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| 30th Anniversary |
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Trivial pursuits over 30 years H ow much do you know about Healthcare Purchasing News – its history and industry contributions? How well do you know the healthcare supply chain management industry?As HPN celebrates its 30th anniversary, we looked back at some of the key milestones and millstones that shaped the magazine and the growing industry it has covered and chronicled for three decades. In the first of a two-part series we challenge and titillate your minds with 30 trivia questions culled from 30 years of reportage – 15 about HPN and another 15 about the industry in general. We’re convinced that some of these will make you laugh, smile, wince, cringe and raise an eyebrow or two. |
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HEALTHCARE PURCHASING NEWS trivia |
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1. When the magazine you now know as Healthcare Purchasing News debuted in March 1977 what was its original name? Purchasing Administration. It started as a bimonthly trade magazine with the inaugural March/April 1977 edition. 2. Purchasing Administration actually emerged from a predecessor tabloid magazine that launched six years earlier in 1971. What was its name? Hospital World. 3. When did Purchasing Administration change its name? In September 1981, Purchasing Administration became Hospital Purchasing News. 4. At first, HPN primarily reached what professionals? Purchasing/materials managers and central service professionals. 5. In what year did Hospital Purchasing News change its name to Healthcare Purchasing News to reflect materials management’s foray into non-acute care facilities? 1995. 6. HPN shrunk to its current size from the larger tabloid size in what year? 2002. 7. Magazines typically sport "taglines" that further describe the publication’s mission, vision and content. These taglines tend to change. How many different taglines has HPN carried during the last three decades and what were they? Seven. "A Magazine for Hospital Materials Management" (1977-1981), "The Magazine for Purchasing and Central Service Management" (1981-1983), "The Magazine for Materials Management Professionals" (1983-1988), "The Newsmagazine for Materials Management and Central Service" (1988-1994), "Business News and Analysis for Purchasing Decision-Makers" (1995-1998), "The Market’s No. 1 Choice for Business News and Analysis" (1999-2006) and "People, Places, Processes and Products that Influence the Supply Chain" (2007-date). 8. What year did HPN debut a section geared toward operating room directors and business managers and what was that section called? In 1993, HPN unveiled the bimonthly "O.R. Purchasing News" that later went monthly. 9. What year did HPN debut a quarterly section geared toward infection control practitioners? What began as a quarterly "Special Product Impact Section" targeting Infection Control in 1994 eventually became the "Infection Control Impact Section" by decade’s end before the content became a regular monthly feature in the magazine. 10. HPN’s first editor later became its publisher in the early 1990s. Who was it? The late Christopher J. Bale, who suffered a fatal aortic aneurism in 1997 within two years after leaving HPN to launch his own publishing company. 11. In its 30 years to date, how many different editors has HPN had? Officially, seven; technically, six. They are: Christopher J. Bale (1977-1987), Mark Thill (1987-1995), Rick Dana Barlow (1995-1999), John O’Connor (1999), Jim Berklan (1999-2001), Curt Werner (2001-2003), Rick Dana Barlow (2004-present). 12. Which HPN editor was the recipient of IAHCSMM’s Award of Honor? Mark Thill 13. When did he receive it? At the 1996 annual meeting in Burlingame, CA. 14. What other award did he receive when and by whom? The National Healthcare Cost Containment Person of the Year in 1988 by the now-defunct McFaul & Lyons Inc. 15. When HPN underwent a redesign in 1999 it used three different fonts/typefaces in its nameplate and three different colors. What were the colors and why did HPN do this? "Healthcare" was in green, "Purchasing" in black and "News" in
gray. HPN used the different lettering to signify the different primary
reader segments it reached.
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Healthcare supply chain management industry trivia |
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1. Historians generally trace the origin of group purchasing to 1910 and the formation of which organization? The Hospital Bureau of Standards and Supplies of New York 2. Group purchasing planted its early roots in two major cities in the second and third decades of the 1900s, followed by a third major city in the 1930s. Name them. New York (The Hospital Bureau Inc. and Joint Purchasing Corp.), Cleveland (The Cleveland Hospital Council) and Chicago (Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council), respectively 3. What was the name of the buying group launched by the Catholic Hospital Association in St. Louis in the late 1960s? Religious Congregation Cooperative Buyers (RCCB) 4. What was the original name of GPO Health Services Corporation of America (HSCA) and who acquired HSCA? Mid-America Shared Services, and MedAsset, respectively 5. Voluntary Hospitals of America (VHA) made headlines in the late 1970s and generated considerable legal scrutiny in the early 1980s for signing a groundbreaking and lucrative prime vendor contract with which company? American Hospital Supply Co. 6. In the 1980s, a prominent investor-owned hospital chain explored merging with one of two different vendors, paving the way for those two vendors to merge by decade’s end. Who were the three players? HCA, American Hospital Supply Co. and Baxter Travenol Laboratories. American Hospital Supply and Baxter Travenol eventually merged to become Baxter Healthcare Corp. 7. Roughly three years after DRGs debut, President Ronald Reagan signed into law the Omnibus Reconciliation Act, which "legalized" what controversial practice that continues to dog the group purchasing industry today? It provides a safe harbor from antitrust regulations for vendors to give rebates to GPOs. 8. What was the name of Johnson & Johnson’s historic proprietary electronic data interchange technology that faded from view in the 1990s? COACT 9. In February 1981, eight regional purchasing groups dealt a severe blow to one of the longest standing and venerable GPOs in the nation. What happened and to which group? The eight regional purchasing groups planned to terminate their day-to-day management contracts with the Hospital Bureau Inc., but would maintain an "affiliated" relationship. 10. Executives from 30 major hospitals and healthcare systems met in which city to create the Voluntary Hospital Association of America (now called VHA Inc.) in 1977? Chicago 11. Which organization became the nation’s largest investor-owned hospital chain in 1981 for the first time (and hasn’t really relinquished the title yet)? Hospital Corporation of America, which acquired its primary competitor Hospital Affiliates International for nearly $1 billion. 12. In 1987, the Mid-Atlantic Group Network of Shared Services Inc. (MAGNET) decided to make significant change to its operations. What was it? MAGNET chose to expand to a full-service GPO after seven years of dealing solely with capital equipment contracts, which remains its specialty today. 13. Charles Housley, healthcare materials management icon and legend from the 1970s and 1980s, was a forward-thinker and a prolific writer. What was the name of his most famous book? "Hospital Materiel Management" 14. What was considered to be Housley’s most controversial and infamous book that elicited either laughs or scorn when he distributed them during conferences and why? Housley’s book was titled, "New Techniques in Hospital Materials Management in the Last 20 Years." The pages were blank. 15. What piece of legislation in 1982 signaled "the end of materials management as an isolated hospital function?" The Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act and the subsequent
implementation of diagnosis-related group (DRG) reimbursement rates as the
foundation of the new prospective payment system (1983).
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