode, John Pritchard and ANAE President Scott Pecore share feedback and discuss responses from suppliers to our COVID-19 survey. They also discuss the future relationship between the supplier and provider communities, what social-distance selling means for the National Account Executive during this un-ordinary time, and what a post-COVID-19 world will look …
Listen Now: Special COVID-19 episode of National Accounts TodayRead More
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Kaiser Permanente canceled its $900 million headquarters project in Oakland, officials said Tuesday. The healthcare giant planned to build a 1.6 million-square-foot office tower that would have been Oakland’s biggest commercial project. But this week, the company told city officials the project was no longer happening. “Delays and increasing costs related to this project caused …
Kaiser Permanente cancels $900M headquarters projectRead More
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Jonathan Manis, senior vice president and chief information officer at Christus Health, spoke about the current COVID-19 situation. Manis says as a result of this coronavirus crisis and our collective response to it, we just might be seeing what healthcare can look like once this crisis has passed. And it will pass, leaving all of …
There’ll be no “back to normal” for healthcare after COVID-19 crisisRead More
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John Strong, a 45-year veteran of the healthcare industry, goes over the advantages and disadvantages of a medical product tracking system and how it could have prevented the supply shortages of key medical products due to the COVID-19 health crisis. Check out the List Here
Do We Finally Have A Tipping Point For A Better Healthcare Supply Chain?Read More
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CNBC’s Meg Tirrell talks with Premier CEO Susan DeVore about the shortage of medical supplies hospitals are facing amid the coronavirus pandemic. Watch the interview here
Premier CEO on medical supply shortage hospitals are facingRead More
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Steven Berkow, Advisory Board’s VP of Provider Research, spoke with Patrick J. Brennan, MD CMO and Senior VP at Penn Medicine, about what steps his health system is taking to care for a surge in COVID-19 patients. Penn Medicine is a six-hospital health system, including the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and …
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Boston Medical Center, which launched telehealth visits on March 16, has seen a rapid increase in usage. Within 48 hours of deploying the service, the hospital had 1,500 virtual visits scheduled, according to the report. Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, BMC was hardly doing any telehealth, said Rebecca Grochow Mishuris, MD, associate chief medical information …
Telehealth visits at Mass General, Boston Medical Center skyrocketRead More
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Kathleen Sebelius, who served as secretary of Health and Human Services under President Barack Obama, helped lead the administration’s negotiations with Congress over the Affordable Care Act and implementation of the law. Sebelius, who is also a member of the Kaiser Family Foundation board of directors, recently joined Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News’ chief Washington …
Sebelius, Looking Back At ACA, Says the Country’s Never “Seen This Kind of Battle”Read More
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A senior State Department official in a briefing with reporters on Tuesday said the U.S. is asking countries if they have excess materials or excess capacity to manufacture key items needed to battle the spread of the virus. The State Department has set up a “tracker” to organize which countries have available supplies, and the …
U.S. Asking Allies for Extra Stockpiles to Help Fight CoronavirusRead More
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In this episode, John Pritchard and ANAE President Scott Pecore share COVID-19 supplier survey feedback from the latest special edition of National Accounts Weekly titled “Planting Seeds.” They also discuss the future relationship between the supplier & provider communities, post-COVID-19, and what social-distance selling means for the National Account Executive during this unordinary time.
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John Strong, guest writer — The U.S. is blessed to have the most innovative and productive development capacity for new medical devices and pharmaceuticals of anyone around the globe. At the same time, we still haven’t engaged the technology
Do We Finally Have A Tipping Point For A Better Healthcare Supply Chain?Read More
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About: During this interactive session, Mary Beth Lang, VP and Chief Supply Chain & Procurement Officer for Kaiser Permanente will share insights into the priorities of her IDN as well as specific ways that ANAE members can develop more successful relationships with supply chain executives. Mary Beth will share general best practices as well as …
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As a national accounts leader, it can be difficult to know what strategic actions are necessary to keep your teams ahead of their goals.
How can you ensure that your team mission, vision and objectives are not compromised?
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