Dr. Anne Snowdon joins Huge Moves in a new interview to share her perspective on the global supply chain crisis, exposing challenges in the system of delivering goods.

SCAN Health is pleased to provide its partners with access to a knowledge Mobilization platform that enables collaboration, coordination, and communication within the community of practice (CoP) for health supply chain resilience.

Dr. Anne Snowdon led a session on Digital Health Transformation as a Strategy to Advance Equity in Global Health Systems. This session focused on examining the role of digital transformation in advancing health system performance, including workforce sustainability, patient experience, quality and safety.

This October, SCAN Health organized its first in-person Dialogue Forum to bring its Community of Practice members together to engage, collaborate and discuss supply chain resilience in Canadian health care systems.

Dr. Anne Snowdon joined the SCMAO Healthcare Supply Chain and Procurement Leadership Series 3.0 webinar as a keynote speaker to discuss the topic of Advancing Supply Chain Resilience for Canadian Health Systems. She shared various implications related to the pandemic’s impact on the capacity and agility of the Canadian healthcare supply chain to manage unprecedented demands to support the health and wellness of Canadians and the health workforce.

Dr. Anne Snowdon, Scientific Director and CEO, SCAN Health, Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Odette School of Business, and Chief Scientific Research Officer, HIMSS has been awarded $2,489,160 to develop a community of practice (CoP) to advance supply chain resilience, workforce sustainability and economic recovery in Canada’s post-pandemic future.

Amidst the second wave of COVID-19, a successful vaccination campaign is widely viewed as the only way to overcome the pandemic. Although healthcare providers and industry worldwide have responded with an unprecedented rapid mass development of COVID-19 vaccines, Canada, like almost every country around the world, is facing challenges in mobilizing the capacity needed for rapid implementation of vaccination.

This paper, Key Characteristics of a Fragile Healthcare Supply Chain: Learning from a Pandemic, describes the key characteristics of health supply chain fragility, which has been informed by the experiences and perspectives of health and health supply chain leaders and stakeholders in Canadian health systems during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This year, SCAN Health’s groundbreaking, virtual business case competition provided students with the opportunity to develop solutions to a real-world challenge faced by health systems around the world – the coronavirus.

A recent event hosted by GS1 brought together senior healthcare industry leaders from Deloitte, The World Bank, the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists and the World Health Organization to discuss some of the key challenges and opportunities and early learnings presented by the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines worldwide.

Dr. Snowdon shared the findings of her COVID-19 Rapid Response–funded research that investigates and compares supply chain issues in the healthcare system throughout the pandemic.

SCAN Health is pleased to announce the short-listed teams in the SCAN Health Virtual Business Case Competition 2021.

It is long overdue for Canada to create a comprehensive digital strategy that ensures data (e.g. population data, supply data, and workforce health data) is available in real time, within and across jurisdictions, to inform leadership decisions that are proactive, able to anticipate risks and implement preventive measures to ensure every Canadian and health worker has the protection needed to sustain health, wellness and quality of life.

For the second consecutive year, Symmetric Health Solutions (Symmetric) wins the SCAN Health Design Competition.

For this week’s episode, co-host, Rob Havasy is joined by Rich Kucera, Principal of Symmetric Health Solutions and the winner of the 2019 SCAN Health Design Competition to discuss their innovative solution to the supply chain problem.

SCAN Health has partnered with HIMSS and the Odette School of Business at the University of Windsor to provide students from around the world an opportunity to showcase their knowledge and skills to create innovative solutions for Canada’s healthcare system.

SCAN Health has partnered with Eastern Health and NGen to improve and inform health system supply chain initiatives. Sourcing personal protective equipment has been a significant challenge as every health system in the world is focused on procuring needed equipment to protect their health workforce during COVID-19.

SCAN Health is pleased to announce The Path Forward: Accelerating Supply Chain Excellence & Safety in Health Systems in partnership with HIMSS and GS1 Canada taking place virtually on December 8, 2020. Join us as we explore the critical importance of achieving an integrated and digital supply chain that leverages global standards to drive healthcare quality and safety.

Dr. Anne Snowdon, Scientific Director and CEO, SCAN Health and Director of Clinical Research, HIMSS Analytics, is awarded $1.38 million to research Canada’s healthcare supply chain to identify ways to improve the processes critical to managing COVID-19 and planning for future pandemics.

Dr. Anne Snowdon, Scientific Director and CEO, SCAN Health and Director of Clinical Research, HIMSS Analytics, discusses the innovative state of Alberta Health Services’ supply chain system during several interviews with national media outlets.