Amazon won't enter hospital supply chain

The retailer is dropping plans to sell pharmaceuticals to hospitals


Amazon is dropping plans to enter the hospital supply chain by selling pharmaceuticals to healthcare facilities, according to an article on the Fierce Healthcare website.

Some experts say one issue is hospitals inflexibility when it comes to supply chain management. 

Amazon was unable to get big hospitals on board with the plan, despite convening an advisory board for the project that includes hospital executives, according to CNBC.

"The hospital and healthcare systems have entangling alliances with their existing purchasing and supply chain partners," Tom Cassels, head of strategy and business development at Leidos Health, said in the article.

Read the article.

 



April 25, 2018


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