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Cook Medical, Vizient ink contract for endoscopy devices

April 3, 2023 By Sean Whooley

Cook Medical announced today that it received a contract with Vizient covering the company’s endoscopy devices. The contract enables Cook to continue offering its endoscopy devices at negotiated pricing terms to Vizient members. Get the full story at our sister site, Medical Tubing & Extrusion.

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Endoscopic Tagged With: Cook Medical, vizient

Smith+Nephew LEAF patient monitor wins innovative tech nod

January 30, 2023 By Sean Whooley

Smith+Nephew (NYSE:SNN) announced today that its LEAF patient monitoring system received an Innovative Technology designation from Vizient. Vizient awards Innovative Technology designations to previously contracted products. The award signals to healthcare providers the impact of these innovations. London-based Smith+Nephew exhibited the LEAF system at the Vizient Innovative Technology Exchange last year. Smith+Nephew’s LEAF offers visual […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Health Technology, Patient Monitoring Tagged With: Smith+Nephew, vizient

Medtronic inks deal to add Hugo-compatible, AI-based surgical system to Vizient’s offerings

March 9, 2022 By Sean Whooley

Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) announced today that it entered into a contract that adds its Touch Surgery Enterprise platform to Vizient’s offerings. The medtech giant’s artificial intelligence (AI)-powered surgical video management and analytics platform for the operating room (OR) offers surgeons a performance-improving tool as well as a method to train others. It will be added to […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Health Technology, Imaging, News Well, Software / IT, Surgical, Surgical Robotics Tagged With: Medtronic, vizient

Depleted hospital capital accounts are requiring medtechs to be `flexible’

November 18, 2020 By Tom Salemi

  As hospitals brace for another surge in COVID-19, medical device companies have to worry about more than temporary reductions in elective surgeries. Hospitals struggling to account for every dollar are beginning to push for new ways to select and pay for new medical technology, particularly large capital items like robotic surgery systems, according to […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health Technology, Surgical, Surgical Robotics Tagged With: Globus Medical, Stryker, Truist Securities, vizient, Zimmer Biomet, Zimmer-Biomet

How has COVID-19 changed healthcare’s appetite for buying medical devices

November 13, 2020 By Tom Salemi

This week’s DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast examines medtech’s readiness for the next COVID-19 surge. Hospitals are ready, but their appetite for expensive medical devices has changed, forcing medtech companies to change how they sell or lose out entirely. Justin Cassidy and Henry Soch of Vizient reveal why hospital executives are forced to divert funds away from […]

Filed Under: Device Talks Podcasts, Featured, Hospital Care, Imaging, Orthopedics, Surgical Robotics Tagged With: Abbott Laboratories, Delve, Explorer Surgical, Globus, Stryker, vizient, Zimmer Biomet

DTW Podcast: Vizient on PPE, Vicarious on VR-aided robotics and let’s all hope for pumpernickel

August 14, 2020 By Tom Salemi

This week’s episode of DeviceTalks Weekly is brought to you by the later V, as in Vizient and Vicarious Surgical. Bharat Sundaram, COO and president of Vizient, will share how the healthcare supplier is strengthening the supply of PPE for hospitals. He’ll also reveal when the company expects to see US hospitals running at pre-COVID […]

Filed Under: Device Talks Podcasts, Featured, Hospital Care, Surgical Robotics Tagged With: C.R. Bard, CooperVision, Medtronic, Neurolief, Theranos, Vicarious Surgical, vizient

Vizient signs contract to make 40 million PPE gowns

August 10, 2020 By Sean Whooley

Vizient announced today that it entered into an agreement with Encompass Group for its Novaplus Enhanced Supply program for personal protective equipment. Irving, Texas-based Vizient said in a news release that the agreement will increase the supply of PPE and enable access to 40 million AAMI level three disposable isolation gowns annually for its member […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Contract Manufacturing, Hospital Care Tagged With: vizient

Vizient to distribute WishBone Medical’s pediatric ortho implants

July 27, 2020 By Sean Whooley

WishBone Medical announced today that it entered into a national agreement with Vizient to provide orthopedic implants to pediatric patients. Warsaw, Ind.-based WishBone said in a news release that Vizient’s membership base includes more than 50% of the nation’s acute care providers, allowing WishBone’s “Just-In-Time” supply of single-use sterile kits for children with orthopedic issues […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Contract Manufacturing, Hospital Care, Implants, Orthopedics, Pediatrics Tagged With: vizient, wishbonemedical

Hospitals sue BD, distributors, GPOs over alleged safety syringe monopoly

May 7, 2018 By Brad Perriello

A group of healthcare providers levied a purported class action against BD, its distributors and group purchasing organizations accusing them of running a monopoly on the U.S. safety syringe market. The lawsuit, brought in the U.S. District Court for Southern Illinois, was filed on behalf of “healthcare providers nationwide” by a group of providers “who […]

Filed Under: Hospital Care, Legal News, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Anti-Trust, becton dickinson, Cardinal Health, Henry Schein Inc., Owens and Minor, Premier Inc., vizient

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