Author name: barryholleman

In healthcare supply chain, disruption is a constant. A shortage is announced. A contract price moves. A supplier misses a delivery. Those events are real problems, and you cannot always prevent them.  What you can control is different: how early you see the disruption coming, and how quickly and confidently you respond once it does. That […]

When a drug goes into shortage, a hospital pharmacy team doesn’t simply wait for stock to arrive. They run a demanding daily process: checking inventory across the hospital using both software and manual counts, assessing what future supply looks like, working out whether approved substitutes are available, and then deciding which mitigation steps to take,

A recent report in Becker’s Hospital Review highlighted a reality that will resonate with healthcare leaders across North America: some of the largest health systems, including UPMC, CommonSpirit, Northwell Health, Trinity Health and HCA Healthcare, continue to operate multiple enterprise platforms as the result of decades of mergers, acquisitions and phased technology rollouts.  To address this

Supply chain systems are not short on data, they are overwhelmed by it. Product catalogs don’t align, supplier descriptions vary, and data coming from different systems is often inconsistent or incomplete. Before any optimization, forecasting, or decision-making can happen, organizations must first solve a more fundamental problem: making their data usable. Optivian was built on

MUUTAA is proud to announce its selection as part of Canada’s official delegation to VivaTech 2026, one of the world’s leading technology events, taking place in Paris from June 17 to 20. This delegation is led by Scale AI and brings together a group of innovative Canadian companies shaping the future of artificial intelligence and

The India AI Impact Summit concluded this week, an event we followed with great interest at MUUTAA. Many of the discussions around data readiness, infrastructure, and responsible deployment closely reflect challenges we have been carefully navigating over the years while building and implementing AI systems within healthcare supply chain environments. While large international AI gatherings

Most healthcare organizations want to use their data to improve forecasting, reduce waste or strengthen supply resilience, but many hesitate because the data seems incomplete or inconsistent. This leads to a common trap, the belief that better data must come first before any value can be created. Optivian Pulse solves this. Pulse reveals the value

In today’s healthcare world, supply chains are under enormous pressure. Rising costs, unpredictable demand, and complex flows across providers, distributors, and suppliers make coordination difficult. That is where MUUTAA and its Optivian platform come in, helping each actor in the chain turn data into action and action into measurable value. Building trust through data For

At MUUTAA, trust is not just a value, it’s the foundation of every healthcare supply chain partnership we build. That’s why we’re proud to announce that MUUTAA has successfully achieved SOC 2 Type II certification, a rigorous audit that validates our operational excellence in managing data securely and reliably. What is SOC 2 Type II?