Supply chain: Navigating supply issues to improve patient safety Patient safety is at the heart of providing quality care, and access to the correct supplies is critical to achieving positive patient outcomes. The healthcare supply chain faces a number of challenges, includin...
Healthcare supply chain practicesSupply chain managementSupply chain performanceBackground: Between 2007 and 2012, Children Without Worms (CWW) oversaw the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) donation of Vermox (mebendazole) for treatment of school-age children to control soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH). To...
process, and technology perspective — also contribute to cost increases and visibility issues. Data integration across disparate ERP, legacy supply chain systems, and external sources, along with interoperability across tools such as RFID barcode readers that feed product data back into these systems, ...
Healthcare is considered one basic necessity to sustaining life; thereby, assessing the character of a healthy and resilient supply chain can help a nation develop ideas to combat the healthcare crisis. COVID-19 has led to a long-term strain on the healthcare supply chain (HCSC) and has re...
[currently] available to anyone in the supply chain is the price,” Socal says. If drug purchasers had a metric related to quality—for example, higher grades for manufacturers that have never had quality issues, and lower grades for plants that have had manufacturing violations—they could ...
Gartner’s 15th annual Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25 ranks leading U.S.-based health system supply chains. Health care CSCOs can use this research to learn about the contenders ranked No. 26 to No. 40 to advance digital initiatives, develop talent strategies and build antifragile capabilities...
Do physicians and administrators often disagree on fundamental issues regarding supply chain decisions? Are you challenged by physician preferences for different supplies for the same procedure? Are you writing off out of date products? Do you use medical supplies, devices, and drugs which are higher...
The driver for this integration is logistics and supply chain management. This paper describes trends, issues and some solutions for logistics management for the healthcare supply chain with concepts drawn from industrial engineering, and operations research disciplines applied to specific domains. A ...
Some healthcare providers can expect labor issues to persist as a challenge, but as unemployment benefits expire, there is evidence of more extensive recruitment in late third and fourth quarters of 2021. Supply chain challenges are another threat to healthcare revenue and ...
Medline announced that it entered into a collaboration with Microsoft to address supply chain challenges faced by healthcare professionals.