Supply Chain

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

The National Institutes of Health said Sept. 2 that it is giving $129.3 million to nine companies to scale up manufacturing of COVID-19 tests. 

HHS will begin distributing Abbott's 15-minute COVID-19 test to states in mid-September and will let states decide how to use them, The Hill reported. 

HHS is terminating contracts with ventilator makers as it says the national stockpile is now full, The Hill reported. 

Unforeseen circumstances in the healthcare system can place immediate stress on hospital supply chains and threaten the integrity of day-to-day operations. In a global pandemic, operations must shift their priorities to provide the most necessary supplies to clinicians and patients…

Amazon said Aug. 31 it has received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to operate its Prime Air delivery drones, CNBC reported. 

A day after Abbott received emergency FDA approval of its 15-minute COVID-19 test, HHS has awarded it a $760 million contract to produce 150 million tests, the department said this week. 

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

The University of Virginia Health System has designed a nasopharyngeal swab and will distribute 60,000 of them across the state per week to support COVID-19 testing, the Charlottesville-based health system said this week.

The number of medical device recalls has increased 31.2 percent in the second quarter of 2020, according to Stericycle's Q2 recall index.