HealthLeaders Media August 31, 2022
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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