About Us

SCAN Health (Supply Chain Advancement Network in Health) is a non-profit organization dedicated to driving positive change in healthcare supply chains. Supported by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), we are committed to benefiting patients, providers, and communities nationwide. While industries outside of healthcare have embraced supply chain best practices to enhance safety and efficiency, the healthcare sector lags behind. The absence of strategic supply chain management impedes our ability to meet the escalating demand for safe care while striving to improve efficiency, control costs, and deliver value to patients.

At SCAN Health, we believe that reimagining clinical supply chain processes holds the key to mitigating adverse event, crises and revolutionizing care delivery. Our location at the University of Windsor provides us with a unique platform to collaborate, innovate, and drive impactful change in the healthcare supply chain landscape.

Join us in our mission to transform healthcare supply chains for the betterment of all.

Mission

Through collaborative efforts with experts and organizations, we aim to gather valuable insights from disruptions and uncover innovative solutions. Our goal is to enhance the agility of healthcare supply chains, proactively managing disruptions in the supply of products critical for delivering patient care.

Vision

Health supply chain is an essential lifeline that makes it possible for health systems to deliver safe and quality patient care. It is crucial that Canada develops, adopts and scales solutions to achieve supply chain resilience that enables health systems to track products and utilization rates to inform strategies that reduce risk of supply shortages and disruptions to protect the health and safety of patients and our health workforce. SCAN Health’s mission is to ensure every Canadian hospital, health system and community health setting has the capacity to deliver world-class patient care through a robust supply chain infrastructure which includes informing policy development, supporting domestic suppliers and designing digital integration to capture critical data points.

All sectors around the world felt devastating impacts from COVID-19 and there is much to learn from each other. By working together, we can mobilize our collective expertise and accelerate the collaboration needed to tackle the most pressing issues facing health systems in a post-pandemic future. This Community of Practice is creating a future that will advance digitally enabled supply chain infrastructure to ensure access to essential data to inform decisions by governments and healthcare leaders, a secure pipeline of quality products where they are needed most, protection for personnel to sustain the workforce and increased manufacturing capacity to advance economic recovery and prepare Canada to meet patient needs. The Community of Practice's co-design strategy dismantles barriers among stakeholders and jurisdictions, ensuring that all viewpoints and expertise contribute to the co-design of solutions and implementation at scale.