Supply Chain
Long wait times, crowded waiting rooms, and frustrated staff are often symptoms of inefficient workflows driven by physical space constraints.…
To achieve a mature supply chain that not only reacts to crises such as COVID-19 but proactively prepares for them, health systems should prioritize data transparency and traceability.
Cardinal Health
Citing restrictions related to the pandemic, the FDA will perform less than half of the non-food domestic surveillance inspections it had planned for fiscal year 2021, the agency said May 5.
The American Red Cross is worried it may face a significant blood shortage heading into summer, Tucson, Ariz.-based ABC affiliate KGUN-TV reported May 6.
Eight states and multiple local health departments and officials say vaccine kits from the federal government contain an insufficient number of low-dead-space syringes, which help extract every last COVID-19 vaccine dose from vials, reports The Wall Street Journal.
The world needs to reassess its current COVID-19 vaccination strategy to accelerate manufacturing and more equitably distribute vaccine supplies globally, two experts wrote in an article published May 6 in Harvard Business Review.
A division of the CDC said May 4 it has revoked the emergency use authorization for Plastikon Industries' N95 mask.
Front-line healthcare workers in Minnesota are seeing availability for N95 masks increase, according to a May 2 report published in the Star Tribune.
Medline said a three-year campaign that included a $1.5 billion investment in distribution centers and manufacturing capabilities has added hundreds of new jobs and expanded the medical supply maker's footprint.
Although useful healthcare knowledge exists in current data, it is often difficult to retrieve.
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The FDA has revoked emergency use authorization for a system made by Battelle Memorial Institute to decontaminate N95 masks.