SCO6096: Supply Chain Management in the Health Care and Medical Devices Sector

The course prepares students to develop capabilities for designing and sustaining supply chains to enable the delivery of high quality, high volume, and affordable physical and mental healthcare equitably in both developed and developing countries. The course advances an end-to-end, supply chain–centric view of the healthcare and medical devices sector—i.e., linking the development of care to the delivery of care: “from bench to bed.” The course highlights the interdependencies between organizations on the upstream (e.g., medical devices, pharma, and biotech firms) and downstream (e.g., hospitals and clinics) of the healthcare supply chain. The implications of scientific and technological advancements—specifically, artificial intelligence (AI), robots, genomics, mobile and wearable devices, and telemedicine—for healthcare supply chains will be a theme that will run throughout the entire course.

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