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Innovative tech for your health care supply chain — Medically Necessary

Visibility paired with technology is key

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.

The COVID-19 pandemic put a giant spotlight on the importance of supply chain visibility in the health care industry. And many companies are investing in better technologies to improve visibility in their supply chains. 

The goal is to make these supply chains more resilient and efficient. Combining more complete information about the supply chain with innovative technologies, such as artificial intelligence, offers even more opportunities to improve the supply chain.

Matt Blois welcomes Philip Trabulsi and Alec Hicks from Ryder to this episode of Medically Necessary, and the three discuss the benefits of increasing supply chain visibility, the pandemic’s effect on this technology and strategies to improve visibility.

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


Kaylee Nix

Kaylee Nix is a meteorologist and reporter for FreightWaves. She joined the company in November of 2020 after spending two years as a broadcast meteorologist for a local television channel in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Kaylee graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 2018 and immediately made the Tennessee Valley her home. Kaylee creates written summaries of FreightWaves live podcasts and cultivates the social media for FreightWaves TV.