Supply Chain

The price of masks, gloves and other supplies has risen by more than 1,000 percent in some cases due to market forces and price-gouging, according to a report published by the Society for Healthcare Organization Procurement Professionals. 

New export restrictions put in place by China have left face masks, test kits and other critical medical equipment intended to be shipped to the U.S. stuck in China, The Wall Street Journal reported. 

Abbott Laboratories' rapid COVID-19 tests can produce false negatives in patients who are infected, STAT reported. 

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new type of swab to use for COVID-19 testing in response to a critical shortage of cotton swabs, which has been one of the biggest obstacles in expanding COVID-19 testing in the…

In a recent press release, North American Partners in Anesthesia (NAPA), one of the leading single-specialty anesthesia and perioperative management companies in the U.S., and Air Methods, the leading air medical service company, announced they have partnered to provide 34 portable,…

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

A group of private and nonprofit organizations including Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente, Microsoft and the American Hospital Association are launching an app called Protecting People Everywhere that will provide personal protective equipment to hospitals in need. 

Abbott Laboratories is launching a COVID-19 antibody test and will ship nearly 1 million tests this week, the company said April 15. 

Quest Diagnostics, the commercial lab that has performed about 800,000 COVID-19 tests, is furloughing more than 4,000 employees, which is about 9 percent of its workforce, CBS News reports.

The American Medical Association is urging the Federal Emergency Management Agency to establish a national distribution system for personal protective equipment to ease the burden on hospitals and states.