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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The Realities of Offsite Reprocessing

5 days ago | hpnonline.com | Kara Nadeau

When HPN asked sterile processing (SP) professionals what topics they wanted covered in 2025, one request stood out: A deeper look into offsite reprocessing—not just the concept, but the real-world complexities of making it happen.
AMA Releases Statement Against Ruling Limiting Gender Affirming Care for Minors

1 week ago | hpnonline.com | Matt Mackenzie

The American Medical Association has released a statement on the United States v. Skrmetti Supreme Court case. News came this Wednesday that the Supreme Court ruled to uphold a Tennessee law that “bars doctors from providing gender-affirming care including puberty blockers, hormones, and surgical procedures for trans minors in the state,” according to Time.
FDA Approves Gilead's Twice-Yearly PrEP Medication

1 week ago | hpnonline.com | Matt Mackenzie

The FDA has approved Gilead’s Yeztugo medication as “pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to reduce the risk of sexually acquired HIV in adults and adolescents.”This approval makes Yeztugo “the first and only twice-yearly option available in the U.S. for people who need or want PrEP.” Over 99.9% of participants who received the drug in trials remained HIV negative. The first PrEP medication was approved in the U.S. in 2012.
Sen. Bernie Sanders Calls for Bipartisan Investigation into Mass Dismissal of CDC Vaccine Experts

1 week ago | hpnonline.com | Janette Wider

According to a June 16 news release, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, is calling for a bipartisan investigation into Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s mass dismissal of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) at the CDC. In a letter to HELP Committee Chairman Sen.
Carilion Clinic in Virginia Reduces HAIs by Increasing Size of IPC Team

1 week ago | hpnonline.com | Matt Mackenzie

Findings from Virginia’s Carilion Clinic health system will be delivered at APIC today regarding the increase in size of their IPC team and the subsequent drop in various infection rates. Carilion Clinic had only eleven infection preventionists (IPs) “for its eight-hospital system of more than 1,000 licensed beds” in August 2020. By 2023, “Carilion more than doubled its IP staff from 11 to 24 full-timers,” with a marked decrease in various healthcare-associated infections (HAI) following.
Leading CDC Scientist Abruptly Resigns in Wake of Reconstitution of ACIP

1 week ago | hpnonline.com | Matt Mackenzie

A CDC scientist leading the team that tracks respiratory infections “abruptly resigned yesterday, based on concerns that the data won’t be used objectively or with scientific rigor following recent changes to the CDC’s vaccine advisory group.” CIDRAP has the news.
New Study Finds Early Exposure to Antibiotics in Infants Leads to Higher Risk of Infections in Childhood

1 week ago | hpnonline.com | Matt Mackenzie

A new study of over 20,000 children found that “those who had early exposure to antibiotics had higher risk of infections and antibiotic use later in childhood.” CIDRAP has the news. The study found that “children with early antibiotic exposure had a significantly higher risk of several types of infections and antibiotic use compared with those who had no early exposure, with the highest risk observed in children who received antibiotics during the first week of life.
IPC Team at Chicago Hospital Prevented Measles Outbreak While Treating Patients

1 week ago | hpnonline.com | Matt Mackenzie

Research that will be presented at the APIC conference in Phoenix today shows that the infection prevention and control (IPC) team at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital prevented a measles outbreak among its patients and staff. The IPC team learned of a positive measles case in a migrant shelter in Chicago, where the hospital in question is. They then “quickly established strategies to protect patients, visitors, and staff.
Research Suggests Non-English Speakers More Likely to Acquire HAIs

1 week ago | hpnonline.com | Matt Mackenzie

Data suggesting that health inequities are a factor in higher rates of certain kinds of infections will be presented today at the APIC annual conference in Phoenix. Specifically, Kaiser Permanente will be presenting data showing that a patient whose first language is Spanish has a higher risk of getting an infection in the hospital.
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Post Open Letter Urging Availability of COVID Vaccine to Pregnant People

1 week ago | hpnonline.com | Matt Mackenzie

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has posted an open letter urging payers and insurers to “continue making the COVID-19 vaccine available to pregnant people without undue utilization management or cost-sharing requirements.” The letter emphasizes that all aspects of obstetric and gynecologic care should “be grounded in the best available scientific evidence,” which is even more important given “the historic gaps in research, investment, and support for women’s health.”...