Supply chain management
The American Hospital Association (AHA) provides resources on supply chain management, the management of health care supplies manufacturing, distribution, delivery, utilization, and replacement.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response June 5 announced it selected two locations to test an automated, point-of-care, sterile saline manufacturing system that could help prevent or mitigate intravenous fluid shortages in the U.S.
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The U.S. Court of International Trade May 28 blocked (https://www.cit.uscourts.gov/sites/cit/files/25-66.pdf) a series of tariffs issued by the Trump administration under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a law granting the president authority to regulate various economic…
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In this Leadership Dialogue, I am joined by Brian Pomper, a partner specializing in international trade policy at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, and Akin Demehin, vice president of quality and safety policy at the AHA. We discuss tariffs and their potential implications on the health care…
Tina Freese Decker talks with Brian Pomper about the past and present state of U.S. tariff policy, how tariffs could impact hospital and health system operations, and ways health care leaders can engage as policy advocates.
A series of tariffs recently implemented could have significant implications for health care.
The AHA May 16 urged the Department of Commerce to consider tariff exceptions for critical minerals and derivative products used for medical purposes. Critical minerals have many medical uses, such as for magnetic resonance imaging, computerized tomography, positron emission tomography,…
AHA comments on the Department of Commerce’s request for public comment on its Section 232 national security investigation on processed critical minerals and derivative products.