You can throw the keywords "risk," "disruption," "disaster," "cost," "preparation," "prediction," "prevention," "avoidance," and probably a dozen more into a blender and come up with whatever phrase you want to describe the same thing: something bad is going to happen, and you want it to impact you as little as possible.
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Is your supply chain stable? Are healthcare providers immune to Betteridge's Law? These and other questions answered by this blog (and your common sense).
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Hospitals have long had a monopoly on care delivery, so they've rarely had to act competitively as businesses. That's beginning to change.
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Everybody reports to somebody. But healthcare providers tend to have a skewed view on how top-down decision-making should be.
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Supply chain pros are frequently obligated to deprioritize personal and professional goals to address industry shortcomings. Nowhere is that problem more frequent than healthcare.
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What happens when healthcare providers and their supply chains are told that they will not be given the support that they need?
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Working in healthcare is often threatening to the physical, mental, and financial health of its very workers.
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The constant assaults on your mental and physical health probably aren't going to slow down anytime soon. But, hey, will free burritos help?
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What if you looked into a box, expecting to find a housecat, but you find a bobcat? It sounds insane, but we promise that somehow helps explain healthcare inventory optimization.
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