Managed Healthcare Executive June 1, 2020
Despite heroic efforts by hospitals across the country, the healthcare supply chain has struggled in the fight against COVID-19. Current shortages include PPEs, ventilators, and drugs—and patients, physicians, and nurses are suffering grave consequences. While no hospital could have anticipated a supply chain disruption of this magnitude, they were unprepared.
The healthcare supply chain has long operated decades behind other industries. Once considered a leader in innovation—hospitals were among the first companies to utilize enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and materials management information systems (MMIS)—they have not kept pace. Resource limitations and competing priorities, including mounting pressure by public and private payers to reduce costs while improving quality, have placed supply chain optimization on the back burner.
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