
In addition to the serious news of the week, we're also bringing you a goofy way to distract yourself for five minutes. What a deal!
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In addition to the serious news of the week, we're also bringing you a goofy way to distract yourself for five minutes. What a deal!
Continue ReadingTopics: five to save, healthcare inventory, drug shortages, expiration, take 5, vaccines, healthcare supply chain, medical supply chain tracking software, service system for hospital inventory, inventory management system, management of hospital inventory

We’ve all had to adapt to a new normal during COVID-19, and those of us in the healthcare supply chain have had to adapt more than most. But the real question we have to answer now is: how can we take what we’ve learned and apply it to inventory management overall?
Continue ReadingTopics: Z5 Reallocate, savings, innovation, steward health care, podcasts, take 5, healthcare supply chain, medical supply chain tracking software, service system for hospital inventory, inventory management system, materials management
Topics: reallocation, five to save, excess inventory, cybersecurity, data breaches, healthcare data, emergency preparedness, healthcare supply chain, medical supply chain tracking software, service system for hospital inventory, inventory management system, management of hospital inventory

Hospitals should be sharing more information than ever right now. Should they also be sharing more information than they are?
Continue ReadingTopics: communication, coverup, emergency preparedness, coronavirus, ppe, covid-19, healthcare supply chain, medical supply chain tracking software, service system for hospital inventory, inventory management system, management of hospital inventory, whistleblowing

COVID-19 - and the response to it - can seem like a domino effect of unprecedented disasters. How do the facts back up - or refute - that sentiment?
Continue ReadingTopics: reallocation, five to save, emergency preparedness, coronavirus, ppe, covid-19, take 5, healthcare supply chain, medical supply chain tracking software, medical supply chain jobs, service system for hospital inventory, inventory management system, management of hospital inventory

The often-revisited metaphor of the "one weak link" causing the entire supply chain to fail was in some ways proved correct this year.
Continue ReadingTopics: reallocation, emergency preparedness, ppe, take 5, healthcare supply chain, medical supply chain tracking software, medical supply chain jobs, service system for hospital inventory, inventory management system, management of hospital inventory