The AI Use Case That Healthcare is Overlooking
AI performs best where a problem is well-defined, data-intensive, repetitive and operates at a scale that exceeds human tracking capacity. The supply chain hits all four.
6 Ways in Which Healthcare Needs to Expand the Supply Chain Resilience Conversation
Supply chain resilience is far too important to leave with the supply chain specialists. Health systems must elevate the resilience issue to the corporate strategy level and involve officers from other functional areas as well.
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Top 7 Modern AI-Powered EAP Providers for Global Workforces in 2026
Discover the top AI-powered EAP providers for 2026. Compare platforms like Kyan Health and Spring Health on triage speed, global reach, and clinical quality to transform workforce wellbeing.
Maximizing Value vs. Minimizing Cost in Healthcare Purchasing
Is a private-label product really better once you factor in performance, durability, and everything it takes to support it? Sometimes yes and sometimes no. The job is knowing the difference.
How Allina Health Is Modernizing Its Supply Chain Strategy
As hospitals face ongoing cost pressures and supply chain disruptions, Allina Health is redesigning its procurement strategy by moving away from a decentralized sourcing model and toward an approach that prioritizes governance and tech-driven efficiencies. Chief Supply Chain Officer Tom Lubotsky shared how the health system is saving money and boosting supply chain resilience.
Healthcare’s Tariff Conundrum: Mitigating Supply Chain Risks with Data and Relationships
Improving the outlook starts with a better supply chain model — one that shifts from a transactional to strategic focus and is built on collaborative supplier models and more domestic sourcing.
Cultural Challenges to the Much-Needed Digital Revolution in Healthcare Supply Chain Management
Like in every other industry, AI is knocking on the doors of healthcare with solutions that promise to revolutionize delivery of care. Advancing from a pen-and-paper mindset to a digital revolution will require the use of bridge technology.
Where Will AI Deployment Benefit Payers the Most?
We are taking a look at how health insurers are using AI, defining success, and managing cybersecurity risks. Give us your opinions by completing our brief, anonymous survey.
Unlocking Hidden Value: Navigating Healthcare Procurement Maturity
The Procurement Maturity Model is more than just a self-assessment tool; it's an invitation to transform.
Red Sea Shipping Disruptions Don’t Have Pharma Companies Seeing Red Just Yet
Generic drugs are the pharmaceutical products mainly affected by the missile attacks disrupting shipping in the Red Sea. While the extra costs borne by drug companies aren’t causing an immediate spike in product prices, experts say they’ll eventually be factored into prices if the attacks become a long-term problem.
How a ‘Costco Model’ for Health Care Supply Chain Presents a Best Bet for Value
By reimagining health care supply chain as a centralized, high-value distribution and product selection and procurement model, hospitals and health systems can more effectively reach their goals for expense reduction while driving substantial improvements for patients and team members alike.
Reprocessing beyond cost savings: Growing supply chain resilience
Designing devices for re-use remains a more resilient solution for supply disruption in healthcare devices. But until manufacturers consistently pursue this strategy, single-use device reprocessing can provide the benefits associated with a circular economy solution.
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Inside an Automated Healthcare Practice: Redesigning Care Around People, Not Paperwork
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
Streamlining vaccine supply chains – it’s all about the label
While a great deal of attention has been given to streamlining supply chains – and ensuring vaccines reach healthcare providers and their patients around the world – one of the most critical components is also the most overlooked: the label.
Getting to know clinical care pathways: A basic lesson in supply chain
Making the supply chain a part of the CCP creation process helps healthcare systems predict equipment and supply needs for standardized treatment options.
To improve patient satisfaction, hospital supply chain units need to be more like ant hills
I’ve been looking at hospital supply chain automation and the IT surrounding it for a number of years now. Starting with Cardinal Health but then moving on to help a number of other vendors in the space, I’ve felt that there’s not been enough next-generation tech being applied to the low margin, high volume business of hospital […]
As Medtronic goes international, supply chain becomes top priority
Improved global supply chain management is becoming crucial to an industry squeezed by increased regulation and higher taxes, a panel of medical device experts said recently. The panel discussion, one of the keynote events of the LifeScience Alley 2013 Conference in Minneapolis, was an exploration of how some of the industry’s biggest brands are approaching […]
New product scores funds to connect hospitals and med device companies via big data
Elevate Ventures’ IEDC awarded Curvo Labs, a startup based in Evansville, Indiana, and San Diego, California, $50,000. The idea? Use regularly refreshed hospital purchasing data to provide an “on-ramp” for medical device companies, then use the offers those companies make to drive down costs for hospitals. In theory, this would create sales efficiency for […]