Every year, innovators and thought leaders in health care come to ASU to speak on current medical issues and highlight the importance of the supply chain in improving organizational performance and clinical practice. …

Delivering more health care value requires a focus — from policymakers, health care providers and consumers themselves — on the whole person and episode of care rather than on the treatment. Integrating health care …

John Hammergren, the president and CEO of the McKesson Corporation, has been named the 2016 Dean's Council Executive of the …

Bioscientists, technologists and health care experts talked about current health care challenges and the opportunities to redefine and resolve them at the 2015 Symposium on Innovation in the Health Sector, hosted by the …

Brent James, chief quality officer and executive director at the Intermountain Institute for Healthcare Leadership, gives of examples of how to deliver better health care, cheaper at the 2015 Mark McKenna Health Care …

The United States has come to a fork in the road regarding its spending on health care – it can choose a route of fewer benefits and less affordability, or choose a route of making the system work better and mo …

Elizabeth Bierbower has a front row seat to the fundamental changes occurring in American health care. Speaking at the Economic Club of Phoenix recently, Bierbower, who is the president of the employer group segment fo …

Today’s healthcare tab in the U.S. exceeds some $2.5 trillion, and there are plenty of wasted greenbacks in that eye-popping figure. Information technology has the potential to reduce waste, and that’s wh …

With the healthcare sector moving toward greater price transparency, soon people will be aware of the cost of the medical goods and services they consume -- often for the first time. That information will have a pr …

Even as the U.S. begins implementation of one of the most comprehensive healthcare policies ever passed, Regina Herzlinger, a leading researcher and long-time advocate of consumer-driven healthcare, argues that po …

The annual research dissemination conference of the W. P. Carey School’s Health Sector Supply Chain Research Consortium is designed to bring practitioners and researchers together to talk about new knowledge an …

For some Americans, the Affordable Care Act - sometimes referred to as Obamacare - was supposed to fix all of the healthcare industry’s problems. It hasn’t, explained Gail Wilensky, who delivered the 2012 Ma …

Quint Studer is CEO of the Studer Group, a health care consulting firm and recipient of the 2010 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Studer was the inaugural speaker at the Mark McKenna Lecture in Health Sector …

For government and business, providers and patients, the U.S. health reform legislation promises a new world of costs and care. Most individuals without insurance will be able to get it. Those who have insurance already …

In the national debate over how to make U.S. health care more efficient, one promising area for reform is often overlooked: supplies. Whether the products are knee implants, pacemakers or expensive medications, …