Supply chain disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic: Recognizing potential disruption management strategies

Moosavi, Javid; Fathollahi-Fard, Amir M.; Dulebenets, Maxim A.

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.102983

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“…[ 72 ]. Apart from these, due to much of the traditional training being suspended during the pandemic, virtual reality (VR) technology was used in the local hospitals for training medical practitioners and patients [ 9 , 72 ]. The training enabled health workers to practice anytime and eliminated the need for face-to-face contact.…”

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“…As expected, they have to purchase medical care products to respond to the COVID-19 threat and paradigm changes [ 16 ] and begin to purchase and store medical care products. The border closures, plus the unpredicted changes in demand and supply, produced remarkable healthcare supply chain disturbances across the globe [ 9 ]. In such cases, effective healthcare supply chain management is crucial, as we need to make sure that necessary healthcare products are distributed diversely in a healthcare system at the right quality and quantity, and in time [ 17 ].…”

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“…At present, many communities are facing unresolved issues (e.g., insufficient healthcare equipment and supplies, lack of reliable blood supply chains, and lack of effective human remain logistics) that prevent them from dealing with the virus successfully. In this regard, Moosavi et al (2022) [ 9 ] emphasized that big data analytics enhance the healthcare supply chain in three main dimensions, namely inter-functional integration, hospital-supplier integration, and hospital-patient integration. Specifically, data-driven healthcare supply chains have overcome the constraints of developing low-income country healthcare systems and improved operational flexibility to address the disruptions created by COVID-19.…”

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“…As of the beginning of June 2021, nearly 170 million confirmed cases and more than 3.6 million deaths were recorded due to COVID-19 [ 6 ]. A rapidly growing number of COVID-19 cases in Asia, the United States, and European regions led to the implementation of various strategies by the relevant authorities, such as “lock-downs”, “staying-at-home” orders, quarantines, social distancing policy, restrictions on public gatherings, public health campaigns (e.g., decreasing face touching, face coverings, and wearing masks in the public areas, decreasing the use of shared public spaces, and increasing handwashing), provisional shutdown of certain businesses (e.g., entertainment facilities, shopping malls, and restaurants) [ 7 , 8 , 9 ]. Online teaching and learning were implemented in response to “school-closures” globally [ 4 , 10 , 11 ].…”

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Healthcare Supply Chain Management under COVID-19 Settings: The Existing Practices in Hong Kong and the United States

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COVID-19 is recognized as an infectious disease generated by serious acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. COVID-19 has rapidly spread all over the world within a short time period. Due to the coronavirus pandemic transmitting quickly worldwide, the impact on global healthcare systems and healthcare supply chain management has been profound. The COVID-19 outbreak has seriously influenced the routine and daily operations of healthcare facilities and the entire healthcare supply chain management and has brough about a public health crisis. As making sure the availability of healthcare facilities during COVID-19 is crucial, the debate on how to take resilience actions for sustaining healthcare supply chain management has gained new momentum. Apart from the logistics of handling human remains in some countries, supplies within the communities are urgently needed for emergency response. This study focuses on a comprehensive evaluation of the current practices of healthcare supply chain management in Hong Kong and the United States under COVID-19 settings. A wide range of different aspects associated with healthcare supply chain operations are considered, including the best practices for using respirators, transport of life-saving medical supplies, contingency healthcare strategies, blood distribution, and best practices for using disinfectants, as well as human remains handling and logistics. The outcomes of the conducted research identify the existing healthcare supply chain trends in two major Eastern and Western regions of the world, Hong Kong and the United States, and determine the key challenges and propose some strategies that can improve the effectiveness of healthcare supply chain management under COVID-19 settings. The study highlights how to build resilient healthcare supply chain management preparedness for future emergencies.

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“…COVID-19 pandemic has been huge effect on the tourism industry from the economic and social aspects for healthcare logistics and supply chains [55]. One of the important and effective parameters in the revival of the tourism industry in the post Corona era and the reconstruction of the damaged industries is the sense of belonging and dependence on the place.…”

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Stochastic medical tourism problem with variable residence time considering gravity function

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Al-e-hashem²

2022

RAIRO-Oper. Res.

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Medical tourism is a recent term in healthcare logistics referring to travel of patients to receive health services and spending leisure time in a destination country. This transferring of patients leads to access high-quality health services which are cheaper than the original country of patients. During this travel, passengers who are the patients from another country, have this opportunity for complimentary entertainment packages (e.g., pleasure tours) in the aftercare period. As far as we know, the term of medical tourism is rarely studied in healthcare logistics and such services are highly important for developing countries. Such facts motivate us to develop a practical optimization model for the Medical Tour Centers (MTCs) for allocation of patients to hospitals in proper time and creation of memorable aftercare time for them. In this regard, the main aim of the proposed model is to maximize the total profit of MTCs through optimal allocation of patients to hospitals while considering an aftercare tour for the passengers. To make the proposed model more realistic, the optimal residence time in attractive places is simulated by a time-dependent gravity function. To address the uncertainty of medical tourism problem, a scenario-based two-stage stochastic optimization approach is extended to encounter different sources of uncertainty existing in surgical success, medical time, restoration restrictions, and the attraction of tourist places. Another novelty of this work is to propose an innovative hybrid meta-heuristic for large-scale instances, which is a combination of Progressive Hedging Algorithm (PHA) and Genetic Algorithm (GA). The model is analyzed by different test problems for small, medium, and large-scale instances where the hybrid meta-heuristic algorithm could solve them with an average gap of 3.4% in comparison with the commercial solver. The results revealed the importance of tourist opinion and public preferences in medical and pleasure tours, respectively, to improve the economic growth in this sector in developing countries.

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How Should Health Care Organizations Limit Roles of Human Trafficking in Their Labor and Supply Chains?

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AMA Journal of Ethics

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There has been little attention given to roles played by human trafficking in health care organizations' supply chains. Hand sanitizers and gloves, for example, might be produced by forced labor, which tends to increase in prevalence during pandemics, mass violence, migration, or other global crises. This article considers the nature and scope of health care organizations' corporate and social responsibilities to procure products and personnel justly, offers recommendations to minimize possibilities that supplies are produced by forced labor, and advocates for a public health approach to limiting human trafficking in organizations' supply chains.

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Supply chain disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic: Recognizing potential disruption management strategies

Cited by 268 publications

References 95 publications

Healthcare Supply Chain Management under COVID-19 Settings: The Existing Practices in Hong Kong and the United States

Healthcare Supply Chain Management under COVID-19 Settings: The Existing Practices in Hong Kong and the United States

Stochastic medical tourism problem with variable residence time considering gravity function

How Should Health Care Organizations Limit Roles of Human Trafficking in Their Labor and Supply Chains?

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