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Calvin Wright leads the cancer center’s supply chain efforts, which also includes ramping up use of technology and data analysis to better support high reliability care.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– Contracting with local vendors provides local jobs with health insurance, which can decrease uncompensated hospital care.
– Understanding a manufacturer’s location can help with resiliency planning.
– Supply chain departments should consider hiring more staff with data analytics and predictive analytics skills.
Resiliency planning is an exercise all health systems should have done before the COVID-19 pandemic, but it is especially important now. MD Anderson Cancer Center, based in Houston, continues to engage in this process, with scenario planning and involvement in a healthcare industry resilience collaborative that works with suppliers...
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