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House Democrats want to make Covid-19 treatments free and plan to mandate the Trump administration create a supply chain czar to oversee the purchase and distribution of medical supplies in their next legislative package. House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) said he wants “some kind of clear national leader” for the medical equipment …

HEALTH CARE BRIEFING: Pelosi Eyes Supply Chain Czar in Next BillRead More

States and cities across the United States are reporting dangerous shortages of the vital medical supplies needed to contain the coronavirus. Why is the world’s biggest economy suffering such a scramble to find lifesaving equipment? Listen to the podcast here

Why is the U.S. Running Out of Medical Supplies?Read More

Khatereh Calleja, JD, President and CEO of the Healthcare Supply Chain Association (HSCA), weighs in on why GPOs play an important role in helping to support response efforts to emergencies like the coronavirus. Read his post below! Read More

Group Purchasing Organizations: Supply chain leaders in emergency responseRead More

The world’s largest retailer will delve into its sprawling global supply chain to identify a company to make an undisclosed number of gowns. Walmart does not sell surgical gowns in its stores, but some of its existing suppliers could have the capability to provide them. Some of its suppliers could have the capability to provide …

Trump Seeks Help From Walmart in Securing Surgical GownsRead More

Hospitals in the New York City area are turning to a private distributor to airlift millions of protective masks out of China. The U.S. military is flying specialized swabs out of Italy. And a Chicago-area medical supply firm is taking to the skies as well because a weekslong boat trip across the ocean just won’t …

Hospital Suppliers Take To The Skies To Combat Dire Shortages Of COVID-19 GearRead More

In this special “Planting Seeds” episode, John Pritchard and ANAE President Scott Pecore share feedback and discuss responses from suppliers to our COVID-19 survey. They also discuss the future relationship between the supplier and provider communities, what social-distance selling means for the National Account Executive during this un-ordinary time, and what a post-COVID-19 world will look …

Listen Now: Special COVID-19 episode of National Accounts TodayRead More

Kaiser Permanente canceled its $900 million headquarters project in Oakland, officials said Tuesday. The healthcare giant planned to build a 1.6 million-square-foot office tower that would have been Oakland’s biggest commercial project. But this week, the company told city officials the project was no longer happening. “Delays and increasing costs related to this project caused …

Kaiser Permanente cancels $900M headquarters projectRead More

Jonathan Manis, senior vice president and chief information officer at Christus Health, spoke about the current COVID-19 situation. Manis says as a result of this coronavirus crisis and our collective response to it, we just might be seeing what healthcare can look like once this crisis has passed. And it will pass, leaving all of …

There’ll be no “back to normal” for healthcare after COVID-19 crisisRead More

John Strong, a 45-year veteran of the healthcare industry, goes over the advantages and disadvantages of a medical product tracking system and how it could have prevented the supply shortages of key medical products due to the COVID-19 health crisis. Check out the List Here

Do We Finally Have A Tipping Point For A Better Healthcare Supply Chain?Read More

CNBC’s Meg Tirrell talks with Premier CEO Susan DeVore about the shortage of medical supplies hospitals are facing amid the coronavirus pandemic. Watch the interview here

Premier CEO on medical supply shortage hospitals are facingRead More

Steven Berkow, Advisory Board’s VP of Provider Research, spoke with Patrick J. Brennan, MD CMO and Senior VP at Penn Medicine, about what steps his health system is taking to care for a surge in COVID-19 patients. Penn Medicine is a six-hospital health system, including the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and …

Preparing for the surge: How Penn Med is bolstering capacity and staff to brace for COVID-19 casesRead More

Boston Medical Center, which launched telehealth visits on March 16, has seen a rapid increase in usage. Within 48 hours of deploying the service, the hospital had 1,500 virtual visits scheduled, according to the report. Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, BMC was hardly doing any telehealth, said Rebecca Grochow Mishuris, MD, associate chief medical information …

Telehealth visits at Mass General, Boston Medical Center skyrocketRead More

Kathleen Sebelius, who served as secretary of Health and Human Services under President Barack Obama, helped lead the administration’s negotiations with Congress over the Affordable Care Act and implementation of the law. Sebelius, who is also a member of the Kaiser Family Foundation board of directors, recently joined Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News’ chief Washington …

Sebelius, Looking Back At ACA, Says the Country’s Never “Seen This Kind of Battle”Read More