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Gartner advises healthcare Chief Supply Chain Officers (CSCOs) to replace manual inventory counting and legacy scanning tools with autonomous supply rooms driven by computer vision and artificial intelligence.Garner reveals advances in computer vision, spatial sensing, and workflow automation enable Periodic Automatic Replenishment (PAR) rooms to autonomously monitor inventory levels, predict demand, and trigger reorders with minimal human involvement.Autonomous supply
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Gartner Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25: AdventHealth Ranks No. 1, Driven by AI and Clinical Collaboration
What You Should Know:
- Gartner, Inc. has released its 17th annual Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25 ranking for 2025.
- AdventHealth claimed the No. 1 spot, followed by Stanford Medicine and Bon Secours Mercy Health, underscoring the industry's focus on leveraging AI and clinical partnerships to drive efficiency and resilience.
Gartner's 2025 Ranking Highlights
The 17th annual Gartner Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25 ranking recognizes U.S. health systems for their leadership in
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Capsa Healthcare Acquires BlueBin, Creates a Complete Clinical Supply Management Solution
What You Should Know:
- Capsa Healthcare, a leader in healthcare workflow and supply management solutions, today announced its acquisition of BlueBin, a recognized innovator in Kanban-based supply chain systems and predictive analytics for healthcare.
- The strategic acquisition brings together two complementary capabilities, enhancing visibility, efficiency, and reliability across the entire clinical supply chain. Financial details of the acquisition were not
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Hospitals Face Mounting Supply Chain Crisis, Survey Reveals
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A new survey from symplr®, a provider of enterprise healthcare operations software, reveals the escalating challenges and shifting priorities facing U.S. hospitals and health systems in their supply chains. The 2025 State of Healthcare Supply Chain Survey, which polled nearly 100 healthcare supply chain leaders, highlights a landscape where disruptions have surpassed cost concerns, patient outcomes are a top priority, and a skills gap is hindering
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AdventHealth Enhances Supply Chain Operations with ParkourSC’s AI-Powered Platform
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- AdventHealth, a non-profit healthcare system, today announced a partnership with ParkourSC, a provider of AI-driven supply chain solutions, to optimize its supply chain operations and enhance the availability of critical medical supplies.
- The strategic collaboration will leverage ParkourSC's intelligent Inventory Control Tower to provide AdventHealth with real-time visibility into its supply chain, enabling proactive decision-making and improved
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Clarium Secures $10.5M for AI-Powered Hospital Supply Chain
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- Clarium, Inc., a healthcare technology innovator focused on transforming hospital supply chain operations, has secured a $10.5M in strategic financing round led by General Catalyst, with participation from Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Texas Medical Center Venture Fund, Yale New Haven Health, and existing investors.
- With this new funding, Clarium plans to expand its team, deepen partnerships with leading health systems, and continue refining its
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Healthcare Supply Chains Still in Survival Mode, Report Finds
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Three years after COVID-19 was declared a public health emergency, many healthcare supply chain leaders and frontline professionals are operating in survival mode, according to new industry research from Deloitte Consulting LLP.Ongoing challenges include economic pressures, multiple resource shortages, data visibility and labor issues.
Key Findings
To gain greater insight into these impacts, Deloitte expanded its study by conducting site visits to healthcare
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GHX Acquires Syft, AI-Powered Hospital Supply Chain Platform
What You Should Know:
- Today GHX announced its acquisition of Syft, a leading provider of AI-enhanced inventory control and end-to-end supply chain management software and services.
- As a wholly-owned subsidiary of GHX, Syft joins GHX’s value-based care division’s growing portfolio of solutions that help modernize the supply chain.
Modernizing Healthcare Supply Chain to Overcome COVID-19 Related Challenges
As health systems shift to value-based care as well as overcome
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Shoring Up the Healthcare Supply Chain: 4 Lessons From The COVID-19 Pandemic
In December 2019, the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response told a House committee that “supply chain issues were among the most significant challenges to preparing for an influenza pandemic as well as other infectious diseases.” A few months later, healthcare systems across the country and around the world are face-to-face with that harsh reality, as many of the largest healthcare suppliers are unable to fully meet the growing global demand for personal protective equipment
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5 Lessons from Past Epidemics and Shortages to Help Supply Chains Cope with COVID-19
If we don’t learn from history, are we doomed to repeat it? In 2009, as the H1N1 swine flu swept the globe, U.S. hospitals began to run out of test kits. Some had to set up tents to handle the rush of patients. Supplies of personal protective equipment including N95 respirator masks ran out in many places despite millions distributed from the national stockpile.
Today’s coronavirus crisis is exponentially worse yet eerily familiar. Hospitals in New York, the pandemic’s epicenter, are
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