Effective March 31, 2021, HIMSS will deliver SCAN Health’s annual networking event, virtual business case competition, and design competition under the leadership of Dr. Anne Snowdon. These programs will support HIMSS’s mission to reform the global health ecosystem through the power of information and technology.

Amidst the second wave of COVID-19, a successful vaccination campaign is widely viewed as the only way to overcome the pandemic. Although healthcare providers and industry worldwide have responded with an unprecedented rapid mass development of COVID-19 vaccines, Canada, like almost every country around the world, is…

WINDSOR, ONTARIO, March 4, 2021 – This year, SCAN Health’s groundbreaking, virtual business case competition provided students with the opportunity to develop solutions to a real-world challenge faced by health systems around the world – the coronavirus. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted significant supply chain issues with sourcing and distributing…

A recent event hosted by GS1 brought together senior healthcare industry leaders from Deloitte, The World Bank, the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists and the World Health Organization to discuss some of the key challenges and opportunities and early learnings presented by the distribution of the COVID-19…

Failure of the global health system supply chain can place both clinicians and patients at great risk, with devastating outcomes when products are not available or when supply chain processes are interrupted and do not function optimally. This paper, Key Characteristics of a Fragile Healthcare Supply Chain:…

Dr. Snowdon shared the findings of her COVID-19 Rapid Response–funded research that investigates and compares supply chain issues in the healthcare system throughout the pandemic. This roundtable discussion was attended by public health professionals, health system leaders and academic experts from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The…

SCAN Health is pleased to announce the short-listed teams in the SCAN Health Virtual Business Case Competition 2021. The students' applications addressed a current and real-world global challenge. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted significant supply chain challenges as health systems around the world struggle to manage the…

It is long overdue for Canada to create a comprehensive digital strategy that ensures data (e.g. population data, supply data, and workforce health data) is available in real time, within and across jurisdictions, to inform leadership decisions that are proactive, able to anticipate risks and implement preventive…

WINDSOR, ONTARIO (December 8, 2020) – For the second consecutive year, Symmetric Health Solutions (Symmetric) wins the SCAN Health Design Competition. The announcement was made today virtually at The Path Forward 2020, a premier supply chain healthcare event in partnership with SCAN Health, HIMSS and GS1 Canada. The…