Supply Chain
Long wait times, crowded waiting rooms, and frustrated staff are often symptoms of inefficient workflows driven by physical space constraints.…
To impact costs around product usage, the supply chain needs support from clinicians. When it comes to product standardization and other supply chain initiatives in procedural areas, a cost savings story without data-driven rationale may not be enough to create…
Cardinal Health
UnitedHealth Group is working with Boston Scientific, Medtronic and the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis to deploy 3,000 emergency ventilators to providers, the organizations said April 23.
Amazon has opened a nonprofit online store for COVID-19 first responders that sells face shields, surgical masks, ventilators and other supplies, the Puget Sound Business Journal reported.
Lab officials say Abbott's rapid COVID-19 test poses a greater risk of infection to those administering it than other types of diagnostic tests, Kaiser Health News reported.
Ten hospitals and health systems posted job listings for supply chain expertise in the last week:
Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente is converting a warehouse in Berkeley, Calif., into a $14 million testing site that will process 70,000 COVID-19 diagnostic tests per week, Berkeleyside reported.
Medtronic released an update on how its business has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and warned investors to expect a significant hit to earnings, MedTech Dive reported.
Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston is running out of inline suction catheters used to treat patients on ventilators, and the shortage is putting providers at risk, STAT reported.
Maryland bought half a million COVID-19 tests from South Korea for $9 million, NPR reported.
New York City-based Northwell Health and University of South Florida Health in Tampa have teamed up to design a 3D-printed swab to be used for COVID-19 testing in an effort to relieve shortages and ramp up testing, CNBC reported.