HSCA Releases Issue Brief Detailing Learnings and Best Practices from Industry COVID-19 Response
WASHINGTON, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The Healthcare Supply Chain Association (HSCA), which represents the nation’s leading healthcare group purchasing organizations (GPOs), today released an analysis of key learnings, best practices, and case studies on the role of GPOs in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The issue brief, “Healthcare Group Purchasing Organizations: Critical Partners in the COVID-19 Response Effort,” highlights specific ways in which GPOs were able to shore up domestic manufacturing and help new suppliers come to market, communicate about anticipated demand surge to allow manufacturers to increase capacity, avert supply and drug shortages, and protect healthcare providers and patients from counterfeit or inferior medical products.
“Healthcare group purchasing organizations have long helped avert drug shortages and safeguard access to essential medical supplies, a role that has become even more important during the COVID-19 pandemic. GPOs are critical partners helping hospitals and the healthcare system avert and mitigate the impact of shortages, and have helped reduce the number of shortages by half over the last decade,” said HSCA President & CEO Todd Ebert, R. Ph. “HSCA’s examination of the role of GPOs in national COVID-19 response efforts revealed that GPOs helped safeguard provider and patient access to essential supplies; added new manufacturers and shored up domestic manufacturing; protected hospitals from counterfeit and inferior products, and harnessed data and cutting-edge technology to improve patient care.”
Specific finings and best practices about the ways in which GPOs helped healthcare stakeholders navigate the COVID-19 pandemic included:
To view the full HSCA issue brief, click here.
About the Healthcare Supply Chain Association (HSCA)
The Healthcare Supply Chain Association (HSCA) represents the nation’s leading healthcare group purchasing organizations (GPOs), which are critical cost-savings partners to America’s hospitals, nursing homes, nursing home pharmacies, clinics, home healthcare providers and surgery centers. GPOs deliver billions in savings annually to healthcare providers, Medicare and Medicaid, and taxpayers. HSCA and its member GPOs are committed to delivering the best products at the best value to healthcare providers, to increasing competition and innovation in the market, and to being supply chain leaders in transparency and accountability. For more information, visit www.supplychainassociation.org. Follow HSCA on Twitter @HSCA.
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