Medical Product Outsourcing

With Trump’s Space Force Idea Gaining Steam, Could a U.S. Health Force Be Far Behind?

Over the summer, the Trump administration expressed its desire to form a U.S. Space Force—a new military branch that would be different from the unit (Air Force Space Command) already tasked with overseeing much of America’s defense asset…

Chris Oleksy, Emergent Respiratory 10.16.18

Care Chain Consolidation: Tail Wagging the Dog?

For the past 35 years or so, supply chain consolidation has become an integral part of the medtech industry. Far less common but increasing in frequency is the desire by non-healthcare entities like Amazon, Apple, CVS, Google, and most recently, Walm…

Chris Oleksy, Founder and CEO, Oleksy Enterprises and Next Life Medical; CEO, Emergent Respiratory 05.03.18

The Big Squeeze Is On: An Examination of the Health Insurance Impact

As 2018 begins, there is unprecedented angst among the general population about individual healthcare coverage. MPO readers and I share this angst, though we are probably more likely than most to voice our concerns because of the nature of our jobs&m…

Chris Oleksy, Founder and CEO, Oleksy Enterprises and Next Life Medical; CEO, Emergent Respiratory 01.30.18

Left Side...Strong Side: Teachable Moments of 2017

It’s been a fascinating year for healthcare-related supply/value/care chains. To mark its passage, I’ve pulled together several column topics from the past 11 months and applied them to a prediction I made at the recent MPO Summit 2017 (I…

Chris Oleksy, Founder and CEO, Oleksy Enterprises and Next Life Medical; CEO, Emergent Respiratory 11.07.17

Contract Manufacturing

Reflections on 2016

This year has been fascinating, to say the least. The outcome of the presidential race will have a lasting impact on not only the United States, but also the entire world. Most agree that it’s both shocking and sad that the election was more ab…

Chris Oleksy, Founder and CEO, Oleksy Enterprises, Co-Founder, Next Life Medical 11.08.16

Next Life Medical Acquires Emergent Respiratory

Company’s flagship product line is the Porto2Vent Emergency CPAP.

Next Life Medical 08.15.16

Contract Manufacturing | Molding | R&D & Design | Testing

Oleksy Named President of Providien's Integra Biotechnical Division

New hire has more than 30 years of medical device and supply chain experience.

03.13.14

Contract Manufacturing

To Make or Not To Make…Life, Trouble or Death: A Tale of a Company’s Culture

To Make or Not To Make…Life, Trouble or Death: A Tale of a Company’s Culture Chris Oleksy Act 1—Make or Buy? In comparison to Shakespeare’s infamous line from Hamlet, “To Be or Not To Be,” many peopl…

Chris Oleksy 10.21.06

Contract Manufacturing | Materials

Outsource Partnership “Touch Points”

Outsource Partnership “Touch Points” By Chris Oleksy Chris Oleksy If you were to look at Merriam Webster’s on-line dictionary, you would find that the word partner means “one that shares.&rdquo…

Chris Oleksy 06.12.06

Contract Manufacturing

Plan(t)ing Your Supply Chain Harvest

Plan(t)ing Your Supply Chain Harvest By Chris Oleksy The inaugural column set the stage for this supply chain series with a discussion of SCOR, the Supply Chain Operations Reference model. That article described the five business processes SCOR…

Chris Oleksy 02.27.06