SCAN Health is pleased to announce details of the Inaugural Global Networking Event 2017: Mapping the Global Journey to Supply Chain Excellence taking place on September 26th, 2017 in St. Louis, Missouri.

Kate Young, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Science and Joël Lightbound, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health today announced a $1.6 Million Networks of Centres of Excellence International Knowledge Translation Platform (NCE-IKTP) grant over four years for the Supply Chain Advancement Network in Health (SCAN Health), hosted by the University of Windsor.

Medical errors are not new news. The high number of deaths due to preventable medical errors made the headlines in 1999 with the publication of the Institute of Medicine’s To Err is Human report. Since then, there have been numerous other studies on the same topic, nearly all saying that the 1999 report underestimated the magnitude of the problem.