Supply Chain
New research from Advisory Board, conducted in partnership with Staples Business, reveals how 102 health system supply chain and executive…
COVID-19 testing sites have been closed across the country due to safety concerns with mass protests of police brutality, Politico reported.
The FDA issued another class 1 recall of Medtronic's HeartWare HVAD ventricular assist device after discovering a design issue that has caused four patient deaths, Medtech Dive reported.
From empty grocery store shelves to medical supply shortages, the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed global supply chain inefficiencies.
As outpatient surgery facilities resume surgeries after postponements due to COVID-19,1 contamination concerns may cause anxiety for otherwise healthy patients.
Cardinal Health
Ten hospitals and health systems posted job listings for supply chain expertise in the last week:
A Georgia man was charged May 28 with attempting to sell 50 million N95 masks he didn't actually possess to a foreign government for $317 million.
A shortage of the machines that process COVID-19 tests and give results is slowing efforts to ramp up diagnostic testing, NPR reported.
The COVID-19 pandemic is causing an array of supply chain challenges for hospitals and health systems, such as a backlog of diagnostic testing and shortages of supplies and personal protective equipment.
Novant Health launched the first hospital emergency drone program to help its COVID-19 pandemic response.
The FDA is investigating the lab that AdventHealth cut ties with last week after saying it received thousands of unreliable COVID-19 diagnostic tests, USA Today reported.