HIMSS Analytics® is pleased to announce a collaboration with Dr. Anne Snowdon, Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Chair of the World Health Innovation Network (WIN) and CEO of the Supply Chain Advancement Network (SCAN Health) located at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Through this unique initiative HIMSS Analytics will accelerate the development and launch of evidence-based tools to support supply chain transformation in global health systems.

The 2nd Annual SCAN Health Global Networking Event 2018: Leveraging Supply Chain Maturity to Achieve Value for Citizens and Clinician Teams, took place on June 5th, 2018 in Calgary, Alberta.

Three ground-breaking case studies released today by the World Health Innovation Network (WIN) find that supply chain processes, based on global standards, improve safety, quality and performance in three global health systems.

The SCAN Health Virtual Business Case Competition is the first of four invitational business case competitions designed to build leadership capacity for excellence and innovation in supply chain and logistics strategies in global health systems.

The SCAN Health Design Competition is a virtual, international design competition that focuses on a real-world, health system challenge.

SCAN Health is pleased to announce details of the Inaugural Global Networking Event 2017: Mapping the Global Journey to Supply Chain Excellence taking place on September 26th, 2017 in St. Louis, Missouri.

Kate Young, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Science and Joël Lightbound, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health today announced a $1.6 Million Networks of Centres of Excellence International Knowledge Translation Platform (NCE-IKTP) grant over four years for the Supply Chain Advancement Network in Health (SCAN Health), hosted by the University of Windsor.

Medical errors are not new news. The high number of deaths due to preventable medical errors made the headlines in 1999 with the publication of the Institute of Medicine’s To Err is Human report. Since then, there have been numerous other studies on the same topic, nearly all saying that the 1999 report underestimated the magnitude of the problem.