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If there’s one business lesson to be learned from the early decades of the 21st century, it is that technology is driving change at a pace that humanity has never seen - Danielle Sabrina
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How Big Tech Is Going After Your Health Care
When Daniel Poston, a second-year medical student in Manhattan, opened the App Store on his iPhone a couple of weeks ago, he was astonished to see an app for a new heart study prominently featured.
People often learn about new research studies through in-person conversations with their doctors. But not only did this study, run by Stanford University, use a smartphone to recruit consumers, it was financed by Apple. And it involved using an app on the Apple Watch to try to identify irregular heart rhythms.
Intrigued, Mr. Poston, who already owned an Apple Watch, registered for the heart study right away. Then he took to Twitter to encourage others to do likewise — suggesting…
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Amazon’s Latest Ambition: To Be a Major Hospital Supplier
The online retailer is pushing hard to expand its foothold in medical supplies, creating a marketplace where hospitals could shop to stock emergency rooms, operating suites and outpatient facilities.
Hospitals Waste Billions of Dollars in Medical Supplies
Hospitals discard usable medical equipment worth billions of dollars.
How This Startup Is Taking a Fresh Look at Healthcare
If there’s one business lesson to be learned from the early decades of the 21st century, it is that technology is driving change at a pace that humanity has never seen. And, these advancements are disrupting industries as diverse as transportation and advertising –– even creating new industries like cryptocurrency. Despite the promise of technology-driven innovations, one industry that arguably is slow to adapt to these trends is the medical device industry.
What Hospitals Waste
The nation’s health care tab is sky-high. We’re tracking down the reasons. First stop: A look at all the perfectly good stuff hospitals throw away.
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Amazon’s entry into health care starts with gloves, dental bonding agents and syringes
Amazon has been expanding its medical supply business — selling gloves, syringes and other health-care sundries to dentists, doctors and hospitals — in an early sign of its efforts to enter the health-care industry. Unlike Amazon’s secretive plans to shake up the prescription drug industry, or its initiative to develop technology tools to rein in health costs for its own employees, Amazon has not hidden this effort.
Evolving Design Thinking For Intelligent Medical Equipment
Ultimately, the connected medical equipment of tomorrow will have embedded intelligence at its heart, enabling clinicians and healthcare staff to benefit from improved devices in the field and better care for patients as a result.
GreenLight Medical's Online Platform Could Revolutionize Medical Device Procurement for Hospitals
The company still faces some obstacles to its widespread adoption, the biggest of which is the medical industry’s slowness to adopt new tech. Many hospitals don’t even have budgets in place for value analysis software like GreenLight Medical, so the company is essentially carving out a space for itself. This has led to slow sales cycles that sometimes last a year or longer.
In age of mergers, hospitals get strategic with medical supply purchasing
Since medical devices and supplies represent about 20 percent of a typical hospital's budget -- second only to labor costs -- opportunities to save on the supply chain side may only grow, especially with the rise of non-acute care organizations such as off-site dialysis centers, home and hospice care and ambulatory care centers. Bonetti said their growth will change the dynamics of the way supplies are being purchased. "There's a tremendous opportunity right now in hospital supply chain," he said. "Historically, it hasn't been treated as a strategic function. People are starting to recognize the important role it plays."
Medical Equipment Donated to Developing Nations Usually Ends Up on the Junk Heap
Despite good intentions, life-saving medical donations often end up discarded or broken. New training programs aim to change all that.
Medical Supply Industry Becomes Big Business Gains in Population and Life Expectancy Spar Boon
1964...There's no doubt, however, about the healthy state of the medical supply business. It continues to grow at a boom rate and has emerged as a major industry far outstripping the over‐all growth of the national economy. There is a complex of reasons behind this phenomenon. They include the expanding population, longer life expectancy, a rapid increase in the number of those 65 or over, greater use of private medical insurance and the rising standard of living. Hospitals account ior the larger portion of the medical supply business and a few striking statistics show why.
These Drones Drop Life-Saving Medical Supplies In Remote Areas
Isolated areas that were once left to fend for themselves during medical emergencies will now be able to speedily get the supplies they need with the help of drones.
Resources
HME News
HME News is the monthly business newspaper for home medical equipment providers.
Medgadget
Since 2004, Medgadget has been reporting on medical technology from around the world. We cover the latest medical devices and approvals, technology breakthroughs and discoveries, conduct exclusive interviews with med tech leaders, and file reports from healthcare conferences.
MedShare
MedShare is a 501c(3) humanitarian aid organization dedicated to improving the quality of life of people, communities and our planet by sourcing and directly delivering surplus medical supplies and equipment to communities in need around the world.
MedSurplus Alliance
MedSurplus Alliance is a cross-sector alliance of medical surplus donors, medical surplus recovery organizations, and product recipients that works collaboratively to improve access to quality donated medical products, through accreditation, capacity-building, management and technology solutions, and leadership.
Partners for World Health
We collect medical supplies that healthcare facilities in the U.S. are required to discard and ship them to countries in need.
Partnership for Quality Medical Donations
Partnership for Quality Medical Donations (PQMD) is a global alliance leading the development and championing of high standards in medical supply and service donation. PQMD seeks to enhance access to health care in underserved communities and in areas affected by disaster.
The Good Body
The Good Body brings you reviews, case studies, insights and analysis for health products, equipment and gadgets. Extensive research that is second to none.
Medical Dealer
Medical Dealer provides more than 16,000 medical equipment purchasers with comprehensive information about new and pre-owned medical equipment, parts and service, including in-depth coverage of timely issues, industry and regulatory updates, new product news and profiles of people in the industry.
Project C.U.R.E.
Project C.U.R.E. is the largest provider of donated medical supplies and equipment to developing countries around the world.
Supplies Over Seas
Supplies Over Seas improves global health and the environment through recovery and redistribution of surplus medical supplies.
World Medical Relief
Our mission is to facilitate the distribution of surplus medical resources where they are needed. As such, our programs have both a local, national and international focus.
