RevCycle Intelligence July 8, 2020
Providers and suppliers plan to overcome healthcare supply chain obstacles created by COVID-19 by prioritizing US-made goods, gathering more inventory and demand planning data, and relying less on IT.
Providers and suppliers are looking to preserve the healthcare supply chain after the COVID-19 pandemic by prioritizing the purchase of products made in the US and other strategies, a recent Global Healthcare Exchange LLC (GHX) survey showed.
Acquired by RevCycleIntelligence via email, the survey of executives from over 200 provider and supplier organizations found that healthcare stakeholders are making healthcare supply chain resiliency and optimal demand forecasting top priorities to overcome the wide range of challenges presented by COVID-19. Chief among those challenges was the inability to source personal protection equipment...