Supply Chain

Healthcare Trust of America, Inc., a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based self-managed, non-traded real estate investment trust, has closed on a $275 million unsecured revolving credit facility.

The Premier healthcare alliance reports that its new failure-to-supply program has helped more than 1,400 members save more than $3.5 million in the past year.

Abbott Laboratories, B. Braun Medical and Boehringer Ingelheim Roxane have agreed to pay $421 million to settle False Claims Act allegations, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.

Healthcare organizations are moving closer to the adoption of global supply chain standards, according to an independent survey of healthcare providers, group purchasing organizations, device manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors.

In the midst of recession and widespread uncertainty about the implications of healthcare reform, hospitals across the United States were forced in 2010 to implement innovative purchasing strategies to help cut costs.

A new study from the Office of the Inspector General has discovered that Medicaid may be paying for drugs it shouldn't.

Thomson Reuters has acquired GeneGo, a provider of biology and disease information, analytics and decision support services for pharmaceutical research and development.

TeleTracking announced that Memorial University Medical Center (MUMC), a 530-bed hospital in Savannah, Ga., is managing assets more effectively and at a lower cost since deploying TeleTracking’s RadarFind sensor-network based real-time location system (RTLS).

H.D. Smith, a Springfield, Ill.-based pharmaceutical wholesaler, has been selected by the Moffitt Cancer Center as its primary pharmaceutical supplier of critical therapies designed to help patients undergoing treatment for cancer.

After three years of using Craneware's Chargemaster Toolkit at its five teaching hospitals, Continuum Health Partners will add new tools designed to improve revenue integrity.