1st Edition
Global Healthcare and the Supply Chain Revolutionizing Healthcare, One Patient at a Time
Prologue: How Medical Innovations of Preceding Centuries Affected Modern Healthcare Supply Chain
Introduction
Abstract
Part I: The Evolution of The Healthcare Supply Chain
1. Understanding the Healthcare Supply Chain System
2. Procurement Strategies in the Healthcare Industry
3. Streamlining Healthcare Supply Chain Inventory
4. Healthcare Distribution: Growth and Challenges
5. Regulatory Compliance
6. Technological Integration into Healthcare Supply Chain
7. Quality Assurance and the Healthcare Supply Chain
Part II: The Healthcare Supply Chain and Healthcare Systems
8. Are Supply Chain Inefficiencies a Threat to Healthcare?
9. Healthcare Demand versus Other Demand Models
10. Healthcare Supply Chain’s Response to Demand Fluctuations
11. Why Medical Supply Shortages Keep Occurring
12. Supply Chain Transportation Barriers to Healthcare Industry
13. Healthcare Supply Chain in a Resource-Constrained World
14. Should Healthcare Supply Chain Be Restructured?
15. How Is Artificial Intelligence Changing the Healthcare Supply Chain?
16. How Digitalization Has Generated Benefits and Increased Deliverables
17. It Is Time to Clinically Integrate the Healthcare Supply Chain
18. The End-to-End Healthcare Supply Chain
Part III: Changes in Healthcare Supply Chain Over the Last Ten Years
19. Medical Packaging and Labeling in Healthcare Supply Chain Industry: Or How to Stay Compliant
20. The Circular Supply Chain and Its Implications in Healthcare
21. Solving Structural Challenges in the Healthcare Supply Chains
22. Environmental and Social Initiatives in the Healthcare Supply Chain
23. The Role of Standards in the Post-Pandemic Healthcare Supply Chain
24. Tariffs and the Healthcare Supply Chain
Part IV: Ethics and Social Responsibility in Healthcare Supply Chain
25. Ethical Sourcing
26. Patient Safety and Product Integrity
27. Access and Equity
28. Corporate Social Responsibility
Part V: Technology Transforming The Healthcare Supply Chain
29. Amazing Things Happen When Care is Available, Anytime and Any Place
30. Blockchain Ramification on Healthcare Supply Chain
31. Does Artificial Intelligence Improve Patient Care in the Healthcare Supply Chain?
32. Robotics Impact on Healthcare Supply Chain and Industry
33. Big Data Transforming the Healthcare Supply Chain
Part VI: Best Practices and Strategies in Healthcare Supply Chain
34. Lean Management and the Healthcare Supply Chain
35. Reasons to Prioritize Agility in the Healthcare Supply Chain
36. Is a Hybrid Model Best for Healthcare Supply Chain?
37. Cold Chain Logistics and Healthcare Supply Chain
38. Metrics for Performance and Improvement in the Healthcare Supply Chain
Part VII: The Importance of Medical Affairs in The Global Healthcare Supply Chain
39. Understanding the Scope of Medical Affairs
40. The Key Responsibilities of Medical Affairs within the Supply Chain
41. The Impact of Medical Affairs on Patient Well-Being
42. Ensuring Quality, Safety through Communications
43. Medical Affairs' Influence on Regulations and Standards
44. How Medical Affairs is Reshaping the Global Healthcare Supply Chain: Bridging Science and Marketing
45. Emerging Trends and Challenges for Medical Affairs
Part VIII: Global Healthcare Supply Chain without Borders; Partnerships and International Logistics
46. Models of Collaboration between Government and Private Sector
47. Challenges in Cross-Border Healthcare Supply Chain
48. Strategies to Improve Global Healthcare Supply Chain Access
49. Medical Waste Management in a Global Healthcare Supply Chain
50. One Global Health Approach: Integrating Humans, Animals, and the Environment to Prevent Global Disease
51. Why Global Health Security in Global Healthcare Supply Chain
52. Why Should Clinicians Care about Global Medical Security?
Part IX: Future-Looking Perspectives on the Healthcare Supply Chain
53. Equity and Supplier Mixture in the Healthcare Supply Chain
54. After Climate Change, Should the Healthcare Supply Chain Change Now?
55. The Fragility Crisis in the Healthcare Supply Chain
56. Cybersecurity Threats and New Safeguards
57. Cloud-Based Systems Are Changing the Healthcare Supply Chain Landscape
58. How 3D Printing Is Revolutionizing Healthcare Supply Chain
59. Hospital Bankruptcies and the Healthcare Supply Chain
60. Will Mergers and Acquisitions Improve the Healthcare Supply Chain?
61. Supply Chain Is the Key to Non-Acute Care Expansion
62. Workforce Strategies Transforming Healthcare Supply Chain
Part X: Universal Healthcare Supply Chain versus Market Healthcare Supply Chain
63. The Definition of Both Systems with Their Pros and Cons
64. Quality of Care in a Universal Healthcare System versus a Market System
65. Human-Centric Healthcare Supply Chain
66. Challenges of Cost Management: Universal or a Market Healthcare Supply Chain
67. Is Innovation Suppressed in a Universal Healthcare Supply Chain
Epilogue: The Optimistic Future of the Global Healthcare Supply Chain
Biography
Stuart Rosenberg is an accomplished supply chain management professional with a number of years of experience using outstanding communication and leadership skills to coach, mentor, and motivate professionals in challenging environments. As the president and chief consultant of First Choice Supply Chain, his reputation as a savvy supply chain leader is beyond reproach for delivering resourceful business strategies and customer focused solutions. His work with several multi-national corporations—Johnson & Johnson, Cadbury, Reckitt Benckiser, and Linde Gas—and his far-reaching experience in launching, managing, and mentoring new programs and strategies resulted in greater customer confidence and improved business results. Stuart is a Professor of Supply Chain at Middlesex College. He sits on two advisory committees—one at Seton Hall University’s Stillman School of Business and the other at Middlesex College’s Faculty Development Committee. Stuart is also the author of three supply chain books, with a fourth one to be released in 2026.
