--- title: Weekly News Roundup, 4.11.19 description: Relatable streamlines how hospital and ambulatory surgery center (ASC) purchasing managers source, evaluate and contract medical devices. image: https://blog.relatable.io/hubfs/AdobeStock_158071825.jpeg --- # ![RELATABLE](https://blog.relatable.io/hubfs/Relatable_April2019%20/img/logo.png) - [Home](http://www.relatable.io/) [![RELATABLE](https://blog.relatable.io/hubfs/Relatable_April2019%20/img/logo.png)](https://blog.relatable.io/) - [Home](http://www.relatable.io/) [![RELATABLE](https://blog.relatable.io/hubfs/Relatable_April2019%20/img/logo.png)](https://blog.relatable.io/) - [Home](http://www.relatable.io/) [![RELATABLE icon](https://blog.relatable.io/hubfs/Relatable_April2019%20/img/icon_re_gray_2x.png) RELATABLE](https://blog.relatable.io) — Weekly News Roundup, 4.11.19 Share this 03 May 2019 / [Medical Devices](https://blog.relatable.io/tag/medical-devices) # Weekly News Roundup, 4.11.19 Here is Relatable Healthcare's weekly roundup on news you may have missed: **[The 10 challenges, opportunities healthcare executives expect to face in 2019](https://www.beckersasc.com/leadership-management/the-10-challenges-opportunities-healthcare-executives-expect-to-face-in-2019.html)[Why today's outpatient shift is unprecedented — 3 takeaways](https://www.beckersasc.com/asc-transactions-and-valuation-issues/why-today-s-outpatient-shift-is-unprecedented-3-takeaways.html)** **[Leapfrog Opens Up Survey About Ambulatory Surgery Center Quality](https://www.ajmc.com/focus-of-the-week/leapfrog-opens-up-survey-about-ambulatory-surgery-center-quality)** **[Understanding the Basics of Bundled Payments in Healthcare](http://medicalcodingnews.org/understanding-the-basics-of-bundled-payments-in-healthcare/)** **[The New Rules of Ambulatory Surgery Center Competition: Three steps to build a winning ASC strategy](https://www.advisory.com/-/media/Advisory-com/Research/HCAB/Success-page/HCAB-ASC-Strategy-Excerpt-2019.pdf)** - a white paper by The Advisory Board   ![Relatable](https://blog.relatable.io/hubfs/Logos/Relatable%20Healthcare%20Logo%20(square).jpg) #### [Relatable](https://blog.relatable.io/author/relatable) Read [more posts](https://blog.relatable.io/author/relatable) by this author. [Read More](https://blog.relatable.io/author/relatable) — RELATABLE — ### [Medical Devices](https://blog.relatable.io/tag/medical-devices) - [Why your Medtech Reps can’t have consultative conversions with Supply Chain & what Relatable is doing about it](https://blog.relatable.io/why-your-medtech-reps-cant-have-consultative-conversions-with-supply-chain-what-relatable-is-doing-about-it) - [Creating More Opportunity to Convert Business | A Case Study](https://blog.relatable.io/relatable-more-business-conversion-opportunity) - [The Impact of COVID-19: Primary Procedures Performed During & After Elective Surgery Mandates](https://blog.relatable.io/covid-19-primary-procedures-performed) [See all 24 posts →](https://blog.relatable.io/tag/medical-devices) ## [Medical Devices, Business Intelligence, Software, ASCs, Medtech, Workflow Automation Why your Medtech Reps can’t have consultative conversions with Supply Chain & what Relatable is doing about it **The Issue: it’s a data problem, not a people problem.**](https://blog.relatable.io/why-your-medtech-reps-cant-have-consultative-conversions-with-supply-chain-what-relatable-is-doing-about-it) - Ben Allemann [![Ben Allemann](https://blog.relatable.io/hubfs/Profile%20Pic.jpeg)](https://blog.relatable.io/author/relatable) 1 min read ## [Medical Devices, Software, CaseStudy Creating More Opportunity to Convert Business | A Case Study Challenge: A multinational orthopedics company was in need of a method to.](https://blog.relatable.io/relatable-more-business-conversion-opportunity) - Relatable [![Relatable](https://blog.relatable.io/hubfs/Logos/Relatable%20Healthcare%20Logo%20(square).jpg)](https://blog.relatable.io/author/relatable) 1 min read ### Get the latest updates in your mailbox! [RELATABLE](http://www.relatable.io/) © 2019 [Latest Posts](https://blog.relatable.io)