Healthcare Hodgepodge

Healthcare Hodgepodge

Healthcare Hodgepodge with Healthcare Purchasing News features interviews and article reads. The podcast features topics from the publication’s many verticals including supply chain, infection prevention, sterile processing, surgical/critical care, healthcare IT, EVS, and more.

Episodes

July 30, 2025 17 mins

Associate Editor Matt MacKenzie reads an article on HPN's 2025 Supply Chain Department of the Year: Stanford Medicine.

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Associate Editor Matt MacKenzie reads an article on advancements in environmental services from our July edition. 

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Associate Editor Matt MacKenzie reads an article on sterile processing compliance and standards from our June edition. 

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Associate Editor Matt MacKenzie reads an article on innovations in PPE from our June 2025 edition.

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Christopher Salkowitz, Director of Sales, RST Automation LLC, joins Editor-in-Chief Janette Wider on this week's episode to debunk common myths about artificial intelligence in healthcare.

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Associate Editor Matt MacKenzie reads an article on infection prevention from our June 2025 edition. 

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May 28, 2025 15 mins

Jeff Wertz, President of Surgio Health, joins our Editor-in-Chief Janette Wider to discuss data and analytics as it relates to our verticals, particularly sterile processing. 

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Angela Carranza, CST, Lean Certified, Manager of Clinical Resources, Medline, joins HPN's Editor-in-Chief Janette Wider to discuss safe and efficient instrument hand-offs on this very special episode. 

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Blaine Douglas, Vizient senior vice president and general manager, indirect spend and purchased services joins Healthcare Purchasing News' Editor-in-Chief on this week's episode that focuses on purchased services.

Cost efficiencies in healthcare are more important than ever, including purchased services.  From laundry and landscaping to diagnostic imaging and workforce solutions, procurement strategies for healthcare organizations ...

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Grant Siders, CEO of Helia Care, joins Janette Wider on this week's episode to discuss the ins and outs of bill-only purchasing. Bill-only purchasing in healthcare represents 50% or more of a hospital’s supply chain expenditures. Yet provider POs are not aligned with supplier contracts when the transaction takes place. This results in massive economic waste and a process of reconciliation that is very time consuming and frustrating...

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Associate editor Matt MacKenzie reads an article from HPN's April edition on the staffing shortage in healthcare.

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Lars Thording, Senior Vice President, Marketing & Public Affairs, Innovative Health is back for another episode with HPN's Editor-in-Chief, Janette Wider.

Every year at healthcare tradeshows, medical device manufacturers are pushing out new technologies that are always more expensive than the ones they replace. Healthcare purchasing professionals need to balance their doctors’ desires to adopt new technologies with paper-thin ...

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Yasmine Mustafa, CEO of ROAR and Janette Wider, Editor-in-Chief of Healthcare Purchasing News examine the increasing concern of violence in healthcare settings and how technology can offer solutions. 

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Associate Editor Matt MacKenzie reads our annual sterile processing department of the year article. This year, UF Health Shands showed a multi-faceted, data-driven approach to sterile processing transformation and optimization. 

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Associate Editor Matt MacKenzie reads an article on automation and artificial intelligence in healthcare supply chain from Healthcare Purchasing News' March 2025 edition. 

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Brad Clark, Vice President of Business Development at Henry Schein joins Editor-in-Chief Janette Wider on this episode that covers the importance of IDNs working with their distributor to navigate the complexities of the supply chain.

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Allen Ehrlich is the Vice President, Healthcare and Strategic Accounts at SW Sustainability Solutions. Allen is a Medical Device Executive with over 30 years of commercial experience in medical and diagnostic device product management and development, marketing, sales, operations, and distribution. On this episode, Allen and Editor-in-Chief Janette Wider discuss sustainability initiatives. 

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Ethan Weinberg is Cato's VP, Supply Chain Innovation. Ethan steers supply chain innovation, overseeing procurement and distribution strategies that enhance operational efficiency and service excellence. Since joining KOACORE (Cato's founding organization) at its inception, Ethan has sourced and delivered over 90 million units of medical and safety products, encompassing 1000+ SKUs for a broad range of industries and end-users. On t...

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Shaun Holt is CEO of Alveo Technologies. Holt joins Janette Wider, Editor-in-Chief, Healthcare Purchasing News on this episode to discuss three critical steps to stop HPAI in its tracks.

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Associate Editor Matt MacKenzie reads an article from HPN's February edition on pediatric supply chain challenges. 

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