New tech solutions aim to improve patient experience — Medically Necessary

Medically Necessary is a podcast by Matt Blois about the health care supply chain — how we get drugs, devices and medical supplies to health care providers and patients.Medically Necessary is a podcast by Matt Blois about the health care supply chain — how we get drugs, devices and medical supplies to health care providers and patients.

This show is brought to you by Ryder, the only fully integrated logistics & transportation provider in the industry. Ryder’s solutions cover the entire supply chain including warehousing, transportation logistics, e-commerce fulfillment, & last mile. Discover how Ryder can make you ever better at ryder.com.

In the past, administrators of health systems saw the supply chain as something that was primarily a cost, and the goal was to reduce those costs as much as possible. However, more recently, health care providers are starting to see the supply chain as something that can add value to patient care. 

On this episode of Medically Necessary, Matt Blois brings on Gary Allen, vice president  of supply chain excellence at Ryder, and Garrison White, Ryder’s senior director of continuous improvement. The three discuss how logistics providers like Ryder play an indirect but still major role in adding value to patient care. 

Allen and White explain how Ryder provides those strategic solutions for value-based supply chain management and how that value translates downstream into places like hospitals, medical suppliers and eventually directly to patients. 

You can find more Medically Necessary episodes and recaps for all our live podcasts here.