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The Annual Conference is starting to take shape. The committee is working hard to establish the schedule. We are very excited to announce Randy Bradley as the keynote speaker. He is an Associate Professor of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management at Haslam College of Business at The University of Tennessee. As a healthcare supply chain and IT strategist and researcher he will address the impact of current business and supply chain transformation on healthcare Value Analysis in an interactive presentation called ‘From Traditional to Transformed’. More info is forthcoming.

 

By Summer Lin, The Sacramento Bee

By Lucas Manfredi, Fox Business
On Sunday, President Donald Trump challenged the Big Three automakers to switch their production lines over to manufacturing ventilators to meet the increasing demand states and hospitals say they will need to handle the spread of the coronavirus.

By Kai Kupferschmidt, Jon Cohen, Science 
On Friday, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced a large global trial, called SOLIDARITY, to find out whether any can treat infections with the new coronavirus for the dangerous respiratory disease. It’s an unprecedented effort—an all-out, coordinated push to collect robust scientific data rapidly during a pandemic. The study, which could include many thousands of patients in dozens of countries, has been designed to be as simple as possible so that even hospitals overwhelmed by an onslaught of COVID-19 patients can participate.