Supply Chain

HHS and the U.S. Defense Department have given $119 million to Hologic to boost COVID-19 diagnostic test production in Wisconsin, Maine and California. 

Medtronic has recalled its Rashkind balloon catheter after reports of a patient death and two patient injuries, the FDA announced Nov. 3. 

The CDC says it is looking to create a centralized, cloud-based platform for COVID-19 testing sites to use to report results to public health departments to make the process easier. 

Abbott has sued a former executive, claiming he resigned to join a rival diagnostics company and took trade secrets with him, STAT reported. 

The FDA alerted labs Nov. 3  of the possibility of false positives with COVID-19 antigen tests. 

A rapid test made by Quidel could only detect 32 percent of positive COVID-19 cases that were identified by a slower, lab-based test, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Arizona, The New York Times reported. 

Nursing homes and small providers are still struggling to obtain enough personal protective equipment to protect workers against COVID-19, according to an investigation by Kaiser Health News. 

HHS is "woefully" behind in stocking gloves for the strategic national stockpile, and the stockpile is dangerously low on gloves needed to protect healthcare workers from contracting COVID-19, Mary Denigan-Macauley, the Government Accountability Office’s director of healthcare, told NBC News.

Health systems across America are working toward total transportation management, where all freight spend is managed via a single, centralized system and data analytics drive new efficiencies and cost savings.

The COVID-19 crisis will have long-term effects on the healthcare delivery system. Many interim solutions ultimately may become part of the new normal for hospital business models.