Knowledge Center

Effectively managing a hospital’s inventory has always been important. However, it has become even more important over the past several years. Read this article to learn the most pressing challenges hospitals face in managing their inventory then discover how hospitals are working to solve them.

Learn how Rush University Medical Center took an innovative approach to cost reduction and achieved a 21% reduction in the hospital’s shoulder replacement spend, delivering $800,000 in savings in less than one year.

This white paper explores the importance of balancing health care supply sourcing through both domestic and international suppliers, the benefits and challenges of building new, domestic health care supply chains, and why community sourcing and warehousing can benefit hospitals, their staff and communities, and the delivery of high-quality patient care.

Read this article and discover three issues hospitals are focusing on to overcome supply chain challenges in 2023.

AHRMM AHA releases 2023 Environmental Scan  The AHA Environmental Scan provides key data and insights on the current health care landscape and can help organizations explore the pandemic’s ramifications on the health care field for the upcoming year and beyond. Topics include: •    The state of hospital and health system financial stability; •    Workforce shortages, resiliency, and technology solutions; •    The behavioral health crisis and the use of telehealth; and

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.

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.