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Health Care Supply Chain Strategies
Increased supply chain challenges and mergers and acquisitions require sound strategy to capitalize on opportunities. Here’s how to do it.
RFID Solutions Attract Attention for Medication Inventory Management
More organizations are giving radio frequency identification (RFID) systems a second look to aid in medication management accuracy, safety and efficiency.
Streamlining Health Care Supply Chain Operations as Systems Grow
The AHA Center for Health Innovation’s new Trailblazers report, “Streamlining Supply Chain Practices as Health Systems Expand,” explores ways that hospitals and health systems are responding successfully to today’s challenges.
How to Optimize Sustainability Performance
A new AHA Leadership Scan episode will explore how some hospitals and health systems have developed more resilient and proactive approaches to identifying, vetting and purchasing sustainable products.
High-Performing Supply Chain Leaders to Share Insights on Improving Resiliency
High-performing supply chains are developing new practices to ensure supply resiliency across all care delivery.
Returning to Normalcy Is Anything but for the Health Care Supply Chain
From medical devices to personal protective equipment to essential drugs, scores of items are in short supply. The list of reasons for supply chain disruption are as varied as the product shortages themselves — raw materials shortages, recent COVID-19 outbreaks in China, low margins on some drugs, leading manufacturers to stop or reduce production to focus on newer, more profitable pharmaceuticals.
3 Ways 3D Printing Is Revolutionizing Health Care
Many hospitals have centralized 3D facilities for point-of-care manufacturing. The FDA has approved hundreds of medical products made with 3D technology. Three areas impacted are implants and prosthetics, anatomical models, and medical equipment.
Hospital-Led Innovation Efforts Produce Results
Navv Systems Inc., born out of Henry Ford Health System, will use the injection of a $3.2 million venture capital seed round to bolster its pipeline of health care systems focused on better tracking of equipment and personnel, as well as helping patients and visitors better navigate complex facilities.
4 Crisis Management Steps to Reduce Supply Disruption
After studying how supply chains broke down during the pandemic’s early days and talking with affected health care executives, physicians, engineers and others, Hannah recently outlined in Harvard Business Review steps health care organizations can take to create a more resilient PPE supply infrastructure.
Intermountain Sells GPO as It Sharpens Focus
Intermountain Healthcare has agreed to sell its Intalere group purchasing organization (formerly Amerinet) to Vizient, a GPO that also provides data analytics and performance-improvement insights to health systems.