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News and commentary on the healthcare equipment market.
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MATTER Exec Shares Hospital Innovation Insights on February OM Broadcast
February 24, 2017The challenges health system leaders face in identifying and acting on innovative ideas were the topic of the February 2017 broadcast in the OpenMarkets Healthcare Broadcast Series. OpenMarkets Senior Vice President Tom Derrick was joined by Maryam Salah, Vice President of Programming at MATTER, Chicago’s healthcare innovation hub, in sharing examples and strategies from their work with startup companies, provider organizations, and equipment suppliers, along with six steps to successful innovation. -
Can Easier Access to New Equipment Suppliers Improve Cost, Quality, and Outcomes (CQO)?
February 20, 2017Can easier access to new capital equipment suppliers and alternative distributors improve a providers supply chain cost, quality, and outcome (CQO) performance? -
OpenMarkets Provider Partners Included in GHX "Best 50" for Supply Chain
February 16, 2017OpenMarkets provider partners Seattle Children’s Hospital and Medical University Hospital Authority were named by GHX as the 2016 “Best 50” Healthcare Providers for Supply Chain Excellence. -
MATTER Joins OpenMarkets to Explore Hospital Innovation in February Broadcast
February 14, 2017Maryam Saleh, Vice President of Programming at MATTER, will lead discussions on the topic “Bringing Innovation to Hospitals” in a new broadcast for the OpenMarkets Education Series, slated for Thursday, February 23, at 12 p.m. EST/9 a.m. PST. -
For Healthcare Providers, OpenMarkets Improves Capital Equipment Process
February 09, 2017In this 2 minute video, supply chain executives from leading hospitals talk about how OpenMarkets helps them transform the way they buy capital equipment. -
Healthcare Experts Cite 2017 Challenges for Hospital CFOs
January 27, 2017Key insight for hospital CFO's from Beckers, L.E.K. Consulting and OpenMarkets. -
Capital Equipment Purchasing Trends for January, February, and March
January 18, 2017Five key trends to help hospitals operate more efficiently and work more proactively with suppliers to drive waste out of the healthcare supply chain. -
L.E.K. Consulting on the Challenges of Capital
January 18, 2017Healthcare supply chain experts from LEK Consulting analyze the $30BN capital equipment industry. -
New Provider and Supplier Clients Expand the OpenMarkets Community
January 16, 2017New suppliers include Panasonic Healthcare and Boehringer Laboratories, and the new providers are Russell Medical Center, Weirton Medical Center of Weirton, WV and NYU Langone. -
"This Can Change the Way Capital is Acquired"
January 10, 2017Supply Chain leaders review the OpenMarkets Exchange, a Slack-like communication tool for the healthcare capital market -
Preview: OpenMarkets Upcoming January Broadcast
January 06, 2017L.E.K. Consulting will present data on the inefficiencies in the healthcare capital equipment market. -
"Providers and Suppliers Don't Partner Together Well"
January 06, 20172 minute video from CHRISTUS Health, Torrence Medical Center and Wellspan about how to fix healthcare supply chain partnerships -
"That One-Stop Shop for Capital"
January 05, 20172 minute video from Wellspan Health, CHRISTUS health and other leading hospitals on why OpenMarkets helps them transform the way they buy capital equipment. -
Fourth Quarter Growth Highlights the Expansion of the OpenMarkets Community in 2016
January 03, 2017"We're moving toward a major improvement in the way healthcare capital equipment is bought and sold." -