Mercy: Delivering better quality healthcare at a lower cost
How Mercy has leveraged its supply chain to provide better, more cost-effective healthcare
Healthcare
The Doctor will Skype you now — The Digitalization of Medicine
Partners Healthcare, one of the pre-eminent US hospital systems, has started to use TeleHealth to ease access issues, improve efficiency and extend reach in the healthcare field. But what are the longer-term risks of this trend?
Re-inventing the medical device supply chain: How is Philips leveraging digitalization to up the ante?
Supply chain advances, through predictive analytics and remote upgrades in medical devices, are enabling the transition to value-based care.
RFIDs, bar codes and health care costs
A nonprofit hospital system is digitalizing its supply chain to lower cost and improve operational efficiency.
Digitalization in the pharmaceutical industry: Pfizer
With the advent of digitalization, the pharmaceutical industry is using information sharing to improve its manufacturing and supply chain efficiency. Pfizer’s creation of the PCMM plant is one way manufacturing may change in addition to gathering provider-level, and perhaps even patient-level, information. But can providers and patients trust Pfizer and other members of the pharmaceutical industry with their data?
A Perfect Fit: 3D Printing Custom Medical Devices
3D printing is poised to revolutionize supply chains in life sciences. Medical device and pharma giants are preparing to leverage this new technology to deliver customized medical implants with localized, just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing.
“Climatitis!” Global Warming Meets Healthcare in the Big Apple
What does climate change have to do with the hospital design and construction of Mount Sinai's newest hospital?
Free Apple Watch! and other ways Aetna is embracing digitization
Aetna is using digital technologies to create efficiencies in the health insurance supply chain.
Pharma Supply Chain: Source or Savior of the Opioid Crisis in America?
A digitized supply chain in pharma has unfortunately failed to mitigate the growing opioid crisis in America. Can it and will it?
Pie in the Sky: can Africa help UPS in the Game of Drones?
UPS invested in last mile drone delivery and innovative partnerships in Rwanda and Tanzania, but is that enough to leapfrog Amazon and Google? Or will they remain a fast follower?