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from active service as a Navy Medical ervice orps fficer, akes translated his broad and essential military logistics skills to a variety of private-sector hospitals and healthcare organizations during the next years, improving operations, redesigning workflows and reducing supply expenses. Barbara Strain, VH, has become syn- onymous with the concept of healthcare value analysis, but from the very beginning she has emphasized and orchestrated some- thing much deeper and grander upply chain collaborating and communicating hand-in-hand with clinical operations to reinforce physician, surgeon, nursing and laboratory practices with financial and operational improvements. Her clinical, financial and operational focus and influ- ence, by and large, makes her the grande dame of value management, a compre- hensive business and clinical concept she created decades ago and whose principles and practices she applied to and honed at her own healthcare organization before sharing with other facilities as a seasoned consultant, and member of Healthcare Purchasing News ditorial dvisory Board. F. DeWight Titus grew and transformed
his grandfathers and fathers community retail pharmacy into multiple locations that eventually expanded into a national and then multinational distribution com- pany. arly on, Titus recognized the value of what his familys business offered the community, starting as a teenaged clerk where he enoyed interacting with patients, a philosophy he instilled within those sup- porting the pharmaceutical and medical surgical product distribution company that bore his name until its acquisition by cesson in the late s. Mark A. Van Sumeren may be most renowned during the last two years for his data-rich, innovative and inventive “V- eport.” That daily newslet- ter reaches a host of influential healthcare clinical, financial and operational leaders who rely on its accuracy and integrity to foster essential business decision-making. But his illustrious and long-standing career in healthcare distribution consulting and strategic planning propels Van umeren to the top of the list of mostsought-after stra- tegic minds. To date he has helped guide a variety of award-winning provider and supplier organizations.
FDA participates in ‘collaborative communities’ to address medical device challenges The .. Food and rug dministration (F) announced participation in several new collaborative communities aimed at addressing challenges in patient healthcare.
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topics such as medical device development and product quality understanding of val- vular heart disease innovations in digital pathology reducing rates of intended self-inury and suicidal acts by people with diabetes and strategies to increase the awareness, understanding and participa- tion of racial and ethnic minorities in the medical technology industry. The F participates in these collabora- tive communities ollaborative ommunity on phthalmic maging ational valuation ystem for health Technology oordinating enter (Tcc) ollaborative ommunity tandardizing aboratory ractices in harmacogenomics nitiative (T) ollaborative ommunity nternational iquid Biopsy tandardiza- tion lliance () avier rtificial ntelligence () orld onsortium
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Model aims to predict and manage potential supply shortages linked to disasters xpression etworks, a provider of tech- nology solutions to the epartment of
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efense and lobal Healthcare xchange (H), announced that they are collabo- rating to develop a unique prototype that will help predict supply constraints and disease hotspots throughout the nited tates. The .. rmy edical esearch and evelopment ommand () has awarded xpression etworks a phase award in support of the edical Tech- nology nterprise onsortiums (T) ational mergency Telecritical are etwork (T) roect. T is focused on supporting the extension of high-quality, remote intensive care to tra- ditional and non-traditional and temporary healthcare facilities that lack adequate criti- cal care expertise and resources necessary to combat future crises. everaging Hs extensive pool of existing supply chain data and analytics in combination with other data sources and reporting capabilities, xpression etworks will build a predictive analytics engine that could help the Federal govern- ment gain earlier visibility into supply shortages and make more data-driven deci- sions during national health emergencies such as V-. The predictive analytics prototype,
called the supply constraint predictor, is intended to help the government better identify where and when surges are hap- pening with near real-time visibility and inform decisions such as how and where to deploy the trategic ational tockpile () repository. The funding stems from a contract sponsored by the HH and was awarded through T.
“COVID-19 Compensation Lottery Prize” scam The orld Health rganization (H) has been made aware of correspondences being circulated by scammers (acting under the name of apital Finance, nc. ondon), falsely notifying recipients of such cor- respondences that they have been selected as a beneficiarywinner of a million lottery compensation prize payment for losses and damages suffered as a result of the V- pandemic. These fraudulent correspondences falsely
allege that the so-called “V- ottery ompensation rize” is brought to you by H, in association with the nternational onetary Fund and Bill elinda ates Foundation. These scammers falsely state that they
have been appointed by H to process payment. n addition, these scams seek to obtain personal details and, in some cases, money from the recipients of such fraudu- lent correspondences. HPN
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