Supply Chain

Hospitals in Southern California are facing shortages of both oxygen and the canisters needed to contain it, according to the Los Angeles Times.

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and health systems raced to keep up with fast-changing recommendations for drug and treatment options for patients. Distributors were tasked with delivering drug products to health systems faster than ever before and…

Walgreens and LabCorp have partnered to deliver LabCorp's Pixel COVID-19 test for at-home use. 

With the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA) emergency use authorizations and subsequent recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines are now being distributed in…

Amazon, CVS Health and Thermo Fisher Scientific have come together to form a coalition promoting employer-based COVID-19 testing as part of a national strategy to combat the pandemic. 

The Federal Trade Commission has approved a final order that imposes conditions on Stryker's $4 billion acquisition of competitor Wright Medical Group.

American Medical Depot, a medical products supplier based in Miramar, Fla., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Dec. 11, according to the South Florida Business Journal. 

When it comes to supply chain initiatives in the OR and other procedural areas, a cost savings story alone without an evidence-based approach is unlikely to earn the support of clinicians.

Ten hospitals and health systems posted job listings for supply chain expertise in the last week:

An at-home COVID-19 test that requires no prescription or laboratory could be in U.S. drugstores by February, according to CNBC.