Surfacide awarded GPO contract for UV-C solution
August 12, 2020 – Surfacide (Waukesha, WI) was awarded a contract with Vizient Inc (Irving, TX) for Surfacide’s innovative multiple emitter UV-C solution, effective July…
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Encompass Group signs new NovaPlus agreement for PPE with Vizient for additional 40M isolation gowns annually
August 10, 2020 – Vizient, Inc. (Irving, TX) announced a new agreement with Encompass Group, LLC for its Novaplus Enhanced Supply Program that will increase…
Premier: Telehealth sees record usage, increasing 149x during first wave
August 06, 2020 – Virtual visits to ambulatory settings hit record usage during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing 149X in aggregate between…
HealthTrust honors healthcare systems for excellence, sustainability
August 05, 2020 – HealthTrust has singled out five of its member organizations for supply chain excellence and social stewardship benefiting their providers, patients and…
Premier, Somerset Pharma partner to stabilize pricing, enhance competition for antibiotic used to treat respiratory infections
August 04, 2020 – Premier Inc. (Charlotte, NC), through its ProvideGx program, has partnered with Somerset Pharma, LLC., to supply sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim, an antibiotic combination used…
Intermountain Healthcare partners with Intalere company HITT to implement OptiMIM
August 03, 2020 – Intalere (St. Louis, MO) that announced Intermountain Healthcare (Salt Lake City, UT), along with a number of other leading health systems,…
Premier Inc: “Five Reasons Health Systems are Prioritizing Integration with Specialists”
August 03, 2020 – “Specialists and health systems have played a symbiotic role in the U.S. healthcare system for years, but in the months leading up…
Premier: Statement for the Record on the Senate Finance Committee Hearing on Protecting the Reliability of the U.S. Medical Supply Chain During COVID-19
July 31, 2020 – “In a statement for the record for the Senate Finance Committee hearing on protecting the reliability of the U.S. medical supply…
NIH to use Premier Healthcare Database to evaluate wider health impacts of COVID-19
July 30, 2020 – Premier Inc. (Charlotte, NC) announced a data licensing agreement with the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The agreement grants researchers in…
Vizient supply chain expert Cathy Denning to participate in Senate Finance Committee Hearing on counterfeit PPE
July 30, 2020 – Vizient, Inc. (Irving, TX) announced that Cathy Denning, a sourcing and supply chain expert, is testifying before the U.S. Senate Committee…