Managing inventories of consumables and medical supplies come with a number of challenges for healthcare providers and some have been stepping up their games with IoT solutions. Healthcare providers are dedicating significant resources to the management of their consumables and medical supplies, commensurate with the challenges presented by the task as well as its critical nature when it comes to patient safety.
Replenishing inventories, balancing costly inventory excess vs. patient-critical supplies, automating labour-intensive counting and documenting, managing expirations and recalls: Increasingly, these operational challenges are turned into opportunities.
