MedCity News June 4, 2020
Covid-19 has changed perspectives across most industries, but especially in healthcare, where it has exposed significant vulnerabilities in the supply chain. As hospitals have struggled to maintain proper levels of PPE, ventilators, and medications, hospital leaders have shifted their priorities toward supply chain optimization.
In fact, an April survey of 138 hospital leaders found that supply chain optimization is now hospital leaders’ second-highest priority, behind patient safety. The survey also found that supply chain analytics ranked second out of nine technologies that hospital leaders said has increased in importance during the previous four weeks
While hospitals can’t control external factors that affect the healthcare supply chain—such as if a supply chain disruption-inducing event such as Covid-19 occurs, or whether the...
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