Category: Supply Chain

Concerns are emerging about worsening drug shortages in the U.S. after a tornado ripped through a major Pfizer manufacturing plant in Rocky Mount, N.C., on July 19. 

Medline Industries, a private manufacturer and distributor of medical products, is now home to New York’s largest rooftop solar project at its Montgomery distribution center, according to a July 20 news release.

Supply chain plays a critical part in hospital operations, and the same goes for the people in charge of supply chain.

Medtronic recalled 348,616 implantable cardioverter defibrillators and cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators because they might fail to deliver energy when high voltage therapy is needed, the FDA said July 18. 

Nearly 8,000 cardiac panel blood tests have been recalled after 41 reports of inaccurate test results that pose the risk of missing a heart attack diagnosis, the FDA said July 17. 

Researchers from NYU Langone Health and University of New York, both based in New York City, found discrepancies in the marketing of artificial intelligence and machine learning-enabled medical devices compared with FDA approval summaries.

About 1,060 ventilator products between two companies are recalled because of the risk of serious injury or death, the FDA said July 13. 

Detroit-based Henry Ford Health tapped HPC International, a purchased services supplier for healthcare, on July 11 to manage its expenses process.