Alpharetta, Ga.-based Surgical Information Systems Chief Nursing Officer Ann Geier, RN, shared tips for ASCs to improve inventory management practices on the company's blog.

The first step to improving your supply chain management involves building a team of ASC leaders, material managers, physicians and perioperative clinical staff.

Three supply chain leaders shared these insights with Becker's ASC Review:

The HealthCare Appraisers' 2019 ASC valuation survey provides insight on payers, ASC value and supply chain.

Price transparency is a hot topic on the provider side, but it should also be touched on for supply chain, according to Prashanth Bala, director of ambulatory surgical centers for Shields Health Care Group.

Raleigh (N.C.) Skin Surgery Center is suffering from a shortage of injectable lidocaine with epinephrine, which is in short supply despite being manufactured just 47 miles away, local news affiliate CBS17.com reports.

Cheryl Poplaski, Vizient's senior director of supply chain operations, outlined what ASCs can do to prepare for supply chain disruptions.

Ann Castro, BroadJump's vice president of non-acute sales, weighed in on the top supply chain opportunities and challenges for ASCs.

Xealth, a digital prescribing program, secured an additional $3 million in funding from Cleveland Clinic, Atrium Health and the MemorialCare Innovation Fund, among others.

ASCs can pressure vendors to be more price-transparent, according to Ann Castro, vice president of non-acute sales for supply chain analytics company BroadJump.

EyecareLive updated its telemedicine platform by releasing EyecareLive 2.0, which provides several new features.

Cognitive supply chain company Pensiamo partnered with healthcare improvement company Premier Inc. to launch CognitiveRx, a supply chain solution that predicts and manages drug shortages.

Civica Rx, a nonprofit generic drug company, and healthcare improvement company Vizient are partnering to address drug shortages.

Not all group purchasing organizations are the same, according to Alpharetta, Ga.-based Surgical Information Systems Chief Nursing Officer Ann Geier, RN.

Jeff Berman, principal of consulting company Grant Thornton's operations transformation, shared trends he sees in the healthcare supply chain with Becker's ASC Review.

Jacob Hookom, of medical supply chain company McKesson, shared insights on how ASCs can improve their supply chain operations.

Amazon has the potential to become a player in the ASC supply chain market, according to Neil Olderman, partner at law firm Drinker Biddle & Reath, and president of Drinker Biddle & Reath's consulting firm, Innovative Health Strategies.

Technology can help ASCs organize and track their supply inventory, according to supply chain operations company Hybrent.

Specialty biopharmaceutical company EyePoint Pharmaceuticals has selected Scott Jones as chief commercial officer and Said Saim, PhD, as chief technology officer.

Keeping an eye on performance metrics can help increase supply chain efficiency for ASCs, said Molly Ehrlich, healthcare performance improvement company Vizient's consulting director of advisory solutions for supply chain operations.