Supply Chain Management

IBM Blockchain Helps Combat COVID-19 Supply Chain Shortages

April 30, 2020 - IBM recently launched a blockchain-based network designed to help government agencies and healthcare organizations identify suppliers and address COVID-19 supply chain shortages. The initiative, IBM Rapid Supplier Connect, is part of IBM’s approach to combat COVID-19 and tackle the shortage of equipment, devices, and supplies needed for...

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Hospitals Prepping Health IT Infrastructure for COVID-19 Outbreak

by Samantha McGrail

Information-technology leaders are racing to get ahead of health IT infrastructure challenges and provide employees with remote work tools as they anticipate shortages due to the COVID-19 outbreak,...

Hospitals Struggle with Cutting Healthcare Supply Chain Costs

by Fred Donovan

One in ten hospitals and other health systems said that they have had the greatest difficulty in reducing healthcare supply chain costs as part of their cost transformation strategy. Twelve percent of...

Clinical Supply Chain Integration Not a Priority for Hospitals

by Fred Donovan

While two-thirds of hospital administrators currently tie clinical supply chain integration initiatives to their budget, only 5 percent said clinical integration was their supply chain department's...

Cumberland Joins MediLedger Project Healthcare Blockchain Scheme

by Fred Donovan

Cumberland, a healthcare consulting and services firm, has joined the MediLedger Project, an initiative of Chronicled to use healthcare blockchain to improve drug supply chain networks. Chronicled is...

Half of Hospitals to Invest in Non-Clinical RPA, AI by 2021

by Fred Donovan

Half of hospitals plan to invest in robotic process automation (RPA) and artificial intelligence (AI) for non-clinical uses by 2021, a recent survey of 115 hospital leaders by Sage Growth Partners and...

IBM, Chainyard Launch Blockchain Network for Supply Chain Management

by Fred Donovan

IBM is teaming with Chainyard to launch a blockchain network to boost supply chain management for pharmaceutical companies, as well as firms in other industries. The new blockchain network, called...

White House Wants Transparency in Healthcare Artificial Intelligence

by Fred Donovan

The White House is calling for more transparency and “explainability” in healthcare artificial intelligence. Currently many algorithms are opaque to users, which creates problems for...

Healthcare Supply Chain Tasks Are “Stressing Out” Clinicians

by Fred Donovan

Clinicians spend more than twice the time they want to on healthcare supply chain tasks, according to a survey of 306 clinicians and hospital supply chain decision makers by Cardinal Health. Twenty...

MGH Works with Korean Startup on Healthcare Blockchain Project

by Fred Donovan

Massachusetts General Hospital’s Laboratory of Medical Imaging and Computation is working on a healthcare blockchain project with Korean startup MediBloc for patient data storage and exchange,...

New Healthcare Blockchain Effort to Ease Credentialing Burden

by Fred Donovan

A new healthcare blockchain initiative has been launched to help ease the administrative burden of professional credentialing, a process that can require four to six months to complete. The...

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