Understanding Healthcare Distribution

The COVID-19 pandemic has led policymakers, media, and others to want to better understand the healthcare supply chain. HIDA has developed new resources to provide a high-level overview of the supply chain and the important role of distributors within it.

Healthcare Distribution Overview Presentation

Help your team, your trading partners, and other stakeholders understand:

  • Important reasons that healthcare providers rely on distributors for their supplies
  • Differences in distribution by provider segment
  • The critical role distributors play in crisis response
  • Distributors’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Impact of the pandemic on both supply and demand
  • The difference is between healthcare distributors and opportunistic brokers

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Resources

Resource
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Lessons Learned: A Path Forward For Pandemic Planning
Fact Sheet
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Medical Products Distribution: An Overview | One-page fact sheet provides a quick industry reference
Infographic
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COVID-Driven Demand Created Supply Problems That Have Challenged The Supply Chain
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What Happens When Brokers Get Involved
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Healthcare Distribution Overview
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Difference Between Distributors And Brokers Infographic

Press Contact:

Sharon Cohen»
Communications Director
HIDA, 703-838-6104