Supply Chain

The U.S. government will nearly double the amount it pays hospitals and medical centers to process Abbott's COVID-19 diagnostic test, CMS said April 15. 

Public health experts agree that widespread diagnostic testing is the first step toward lifting social distancing orders and adjusting to a new normal post COVID-19. 

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene sent out a memo April 11 warning the city may run out of test swabs used to diagnose COVID-19, The Hill reported. 

The FDA has granted three emergency use authorizations allowing companies to sterilize N95 masks to be reused by hospital workers. 

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.

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…

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.