90% of industry leaders are aligned on their top supply chain challenges and the best means of overcoming them.
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You feel like the supply chain has huge gaps and healthcare's infrastructure is deteriorating. And you're right. And - in more ways than one - you're not alone.
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Hospitals don't have enough medical or human resources to tackle their caseloads. Which begs the question: what do they have enough of? The answer...
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You don't have to be a supply chain expert to understand that nothing happens in a vacuum. The COVID-19 pandemic has helped make that increasingly clear to everyone.
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How is it that the phrase "the numbers are in" immediately conjures images of danger and doom? Can't "the numbers ever be good?
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While every other industry surges ahead in technology, strategies, and resilience, healthcare plods down its own path at a slow and steady pace. But this is one tortoise that might not make it to the finish line.
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Last fall we followed up on five topics that constantly come up in healthcare's supply chain. Now we're following up on that follow-up.
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It seems like everyone has a miracle fix for US hospitals. Can hospitals not help themselves?
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