Supply Chain

For about a year, Cleveland Clinic has built and tested an AI-powered chatbot that generates answers on supply orders. Over the next three months, the technology will be launched to the system's 7,000-some employees who regularly place orders. 

Healthcare organizations have faced unprecedented pressures in the last decade. Shifting consumer preferences, changing reimbursement models and supply chain disruptions have all become the norm. In addition, health system leaders routinely struggle with escalating costs, as well as eroding margins.

Becton Dickinson has promoted Rian Seger, vice president of medication delivery solutions, to be president of the company's surgery business unit. 

Parkview Health has achieved what many have long believed impossible: integrating pharmaceuticals into its broader healthcare product supply chain processes to gain complete transparency into all supply purchases and inventory. Watch this 7-minute video to learn how Parkview Health is…

Cardinal Health revised its product correction for more than 27 million syringes on Feb 2, and the FDA upgraded the notice to a Class I recall — the most serious type.

The largest health system in Maryland is constructing a logistics operations center to centralize its medical supply storage, The Baltimore Banner reported March 8. 

An affiliate of PruittHealth, a post-acute services system, acquired medical supply company Allied Health Resources on March 6. 

Medtronic Neurosurgery is recalling 45,176 drainage systems because catheters might disconnect from patient line stopcock connectors. There have been 26 reported injuries, the FDA said March 7. 

Smiths Medical has warned customers of more than 135,000 Medfusion syringe pumps about problems associated with earlier software versions. 

More than four dozen health systems have pledged to adopt the Healthcare Industry Resilience Collaborative's resiliency badge, which seeks to improve trust between medical suppliers and providers.