MIT Technology Review March 9, 2022
Will Douglas Heaven

Global health groups are turning to supply chain software to help patients get better access to treatment and testing.

Running a healthcare system is like juggling bees. Millions of moving pieces—from mobile clinics to testing kits—need to be in the right places at the right time. That’s even harder to do in countries with limited resources and endemic disease.

But getting stuff where it’s needed is a problem big companies deal with all the time. Now global healthcare groups are adopting some of their techniques: a number of the world’s poorer countries have started to use AI-powered supply-chain management tools to help people get better access to testing and treatment.

Healthcare organizations are using the software to help...

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Topics: AI (Artificial Intelligence), Health System / Hospital, Provider, Supply Chain, Technology
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