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Articles in August, 2007 issue of Healthcare Purchasing News

• Insights and outlooks from the Best in Class 2007: SSM Health Care-St. Louis' supply chain team leader Anthony Trupiano provides some keen observations about their attitudes and operations
• The Joint Commission announces 2008 National Patient Safety Goals
• Heart attack death rates appear lower at 'America's best hospitals'
• Managing inventory with RFID yields financial and operational benefits
  by Carola Endicott
• CardinalHealth
• Spotlighting three wise guys covering supply chain management
  by Fred W. Crans
• CMS proposes policy, payment changes for physician services
• Wish-worthy CS design takes careful planning
  by Julie E. Williamson
• Bariatric catalog
• Mobile Instrument Service & Repair Inc
• Stryker
• Price check: trust, but verify: 4 new rules for achieving price parity with your peers
  by Robert T. Yokl
• IRSG
• What's that they say about people who live in glass houses?
  by Rick Dana Barlow
• Spotlighting significant news events, supply chain opportunities and threats
  by Rick Dana Barlow
• FDA clears for marketing first quick test for malaria
• Sleep surfaces
• Rosebud Solutions®
• What do you need to know before purchasing a steam sterilizer?
  by Kristina L. Pirollo
• Covidien
• Visits to EDs jump to all-time high of 115 million
• Pressure ulcers hit a sore spot in the OR
  by Jeannie Akridge
• Ruhof
• TS[O.sub.3]
• Matching patients and technology: controlling implant costs begins with the right choices
  by Nick Sears
• Check it out: air cleansing in healthcare facilities
  by Susan Cantrell
• Microsurgical instrument trays
• IMS
• Mobile solutions bridge the gap between suppliers and providers
  by David Kerr
• EMR software
• Fast stats
• Salaries slide and pay hikes stabilize, Pacific facilities lead cash gains
• SPSmedical announces monthly audio seminars for healthcare facility in-services
• Continuous feed heat sealer
• PAR Excellence Systems
• Time to close the cracking door debate
  by Thomas K. Moore
• Final citizenship guidelines for Medicaid eligibility from CMS
• CDC infection tracking system now available to all U.S. hospitals
• Endoscope cleaner and reprocessor
• Olympus
• Amerinet®
• Wire mesh containers
• Six seconds to success: SSM Health Care-St. Louis strives to be lean logistics machine
  by Rick Dana Barlow
• Is your sterilizer grimy? Chamber cleaning a vital—yet often skipped—step
• Lateral positioning cushion
• Worth repeating
• APIC releases prevalence study of MRSA in healthcare facilities
• Noncondensible gases: undesirable contaminants in your steam supply
  by Walt Deacon
• Laparoscopic electrode
• Global Healthcare Exchange
• HealthTrust® Purchasing Group
• 30 lashes
• Re-opening the cracked door debate; renovating decontam
  by Tay Taurasi
• Premier
• VHA®