Supply Chain
Long wait times, crowded waiting rooms, and frustrated staff are often symptoms of inefficient workflows driven by physical space constraints.…
When you distribute products just in time (JIT) based on the most logical (low) unit-of-measure possible, you can take a proactive approach to reducing costs and waste caused by expiring products.
Cardinal Health
As more and more patients seek care in lower-cost outpatient settings, health systems are working to meet the demands of this migration by expanding nonacute offerings. This expansion requires the acquisition or development of new care locations, which will transform…
In collaboration with McKesson
More than 90 percent of the 1 million COVID-19 diagnostic tests Abbott has delivered to labs across the U.S. aren't being used because labs don't have the resources to process the tests, MedTech Dive reported.
Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals are facing severe shortages of personal protective equipment and are being forced to ration face masks, hospital workers told The Wall Street Journal.
The government will start seizing exports of personal protective equipment at its borders to decide whether it should be kept in the U.S. to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic, The Hill reported.
Philips will build 43,000 ventilators for the Strategic National Stockpile under a $646.7 million contract with HHS, the agency said April 8.
Ten hospitals and health systems posted job listings for supply chain expertise in the last week:
The strategic national stockpile of personal protective equipment has been depleted, and states won't be receiving any more shipments, The Hill reported.
Ventilators have made national headlines as the U.S. grapples with a shortage of the medical device used to give breathing support to the most severely ill COVID-19 patients.
Medline has resumed sterilizing medical supplies at its plant in Waukegan, Ill., about two months after it originally predicted, a company spokesperson told Becker's Hospital Review.