Healthcare - Articles - Page 31

Vizient Unveils Supply Chain Analytics Platform for Healthcare

August 15, 2016

Vizient Inc.

Vizient Inc. has developed Vizient Savings Actualyzer, a supply-chain analytics platform for the healthcare industry.

Makers of Vaccines in China Face New Logistics Regulations

August 9, 2016

Fierce Pharma

Sanofi provided insight into the logistics hurdles faced by vaccine makers in China after distribution and sales rule changes were made in response to illegal vaccine sales.

Advancing Global Supply Chain. Together.

August 2, 2016

The event for Medical Supply Chain Innovators

Global Eyewear Industry to See Sales Reach $136Bn by 2021, Study Says

July 20, 2016

Euromonitor International

Worldwide sales of eyewear are forecast to reach $136bn by 2021, up from $121n in 2016, according to research from Euromonitor International.

The Devastating Impact of Food Recalls on the Supply Chain

July 8, 2016

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

The recall of a single food ingredient can have massive implications for manufacturers and retailers, ranging over multiple supply chains.

Boston Scientific: How the Life Sciences Sector Addresses Risk Management

June 30, 2016

SupplyChainBrain

Michael Landberg, strategic global sourcing manager at Boston Scientific, describes how a major player in life-sciences approaches the critical issue of risk management.

Pfizer to Build Biologics Plant in China Using GE's Time-Reducing Modular Construction Process

June 30, 2016

Fierce Retail

Pfizer will build a biologics plant in China, where it will make biosimilars for the Chinese market but also for sale throughout the world. The New York drugmaker has turned to GE for construction of the facility, which has developed a modular construction process that will cut the cost and allow the plant to be operational in about 18 months, instead of three years.

Real-Time Location System Enables Clinic to Keep Tabs on Patients, Employees, Assets

June 29, 2016

RFID Journal

Since opening last month, the new Stanford Children's Health Specialty Services - Sunnyvale clinic has received the best patient satisfaction survey results of any of Stanford Children's Health 60-some facilities. The health-care company attributes the high patient satisfaction levels, in large part, to a real-time location system that enables the staff to find patients, personnel and assets efficiently, says Lee Kwiatkowski, Stanford Children's Health's director of ambulatory transformation.

PTC Issues PLM Application for Medical Device Industry

June 17, 2016

PTC

PTC has made available its Value-Ready Deployment (VRD) application for the medical device industry.

Dental Supplies Company Exemplifies Digital Transformation Through Cloud, Mobile, IoT

June 16, 2016

Fortune

You probably don't think of Henry Schein as a technology company. In fact, you probably don't think of Henry Schein at all. At No. 268 on the Fortune 500, it is one of the least known names on the list, in the most mundane of businesses - wholesaling supplies to dentists. But Henry Schein has managed to place itself at the center of a technological revolution. It has turned its dull-as-mouthwash catalogue business into the leading platform for digital dentistry, and increasingly for other medical practices.