Supply Chain
Leveraging regulatory allowances and establishing sound analytic capabilities can help ensure patients continue treatment with necessary drugs.
Rapid Supplier Connect is designed to help health systems and government agencies identify and onboard alternative vendors when certain supplies and PPE are in shortage.
The process kills germs from N95 masks while ensuring that the only person who touches the mask is the original mask-wearer.
The ventilators allow "patients who wouldn't otherwise have the opportunity to survive, to survive," says Dr. Stephen Richardson.
CEOs may keep their purchasing power and hospitals could see the increased use of telehealth stick around after the coronavirus is gone.
If the current pandemic continues much longer, acquiring needed ventilator medications will present long-term challenges for patient care.
Creative thinking will be needed to carve out the necessary critical care capacity to address the surge in COVID-19 patients.
Various hospital challenges are feeding off each other as three out of four hospitals treat patients with coronavirus symptoms, OIG report says.
Providers continue to face critical shortages of critical care staff, ventilators, masks and other personal protection equipment.
Half of U.S. physicians say they have treated a patient with COVID-19 symptoms, while three-quarters report not being able to test easily.