Supply Chain Pulse — 2026-05-18
Supply Chain Pulse — 2026-05-18
Here are today's top healthcare supply chain stories.
Parcel costs are moving faster than your audits can catch them
Carrier pricing moves in real time now. Is your parcel team keeping up?
Source: Supply Chain Dive - Healthcare
Product brands and the Hormuz crisis: an inventory problem
Brands have an inventory problem, and Hormuz made it expensive.
Source: Supply Chain Dive - Healthcare
Food-as-medicine gets a new test case in Newark
RWJBarnabas' $7 million facility is aimed at reducing chronic disease by helping people prepare and eat healthier food.
How Medicare Advantage turmoil is disrupting providers, patients
Medicare Advantage exits and benefit reductions are forcing seniors to change coverage, disrupting care plans and creating new costs for hospitals.
Healthcare Finance Playbook: How CFOs Drive High Performance
Learn how healthcare CFOs are navigating shrinking margins and rising demands, with strategies to modernize finance, adopt AI, and improve performance.
The hard road to healthcare automation, and why this time is different
Healthcare’s first automation wave exposed the limits of rigid RPA systems. Learn why agentic AI may finally help providers scale reliable, adaptive healthcare operations.
Leading the Next Era of Lung Transplant Care
Dr. Rachel Ann Criner of Temple Health discusses lung transplant innovation, donor technology, coordinated care and the future of pulmonary medicine in this new podcast episode.
Mayo Clinic CEO Dr. Gianrico Farrugia to step down this year
The Mayo Clinic board plans to name Dr. Gianrico Farrugia's successor in November.
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