Supply Chain
Long wait times, crowded waiting rooms, and frustrated staff are often symptoms of inefficient workflows driven by physical space constraints.…
Six employees of NYC Health + Hospitals published an article in Health Affairs July 16 detailing how the largest municipal health system in the country resolved numerous supply chain challenges during the height of New York's COVID-19 outbreak this spring.
Maia Anderson
Ten hospitals and health systems posted job listings for supply chain expertise in the last week:
Michigan hospitals have enough personal protective equipment to deal with a potential second wave of COVID-19 cases, the Michigan Health and Hospital Association told the Lansing State Journal.
3M and researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have partnered to develop a rapid COVID-19 antigen test designed to function like a pregnancy test, CNBC reported.
Despite an uptick in COVID-19 cases across the country, Sierra Nevada Hospital in Grass Valley, Calif., still has a stable supply of personal protective equipment, The Union reported.
Quest Diagnostics said July 13 that despite efforts to scale up its testing capacity, "soaring demand" for COVID-19 diagnostic and antibody tests has slowed its turnaround time for providing test results to seven or more days for most patients.
Eight organizations representing U.S. testing labs sent a letter to Vice President Mike Pence urging the government to find remedies for supply chain obstacles to performing COVID-19 tests, MedTech Dive reported.
When asked how COVID-19 will affect health systems’ strategic priorities in the coming months and years, Shawn McBride, vice president and general manager of WaveMark™ Supply Management & Workflow Solutions at Cardinal Health, emphasized the importance of streamlining workflows in…
Cardinal Health
Endologix, an Irvine, Calif.-based devicemaker, is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and reorganizing to become a privately held company, MedTech Dive reported.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker told lawmakers in testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee that states have been forced to compete in a "sick Hunger Games"-like competition for medical supplies needed to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, CNBC reported.