See the stockout coming.Act before it reaches a patient.
Vista helps hospital pharmacy and supply chain teams manage shortages of critical medications, med-surg supplies, PPE, devices, and clinical consumables — without replacing the systems they already use.
Vista reduces the time between “we have a shortage” and “we have an approved plan.”
The problem
The data exists. The shortage plan is still manual.
EHRs, ERPs, pharmacy inventory systems, wholesaler portals, med-surg supply systems, and dashboards all hold part of the answer.
In one ASHP case example, UNC Health supported shortage decisions across 20 campuses by piecing together wholesaler invoices, EHR utilization, and site-level usage data from multiple systems. (ASHP News, 2024)
But when a shortage hits, teams still chase data across spreadsheets, emails, meetings, supplier portals, and local reports to answer basic questions:
What do we have?
Where is it?
How fast are we using it?
When will we run out?
Which sites or services are exposed?
What can we transfer, substitute, conserve, expedite, allocate, or buy?
Who approved the plan?
The result is expensive firefighting: clinical time lost, emergency purchasing, inconsistent decisions, delayed care, excess waste, and unclear accountability.
A 2025 Vizient survey estimated that U.S. hospitals spent about 20 million labor hours — nearly $900 million — managing 2023 drug shortages. Among respondents, 43% reported shortage-related medication errors and 27% reported disruptions to patient care. (Vizient, 2025)
ASHP also describes drug shortages as a significant threat to patient care, contributing to delayed treatment, increased medication-error risk, unnecessary costs, and time spent locating medications instead of focusing on direct care. (ASHP)
The shift
From scattered signals to approved action.
Vista brings fragmented supply, demand, inventory, supplier, and clinical signals into one shortage-response workflow, so pharmacy and supply chain teams can move quickly from risk to decision.
Teams can see what is at risk, how long supply will last, what supply is actually usable, what options exist, who needs to decide, and what action was approved.
Example shortage action plans · illustrative
IV fluids — 0.9% sodium chloride, 1L bags
14 hospitals · Jul 2026 – Sep 2026
5 facilities may stock out in 2 days
5 out · 3 watch · 6 covered
18,400 bags
Cisplatin & carboplatin — oncology injectables
6 infusion centers · Jul 2026 – Oct 2026
2 infusion centers within 5 days of stockout
2 out · 1 watch · 3 covered
1,240 vials
Blood culture bottles — aerobic / anaerobic
14 hospitals · Jul 2026 – Aug 2026
Allocation from supplier cut 40% this cycle
2 out · 6 watch · 6 covered
31,000 bottles
Iohexol contrast media — imaging
11 imaging sites · Jul 2026 – Sep 2026
Usage running 22% above plan at 4 sites
1 out · 4 watch · 6 covered
8,600 vials
Amoxicillin oral suspension — pediatrics
5 children's sites · Aug 2026 – Nov 2026
Substitute approved; conservation in effect
0 out · 1 watch · 4 covered
5,150 bottles
Epinephrine prefilled syringes — crash carts
96 care sites · Jul 2026 – Dec 2026
Par levels hold; transfer plan approved
0 out · 8 watch · 88 covered
12,900 syringes
What Vista does
How Vista builds the plan.
See the risk
Identify shortages across critical medications, med-surg supplies, PPE, devices, implants, and clinical consumables.
Calculate coverage
Estimate days of coverage using demand, usable inventory, open orders, backorders, allocations, supplier updates, and site-level usage.
Compare options
Evaluate actions such as transfer, substitute, conserve, expedite, purchase, allocate, or escalate.
Govern the decision
Capture evidence, assumptions, reviewers, approvals, and final actions in a durable decision record.
Works with the systemsyou already have.
Vista does not replace your EHR, ERP, pharmacy inventory system, wholesaler portal, or med-surg supply system. Your existing systems remain the source of record. Vista sits above them as the shortage action layer — turning fragmented data into a plan your team can review, approve, and execute.
The same fragmentation exists across broader hospital supply chain operations. Healthcare item data is often spread across disconnected systems, creating manual correction, operational inefficiency, and limited visibility across procurement, inventory, and billing workflows. (GHX, 2026)
Works alongside
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Your systems
- EHR & pharmacy
- ERP & MMIS
- ADCs & automation
- Wholesaler portals
- Med-surg & procedural
- Spreadsheets & reports
Vista: the shortage action layer
Turns fragmented data into a plan your team can review, approve, and execute.
Approved action plan
Your existing systems remain the source of record.
Durable decision record
Audit trail
Implementation
Start small. Prove value quickly.
Vista can begin with available exports, reports, or read-only feeds from existing systems.
A focused pilot can start with one shortage-prone category, a small group of hospitals or sites, daily inventory and usage data, open orders, supplier status, known substitutes, and the existing approval workflow.
- No rip-and-replace.
- No major workflow disruption.
- No need to start with full EHR integration.
- Minimal PHI where the planning use case allows.
Governance
Built for high-consequence decisions.
Hospital shortages affect patient care, clinical workflow, pharmacy operations, purchasing, finance, and executive risk.
Evidence you can trace
Source data lineage and visible assumptions behind every recommendation.
People own the decision
Role-based review and human approval, with clear separation between recommendations and committed actions. AI assists without taking the decision.
History that holds
Decision history, audit trails, and versioned plans.
Vista helps teams move faster without losing control.