Amazon isn’t coming to healthcare – they are already here Last month, I wrote about a trend I am seeing where manufacturers are returning to you, the distribution sales rep, a place that has made the best of the best successful for decades. I believe this is happening for multiple reasons, but one specifically stands out – your relationship with the practice. Recently, I … [Read more...]
Quick Bytes
Print it About a decade ago, when Amazon introduced its first e-reader, publishers panicked that digital books would take over the industry, the way digital transformed the music industry, reports The New York Times. And for a while, that fear seemed totally justified. At one point, the growth trajectory for e-books was more than 1,200 percent. Bookstores suffered, and print … [Read more...]
News
Alfa Wassermann announces 2017 President’s Club winners Alfa Wassermann Diagnostic Technologies (West Caldwell, NJ) announced its 2017 President’s Club winners, Frank Pollock (Business Development Manager of the MidAtlantic region) and Jennifer Kennedy (Business Development Manager of the West region). President’s Club is the highest honor awarded to the top sales … [Read more...]
Contracting Executive Profile: Justin Freed
Editor’s note: Justin Freed was selected as one of the “Ten People to Watch in Healthcare Contracting” by the Journal of Healthcare Contracting, a sister publication of Repertoire. Justin Freed, Regional vice president of supply chain, California/Texas, Providence St. Joseph Health, Renton, Washington Formed in 2016 with the merger of Renton, Washington-based … [Read more...]
Joint Commission’s goals for patient safety
The Joint Commission created its National Patient Safety Goals in 2002 to help accredited organizations address areas of concern regarding patient safety. They are updated regularly. The 2018 National Safety Goal No. 8 – Healthcare-associated infections – contains the following components: Comply with either the current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention … [Read more...]
Congress Tackles Vital Public Health Legislation
HIDA Government Affairs Update By Linda Rouse O’Neill, Vice President, Government Affairs While the delay of the medical device tax and recent cuts to the corporate tax rate have been top-of-mind for healthcare distributors and manufacturers, lawmakers will soon take up another piece of vital healthcare legislation. The Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act … [Read more...]
Healthy Reps
CHIP is stroke risk Why is it that most people who have heart attacks or strokes have few or no conventional risk factors, such as high cholesterol and blood pressure, a history of smoking or diabetes, or a family history of cardiovascular disease? Scientists may have figured it out, reports The New York Times. They have learned that a bizarre accumulation of mutated stem … [Read more...]
Infection Rates Down
Providers are making progress on reducing healthcare-associated infections Healthcare in the U.S. is safer now than it was 10 years ago, according to recent data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The incidence of central-line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) dropped significantly between 2008 and 2016, while catheter-associated urinary … [Read more...]
What if the United States had the best healthcare and nobody showed up?
By Bruce Stanley What happens when care becomes cost-prohibitive? We routinely hear about how great healthcare is in this country, with our state-of-the-art technologies, digital health, and the best labs, doctors, distribution network, products, treatments, medications, innovation, hospitals, etc. Often the pundits say if only we could run it like a “real” business, we … [Read more...]
Toolkit for Infection Prevention
If your long-term-care customers are having difficulty controlling catheter-associated urinary tract infections, refer them to the “Toolkit To Reduce CAUTI and other HAIs in Long-Term Care Facilities,” from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Based on principles and methods from the Comprehensive … [Read more...]