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Healthcare providers are working around the clock to safely care for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the last thing they need to worry about is whether their products are reliable, safe and legitimate. Unfortunately, a grey market is amassing around personal protective equipment (PPE), as unauthorized, third-party sellers hawk masks, gowns and other scarce …

Scammers May be Trafficking Counterfeit or Faulty Products During COVID-19Read More

Dail-eNews editor Daniel Beaird interviews Repertoire editor Mark Thill about the FDA’s letter to healthcare providers on surgical mask and gown conservation strategies and the possible re-use of PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic. Listen to the podcast here

Dail-eNews Podcast – PPE availability during COVID-19Read More

“Hospitals across the U.S. are running out of the masks, gowns and other equipment they need to protect staff against the novel coronavirus as they struggle to take care of patients, say hospital officials, doctors and others in the industry. “The Pentagon stepped into the breach by offering on Tuesday to supply up to five …

Hospitals Running Out of Masks, Other Key EquipmentRead More

Americans with employer-based health coverage could be hit with high out-of-pocket costs if they’re hospitalized for the coronavirus. To project costs tied to coronavirus treatments, researchers analyzed pneumonia hospitalizations from a claims database of 18 million people enrolled in large employer health plans in 2018. The analysis shows that the average pneumonia hospital admission for …

What Coronavirus Treatment Could Cost YouRead More

To help answer questions on how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the U.S. healthcare supply chain, The Journal of Healthcare Contracting  reached out to Michael Schiller, CMRP, senior director, Association for Health Care Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM), a professional membership group of the American Hospital Association (AHA).  Schiller provides insights into what is going on at …

AHRMM advice to supply chain leaders: Review and Implement CDC StrategiesRead More

Beaumont Health has joined several other hospitals in processing a limited number of COVID-19 tests in its own laboratory. “We must conserve our testing supplies. That’s why we’re only processing our own tests for certain patients who meet COVID-19 testing criteria and are admitted to our hospitals or are receiving treatment in one of our …

Coronavirus outbreak: Beaumont Health starts testingRead More

On Tuesday the company told sellers and vendors that it would accept only shipments of “household staples, medical supplies, and other high-demand products” to its warehouse until April 5 to deal with the high demand of those products amid the coronavirus crisis. That means sellers who use Amazon’s storage and delivery network for a fixed …

Amazon to stop accepting all products other than medical supplies and household staples to its warehouses amid coronavirus crisisRead More

With the coronavirus spreading across the U.S., some hospitals and health systems are canceling elective surgery to prevent the spread of coronavirus as well as dedicate resources to its coronavirus response. The American College of Surgeons recommended hospitals and health systems review scheduled elective procedures and plan to minimize, postpone or cancel them. U.S. Surgeon …

Health Systems Canceling, Postponing SurgeriesRead More

In an interview with the New York Times at the beginning of March, World Health Organization (WHO) official Dr Bruce Aylward said China first reorganized its medical response to the outbreak by moving half of all medical care online. In England, NHS bosses recently asked GP surgeries to start carrying out more remote consultations in …

How the World of Health and Tech is Looking at the Coronavirus OutbreakRead More

Trinity Health named Lorraine Lutton as president and CEO of Mount Carmel Health System (Columbus, OH), effective April 6. Since 2016, Lutton has been president and CEO of Roper St. Francis Healthcare (RSFH) (Charleston, SC), where she led transformations in clinical quality, culture, governance and financial strength. She replaces Mike Englehart, who has served as interim CEO at Mount Carmel since …

Trinity Health names new CEO of Mount Carmel Health SystemRead More

For over a decade, I taught college students how to communicate in professional settings. Every class began with a single, all-consuming thesis: “Nobody will ever want to read anything you write at work. Period.” That’s a harsh and, perhaps, disheartening warning. Particularly for bright-eyed, soon-to-be employees about to make their dent in the universe. The real …

Your Colleagues Don’t Read Anything You Write. Here Are 8 Ways to Change That.Read More

Newsweek has ranked Cleveland Clinic the No. 2 hospital in the world, as part of its World’s Best Hospitals 2020 analysis. In the U.S., Cleveland Clinic again earned the No. 2 ranking, while four other Cleveland Clinic hospitals also were listed among the best hospitals nationwide: Cleveland Clinic Fairview Hospital Cleveland Clinic Florida-Weston Cleveland Clinic …

Cleveland Clinic named No. 2 Hospital in the World by NewsweekRead More

In afternoon trading on Monday, Healthcare stocks were the best performing sector, losing just 6.5%. Within that group, AmerisourceBergen Corp. (Symbol: ABC) and Quest Diagnostics, Inc. (Symbol: DGX) were two large stocks leading the way, showing a loss of 1.4% and 2.1%, respectively. Among healthcare ETFs, one ETF following the sector was the Health Care …

Monday Sector Leaders: Healthcare, ServicesRead More

Amazon has banned 10,000 users for price gouging and removed 1million products for making spurious health claims amid the global  coronavirus outbreak. Unscrupulous online traders have tried to cash in on the health emergency as stocks of hand sanitizer and face masks have run low in stores amid panic-buying. Two-packs of Purrell hand sanitizer, which …

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