Deborah Kaplan

The last decade of immunotherapy progress was based on decades of prior research, including other forms of immunotherapy.
Until recent years, cancer treatment revolved around surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. But the FDA approval of ipilimumab (Yervoy) in 2011 led to a fourth leg of that treatment stool: immunotherapy. This enabled new treatment paradigms, sometimes with shocking levels of success.

As the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s (CMS) value-based programs evolve and reimbursements are at stake, hospital systems are increasingly focused on driving down readmission rates using a comprehensive approach. Not only can preventing readmissions help health systems avoid penalties, it’s also a key factor in care quality and patient outcomes.
The priority of avoiding readmissions isn’t new for health systems, but as private payors follow CMS’ lead and threaten penalties, it’s taking o...

Building a system-wide approach to supply chain operations requires data, technology, and good vendor relationships.

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers were exhausted and depleted—but they were also hailed as heroes. Community members clapped and cheered them on at shift changes. They put up yard signs with appreciation messages and sent meals to hospitals to express gratitude.
Two years later, despite the advent of groundbreaking vaccines, the pandemic continued. Vaccine hesitancy and the emergence of COVID variants again sent case numbers and hospitalizations skyrocketing. Heal...

Smaller companies may not yet face the same regulatory requirements for reporting emissions as their larger counterparts, but, like everyone facing more extreme weather and other impacts brought on by climate change, they have a vested interested in reducing their carbon footprint.
Whether driven by their own concerns, those of customers and employees, or government regulations — in 2019, the U.K. became the first major economy to require businesses to reach net zero by 2050 — every business ...

Digital workflows provide the foundation for supply chain resilience, but they must be part of a larger strategy
Blockchain technology can streamline tracking of perishable goods and eliminate waste
Data from RFID tags and bills of lading can be used to improve shipping efficiency and prioritization
The pandemic’s disruption of the global supply chain cost U.S. companies $228 million in 2021, and adding in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, supply chain turbulence appears to be sticking around for...

When Carri Chan wanted to stock up on at-home COVID-19 tests last summer, she went from one New York City pharmacy to the next. If she was lucky, they had one box.
She would buy it and go to the next pharmacy in search of more. Chan then ordered 12 sets, the maximum allowed on Amazon, in anticipation of the start of in-person school. She waited six to eight weeks for their arrival.
Just as stores are discounting the once scarce bottles of hand sanitizer, many people have more than enough rapid tests filling up their drawers.

GE Healthcare’s iodine-recycling program is expanding throughout Europe and the Americas.
When Northumberland Hills Hospital in Ontario, Canada, started collecting unused iodine-based contrast media to recycle, the staff had no idea iodine recycling was even possible. “We’re always looking for initiatives to make ourselves greener,” says Ian Moffat, Northumberland’s director of diagnostic imaging and laboratory services, and this turned out to be an easy addition to their sustainability progr...

A rising tide lifts all boats. Chief Supply Chain Officer Charles Miceli believes in networking and long-term relationships with all healthcare industry stakeholders.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Analytics tools provide surveillance and early warning to help prepare for shortages.
Vendor financial health is part of supply chain health.
Cost used to be the top supply chain driver. Now it's resiliency.
With the rise in automation, there's more time to focus on personal relationships.
The supply chain word tha...

The evolving landscape for treating patients with multiple myeloma has seen significant improvement for patients, giving them better options. One of the key regimens added to this landscape is the use of a new quadruplet regimen.
Treating patients with multiple myeloma has undergone significant changes in how clinicians can sequence treatment for patients in a more personalized manner. In particular, new combination therapies have opened a promising pathway to managing the disease over time.
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Dionne Gumbs always had a keen understanding and fascination with how the financial world works. She and her family emigrated to Brooklyn from Guyana when she was five, her mother working in banking and her dad an economist for the state of New York. "The language of money was always in my home," she says.
So in 2009, as Gumbs was working at JP Morgan managing large corporate clients, and the U.S. was climbing out of the Great Recession, she paid close attention to the rationale behind which ...

The disruptions of the past two years taught companies how to future-proof their needs.
Labor shortages, supply scarcities and transportation delays all caught companies off guard as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe. But over the past two years, the crisis also forced companies to rethink how they approached the supply chain – and in the long run, that might be a very good thing for business.

The Dallas-Fort Worth area health system used the pandemic to increase supply chain transparency and add technologies to increase diversity in its vendor pool.