Supply chain issues to monitor in 2024
Becker's Healthcare January 17, 2024
As the healthcare supply chain continues to bounce back from COVID-19 disruptions, leaders are monitoring geopolitical concerns, inflation, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity dangers.
These factors, along with sustainability and clinical integration, are top of mind for health system supply teams.
Here is what five hospital supply experts recently told Becker’s:
1. Steven Chyung. Senior Vice President and Chief Supply Chain and Procurement Officer of Kaiser Permanente (Oakland, Calif.): We’re going to be in an inflationary environment for the foreseeable future. We really enhanced our ability on how we measure it. We’ll develop market baskets across everything that we buy; and on all the supplies, we’ll look at what we are buying now versus what we bought a...