Mega-mergers and alignment to homecare and virtual care affect the healthcare supply chain greatly, says Eric O'Daffer, vice president analyst for the healthcare supply chain at Gartner.
For more than two years now, most organizations have been impacted by the supply chain disruption caused by the pandemic and its aftereffects. Like many companies, mine has been navigating these challenges as we work to deliver critical communications workflow technology to hospitals in North America. Covid-19 continues to increase the number of patients admitted and the length of stay, which are straining the healthcare system. We design our nurse call systems, handsets and intelligent software to help nurses work more efficiently and effectively, so when there are supply chain constraints for components in these products, we have an imperative to do everything we can to meet their needs.
The Biden administration is amid negotiations with several companies to bottle millions of new monkeypox shots. But officials say it could take months for those doses to be ready.
(CNN) -- The FDA issued an emergency use authorization Tuesday that allows health-care providers to change how the Jynneos monkeypox vaccine is administered, stretching out the supply amid high demand.
The Biden administration's embrace of dose-sparing, an approach intended to stretch the limited supply of monkeypox vaccine doses, is partly based on a 2015 study funded by the NIH, according to two senior administration officials.