Healthcare Purchasing News

Established in 1977, Healthcare Purchasing News (HPN) magazine is the sole magazine focused on delivering in-depth healthcare business news. It provides valuable insights, solutions, and narratives about medical products and systems that impact healthcare supply chain management. HPN is published monthly in print and offers daily online updates. Our audience consists of healthcare executives and professionals involved in materials and supply chain management, surgical services, infection prevention, central service, and sterile processing, as well as clinical members of product evaluation committees at healthcare facilities.

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House Republicans’ Plan for Medicaid Emphasizes Work Requirements

3 days ago | hpnonline.com | Mark Hagland

On Sunday evening, May 11, the leaders of the House Republican Caucus in the U.S. Congress released the details of their plan to make considerable cuts to the Medicaid program, one that critics say will cause millions to lose health insurance coverage, but which avoided earlier, more drastic plans.
FDA Announces Aggressive Timeline for Use of Generative AI Across All Centers by End of June

4 days ago | hpnonline.com | Matt Mackenzie

The FDA has announced an “aggressive timeline to scale use of artificial intelligence (AI) internally across all FDA centers by June 30, 2025, following the completion of a new generative AI pilot for scientific reviewers.” FDA commissioner Martin Makary said that the implementation of the AI-generated scientific review pilot will “reduce the amount of non-productive busywork that has historically consumed much of the review process.” Makary “directed all FDA centers to begin deployment...
FDA and NIH Announce Joint Initiative to Examine Chronic Disease Crisis

4 days ago | hpnonline.com | Matt Mackenzie

The FDA and NIH have announced a “joint innovative research initiative” that will aim to “end the diet-related chronic disease crisis.” The so-called “Nutrition Regulatory Science Program” will “implement and accelerate a comprehensive nutrition research agenda that will provide critical information to inform effective food and nutrition policy actions to help make Americans’ food and diets healthier.” Questions it will seek to answer include “How and why can ultra-processed foods harm...
Newly Published Study Quantifies Types of Grants Terminated by NIH Since Late February

1 week ago | hpnonline.com | Matt Mackenzie

A new research letter in JAMA “quantified the number and corresponding funding amounts of terminated NIH grants overall and by institute or center and award type” between February 28 and April 8, 2025.
Incidence of Many Cancer Types Increasing in People Under 50

1 week ago | hpnonline.com | Matt Mackenzie

A comprehensive analysis of cancer statistics for different age groups in the U.S. undertaken by NIH researchers found that “from 2010 through 2019, the incidence of 14 cancer types increased among people under age 50.
AHA Inks Letter On Pharma Imports

1 week ago | hpnonline.com | Janette Wider

On May 6, the American Hospital Association (AHA) sent a letter to Commerce official Stephen Astle. The letter, signed by AHA Vice President Akin Demehin, expresses concern over the Section 232 investigation into pharmaceutical imports. The AHA is urging the Department of Commerce to maintain tariff exemptions on imported pharmaceuticals and ingredients, warning that new trade restrictions could worsen drug shortages and raise hospital costs.
ECRI Announces New Insights Meant to Show Which Products Hit Hard by Tariffs

1 week ago | hpnonline.com | Matt Mackenzie

ECRI has announced that it has “launched new data insights to provide transparency and decision-support for eligible clients navigating the impacts of tariffs.” The announcement comes in the wake of the U.S. imposing “steep tariffs on medical imports from key manufacturing countries.” The new ECRI Supply Chain Navigator will equip “healthcare leaders to make strategic purchasing decisions to achieve continuity of care in an uncertain market.” Many of the 4,000 health system supply chain teams...
Polling Shows Trust in Federal Health Agencies Shifting Along Partisan Lines

1 week ago | hpnonline.com | Matt Mackenzie

New KFF polling shows that “trust in vaccine information from government health agencies has shifted along partisan lines following health agency leadership changes and major agency restructuring under the Trump administration.” CIDRAP has the news.
AACN's Healthy Work Environment Standards Implementation at Duke University Hospital's CTICU

1 week ago | hpnonline.com | Janette Wider

According to a May 6 press release from AACN, Duke University Hospital’s cardiothoracic intensive care unit (CTICU) significantly improved its work environment and nurse satisfaction over six years by implementing the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses’ (AACN) Healthy Work Environment (HWE) standards.
Joint Commission Terminates 55 Positions

1 week ago | hpnonline.com | Janette Wider

According to a May 6 article from The Chicago Tribune, The Joint Commission eliminated 55 administrative positions in its Oakbrook Terrace central office,This news, according to the article, was confirmed by a spokesperson. The article added, “‘As we at The Joint Commission execute against our Strategic Plan, we have identified the need to improve operational efficiency and invest in skills needed for the future,’ the Commission said in a statement Tuesday.