Eugene Schneller is a professor of supply chain management at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. His research and consulting focus on public and private health system procurement and healthcare supply chain strategy in the U.S. and globally. He recently wrote an article on Fast Company that talks about why our healthcare system needs to act now to prevent shortages in our hospitals even after the coronavirus pandemic. “Even when COVID-19 recedes, our healthcare system can’t go back to business as usual. This crisis has revealed the dangers of viewing supply chains solely in terms of cutting costs. Hospitals may need incentives to approach supplies from a public health perspective instead and build up reserves for low-risk, high-impact threats” Schneller says. Read the full article below! |