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Articles in July, 2004 issue of Healthcare Purchasing News

• Hospitals collaborate to save $22 million in supply chain costs
• Patient monitors: simplicity reigns as technology becomes more complex
  by Rick Dana Barlow
• Artromick®
• Sempermed® Quality and Consistency First.™
• PHG Technologies
• Card printer
• Flat screen television
• Exam gloves
• Blood glucose monitor and insulin pump receives 510
• 2004 materials managers salary survey: Breaking down dynamics
  by Jeannie Akridge
• Comfortable PPE? Maximum tray weight?
  by Ray Taurasi
• Smith Medical
• Curbell Inc
• Given imaging uses chip in swallowable camera pill
• Asset management software
• Nurse station
• Freight: your place or mine? FOB origin or destination: do these terms have any real meaning in the supply chain?
  by Pat Klancer
• Undocumented aliens impact hospitals' care costs
• Study finds high noise levels in hospitals
• Skytron
• Mobile Instrument Service & Repair Inc
• Omnicell®
• Xenon lamps
• Fluid warmers
• Shock wave piezo system
• GAO report on antibiotic resistance
• Report on carotid artery stenting for carotid artery stenosis
• Stretchair™: safe, versatile patient care
• Hill-Rom: a Hillenbrand Industry
• Broadlane: advancing the business of healthcare
• Sterilization and storage case
• Privacy doors
• Test kit
• Crucell says Ebola vaccine effective on monkeys
• Nurses, materials managers must work together: AACN panel
  by Jeannie Akridge
• Managing multi-projects and multi-sites
• Ruhof
• Praxair Healthcare Services
• Abbott Vascular Devices unveils the StarClose Vascular Closure System
• Document management
• Personal item holder
• Blowing the whistle on healthcare fraud
  by Kenneth J. Nolan
• HIGPA's GPO members self-certify compliance with code of conduct
• St. Joseph generates bottom-line savings through top-line efforts
• IAHCSMM meeting keynote sparks fire under weary CS professionals
• Spectrum Surgical Instruments, Repairs, Instrument Accessories
• Microsystems: materials management
• Sharp instrument maintenance programs help cut costly repair bills
  by Julie E. Williamson
• Survival kit
• Bar code scanner
• Drug-eluting stents
  by John P. Donofrio
• Saluting the best in class brings a change of pace
  by Rick Dana Barlow
• Improvement in cancer survival rates
• Doctors' neckties can harbor bacteria
• Welch Allyn
• TimeMed®
• Lawson®
• Casters
• Protective lab coats
• Test instrument
• Experts predict slow rise in U.S. healthcare costs
• Bounty in the Bayou: Terrebonne General Medical Center Materials Management merits top honors in 2004
  by Rick Dana Barlow
• Managing multi-projects and multi-sites
  by J. Douglas Roill
• PAR Excellence: always the next generation in supply chain management
• Supermax Incorporated
• 6 ways for making sense of equipment management chaos
  by Joseph P. Schiesl
• Fabrics
• Connectivity system
• Pass the burden: suppliers should be doing more of your work
  by Jamie Wyatt
• Fast stats
• CDC director speaks at APIC
• CDC issues updated flu prevention and control recommendations
• BD: helping all people live healthy lives
• Instrument specialist, Inc
• 3M Health Care
• Surgical site safety
• Toilet seat cleaner
• Worth repeating
• Healthcare providers expect to grow IT budgets by over 10%
• 60% of RNs say ICUs don't have protocol to reduce VAP risk

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