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

November 19, 2025 19 mins

Associate editor Matt MacKenzie reads an article on collaboration with SPDs from the November / December 2025 edition of HPN.

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Associate editor Matt MacKenzie reads an article on a new advancement in preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia from the November / December 2025 edition of HPN.

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Associate editor Matt MacKenzie reads an article on pharmacy supply chain from the October 2025 edition of HPN.

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Associate editor Matt MacKenzie reads an article on artificial intelligence and infection prevention from the October 2025 edition of HPN.

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September 24, 2025 7 mins

Associate editor Matt MacKenzie reads an article on brush cleaning from the October 2025 edition of HPN.

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Associate editor Matt MacKenzie reads an article on sharps safety from the October 2025 edition of HPN.

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August 27, 2025 16 mins

Associate editor Matt MacKenzie reads an article on evolving education in sterile processing from the September 2025 edition of HPN.

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Associate editor Matt MacKenzie reads an article on antimicrobial resistance from the August 2025 edition of the magazine.

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

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July 16, 2025 12 mins

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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