Healthcare IT News November 13, 2020
As COVID-19 surges and supply lines become critical, health system leaders are working toward real-time visibility and predictive tools for inventory, pricing, lead times and demand trends.
With the next wave of the COVID-19 pandemic beginning to crash down in hospitals around the country, it’s more important than ever for health systems to be well attuned to their supply chain needs.
One of the biggest challenges of the first wave this past spring, of course, was the shortage of personal protective equipment, ventilators and sometimes critical medications. Supply chain vulnerabilities were acute – and that’s not counting the ongoing cyberattacks targeted at health system supply lines.
Some of these challenges have been ironed out over the past eight months. But...