Knowledge Center

In this two-part webinar, professors from top supply chain management degree programs share perspectives on the current landscape, trends and future expectations of the global supply chain and its impacts on the health care supply chain.

Read a sponsored blog from Owens & Minor to learn how strategic partnerships can help hospitals lower costs, improve supply chain resilience, and improve operational efficiency.

Explore common indirect spend risk considerations and prepare to take steps to introduce resiliency within indirect spend categories.

An introduction to environmental sustainability walking learners through strategizing on simple projects while outlining commitment to sustainability, and moving on to larger, multi-layered strategies highlighting long-term investment in global health.

Read a sponsored blog from Owens & Minor to learn how strategic partnerships can help hospitals lower costs, improve supply chain resilience, and improve operational efficiency.

Read a sponsored blog from Owens & Minor to learn how staff can spend less time on manual tasks and more time on patient care.

A detailed example of a new Master of Health Administration (MHA) program with a medical logistics concentration.

These past two years have taken a toll on the health care supply chain field, stretching resources, and demanding fast, innovative thinking to ensure that America’s health care systems had the supplies needed for patient care. Today, as we take small, careful steps to recovery and adjustment, many of us are looking to concrete data to inform best practices and to gain insight on how we might better prepare our organizations, as well as ourselves, for the future.

Supply chain teams across the U.S. continue to face supply shortages. One of the lessons learned during COVID-19 was the need to diversify and shorten the end-to-end supply chain.

Learn how Baptist Health forged its traditional AP cost center into a cost savings driver.

During this webinar you will take a look at the drivers of burnout and share organizational steps for addressing well-being in your organization.

Join manufacturers, distributors and providers as we consider what demand planning looks like in an uncertain world.

With overwhelming job demands and insufficient resources, health care workers – including supply chain professionals – are likely to experience increased anxiety, depression, trauma, burnout and other mental health issues. It is critical for hospitals and health systems to address burnout from a system-wide level to better care for your team members. These evidence-based actions can be initiated within 3 months and build a foundation for a long-term system well-being strategy:

Learn what is driving the Great Resignation and how this is affecting health care.

A panel of provider thought leaders as discusses the ISO 80369-3 (ENFit) small bore connector conversion successes, lessons learned and implementation processes.

Tariq Kahn, Materials Manager, Peri-operative Services, Montefiore Medical Center, discusses his “ah ha” moment of “I need your help”. In these three short podcasts Tariq considers how educating staff about the importance of each key player’s role improves their understanding of the final goal and helps projects to be accomplished with efficiency and success.

Supply chain attributes inform critical supply availability and alignment with internal and external needs, integral to meeting pressures to deliver safe care.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continues to report shortages of GE Healthcare’s Omnipaque™ (iohexol) and iodixanol intravenous contrast media products for computed tomography imaging. In an April 19, 2022, letter to customers, GE Healthcare said it was rationing orders for its iohexol products after a COVID-19 lockdown temporarily shut down its production facility for iodinated contrast media in Shanghai, China.

Matt Burns, Director eCommerce Solutions at Premier discusses the $200B explosion of health care supply chain e-commerce usage during the two years since the COVID-19 pandemic began and the variety of ways organizations are using it to increase revenue and improve transparency and operations management.   

Demand planning is essential in every field, including health care. Find out why and how to implement it!