The medical supply chain relies on an intricate system of shipping routes to deliver products on time.

A recent threat assessment from Healthcare Ready explored why some medical products are currently taking longer to get to their destinations. Healthcare Ready is a nonprofit organization that helps the national healthcare system respond to crises.

Community health centers (“health centers”) are a cornerstone for medically underserved communities across the U.S. and its territories. Beacons of healthcare accessibility, health centers play an indispensable role in addressing the multifaceted needs of communities, particularly for vulnerable populations. The significance of these centers becomes especially evident during crises, which can lead to a rapid influx of patients that overwhelms health facilities and causes other disruptions to health access. 

The Impact Report highlights Healthcare Ready’s most successful year yet, underscoring the organization’s dedication to advancing healthcare accessibility for all Americans by harnessing resources across partners and geographies.

Generic drugs are the pharmaceutical products mainly affected by the missile attacks disrupting shipping in the Red Sea. While the extra costs borne by drug companies aren’t causing an immediate spike in product prices, experts say they’ll eventually be factored into prices if the attacks become a long-term problem.

Health centers and clinics serving diverse and underserved populations experienced higher worker losses compared with other healthcare organizations, causing potential risks to the care of more than 31.5 million Americans in health centers and roughly 2 million in clinics, according to research from a year-long initiative ran by Healthcare Ready.

Healthcare Ready — the nonprofit organization established to help strengthen the U.S. healthcare system and assist communities in planning for, responding to, and recovering from disasters and disease pandemics — concluded a year-long initiative to understand the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and other disaster-related trauma on the healthcare workforce and highlights significant losses and burnout among healthcare workers, especially those who serve rural, low-income, or racially and ethnically diverse populations.

Health centers and clinics serving diverse and underserved populations experienced higher worker losses compared with other healthcare organizations, causing potential risks to the care of more than 31.5 million Americans in health centers and roughly 2 million in clinics, according to research from a year-long initiative ran by Healthcare Ready.

Watch this report on the Optum/Change Healthcare cyberattack.

Clinical trials can vary significantly in their levels of complexity, with the length, therapeutic area and number of patients taking part in all contributing factors. But sometimes the wider trends of the pharmaceutical industry can be just as much of an impact, and that’s what we’ve seen as medicine is becoming more personalized…

Nonprofit Healthcare Ready released a report on potential supply chain issues due to a drought-induced decrease in water level