Archive for 2013
Are you ready for the FDA’s UDI mandate?
Q: What is the FDA’s UDI mandate? A: The FDA issued a final rule on September 24, 2013 establishing a labeling system for the identification of medical devices through distribution…
Read MoreReflecting on AHRMM 2013
If you attended the 51st Annual AHRMM Conference in San Diego recently, you might have noticed that vendors representing inventory management solutions were more numerous than in previous years. This was…
Read MoreThe Crisis of Medical Billing Practices Today
A couple of articles published in the past couple of months about hospital billing have illustrated a great crisis of our modern healthcare system in the U.S. There was the…
Read MoreVUEMED and Optimé Supply Chain team up
We’re very excited about our new collaboration with Optimé Supply Chain. You may have seen on nbcnews.com or on Yahoo! Finance that VUEMED and Optimé have joined forces to create OptiVue™,…
Read MoreCollaborating with hospital IT departments
We were recently asked to share any particularly difficult experiences we’ve had managing an organization’s inventory. For us, the biggest challenges have probably been with the IT departments of hospitals. Whenever a…
Read MorePatient safety – lessons from other industries
When I was at the OR Manager Conference in Las Vegas this fall, I met one of the OR managers who recounted to me his ordeal getting there from the…
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