Description of Session
Supply chain is procurement. Plain and simple. Population health is concerned with the health of entire communities. Population health is focused on the social determinants of health. Population health is compassionate, is analytical, is forward facing. Supply chains and population health don’t really have anything to do with each other. Right? Wrong. This panel will argue for placing supply chains at the very center of a vision for the future of healthcare. Supply chains should be far more than logistics. Supply chains are global nervous systems. They determine what surrounds us; the rate and flow of the goods we see. Rather than preparing for the future, many of the world’s most critical health supply chains face backwards, designed to fix problems that have already occurred or focused myopically on the transactional. This panel will address the health supply chains of the future from three very different perspectives. Nita Stith ran one of the largest healthcare supply chains in the United States as Chief of Strategy and Operations Integration for Providence St. Joseph Health; Nita now assists healthcare organizations lead, grow, and strengthen their supply chain operations as a senior manager at EY. Jessica Crawford is a director at VillageReach and has developed and led a broad portfolio of health innovations focused on health systems strengthening and improved performance at the last mile of the health system with particular expertise in supply chains. Drew Arenth, MBA has devoted his career to modernizing supply chains. He is the Chief Business Officer at macro-eyes and leads the predictive supply chain for vaccines: a macro-eyes initiative to make the delivery of vaccines predictive, transforming supply chains for vaccines into mechanisms that prepare for precisely anticipated need, cutting wastage and increasing opportunities for immunization.
