Most Recent Articles from Healthcare Purchasing News

• Be accountable 

  The venerable motto of the Boy Scouts of America is "be prepared." It's a mantra that should be--and typically is--embraced by healthcare...

  11/01/09 by Rick Dana Barlow · More from publication

• Fast stats 

  1847 is the year Ignaz Semmelweis insisted that students and physicians clean their hands with a chlorine solution between each patient in the...

  11/01/09 · More from publication

• FDA: Institute of Medicine to study premarket clearance process for medical devices 

  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it has commissioned the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to study the premarket notification...

  11/01/09 · More from publication

• AHRMM membership selects 2010 Board of Directors 

  The Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM) has announced the winners of its 2010 Board of Directors elections. Newly...

  11/01/09 · More from publication

• New tools help emergency planners select alternate care facilities during disasters 

  Two interactive computer tools released by HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality will help emergency planners and responders select and...

  11/01/09 · More from publication

• Performance improvement programs fighting a loss cause: Lean, Six Sigma supplanting CQI, TQM in efficiency, quality arsenal 

  When budgets hit the rocks, regardless of economic climate, performance improvement programs tend to roll. Back in the 1980s and 1990s,...

  11/01/09 by Rick Dana Barlow · More from publication

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