SCAN Health
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2017
- HeadquartersWindsor, Canada
- Headcount1–10
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingServices
SCAN Health firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- SCAN Health
- Legal name
- Supply Chain Advancement Network in Health
- Website
- https://scanhealth.ca
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2017
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 1–10 employees
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Where SCAN Health is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Windsor
- HQ country
- Canada
- HQ region
- North America
Offices1 record
Markets served
SCAN Health business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Services
- Cost components
- Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others
Revenue model
- Government Research Funding: SCAN Health operates as a non-profit organization supported primarily by government research funding. The primary funder is the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), which awarded $2,489,160 to Dr. Anne Snowdon to create a Community of Practice to advance healthcare supply chain resilience, workforce sustainability, and economic recovery.
- Partner Contributions and In-Kind Support: SCAN Health benefits from in-kind and financial contributions from its 110+ partner organizations spanning healthcare systems, industry, government, and citizen groups. These partnerships provide resources, expertise, and operational support rather than direct revenue.
Go-to-market motion2 records
Distribution channels3 records
Marketing channels8 records
SCAN Health product offering
Product offeringCore offering
SCAN Health is a Canadian non-profit research organization that co-designs healthcare supply chain resilience solutions through a pan-Canadian Community of Practice of more than 110 partners spanning health systems, government, industry, and citizen groups. Its outputs include an AI-enabled domestic supplier search platform, a co-designed healthcare supply risk assessment tool, digitally enabled supply chain strategy frameworks, and knowledge mobilization products such as a podcast series, research publications, and annual reports.
Product overview
SCAN Health (Supply Chain Advancement Network in Health) is a non-profit research organization dedicated to advancing healthcare supply chain resilience in Canada. Rather than a traditional product company, SCAN Health operates as a collaborative research network that produces publications, tools, and frameworks. Its core offerings include the Community of Practice (a network of 110+ partners), the AI-enabled 'Built Here, Bought Here' search platform for identifying Canadian suppliers, the 'Early Warning' risk assessment tool, and the SCAN Health CAN podcast series. The organization also publishes research on digitally enabled supply chains and workforce sustainability. SCAN Health's work is anchored at the University of Windsor and supported by SSHRC funding.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- SCAN Health CAN Podcast: The organization's podcast featuring discussions with industry experts on healthcare supply chain resilience topics
- Community of Practice
Products and services
- SCAN Health CAN Podcast A podcast series featuring conversations with industry experts, clinicians, and policy leaders on healthcare supply chain resilience topics, with episodes featuring leaders from Patient Advisors Network, Canadian Institute for Health Information, NGen, Mackenzie Health, and McKesson Canada. Available on Spotify and Spreaker.
- Built Here, Bought Here Platform An empirically tested, AI-enabled search platform designed to automate the sourcing of health products from Canadian companies, enabling supply chain teams to identify Canadian suppliers for health products and supporting a 'Canada First' procurement strategy.
- Early Warning Risk Assessment Tool A standardized healthcare supply risk assessment tool, co-designed through a national Community of Practice representing over 60 organizations across healthcare, industry, and government, that quantifies both the probability of supply disruption and its impact on patient care to enable proactive decision-making.
- Digitally Enabled Supply Chain Strategy A co-designed strategy defining digital supply chain features to ensure Canadian health systems have the supply chain capacity to deliver quality and safe care, including clinically integrated digital supply chain features, standardized data content for product traceability, global product data standards integration, and interoperability across Canadian healthcare systems.
- Community of Practice A pan-Canadian collaborative network bringing together over 110 partners including researchers, healthcare organizations, government agencies, and citizens to co-design healthcare supply chain resilience solutions through six dedicated workgroups.
- Knowledge Mobilization Platform An online platform supporting collaboration, coordination, and communication within SCAN Health's Community of Practice for health supply chain resilience, providing 110+ partners with access to co-designed solutions, knowledge resources, and workgroup outputs.
Quantifiable outcome
- Over 3,000 medical supply shortages occur each year in Canada, lasting longer than in other countries, underscoring the urgent need for SCAN Health's supply chain resilience solutions.
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Companies that use SCAN Health
Customer profileNamed customers4 records
Segments5 records
Ideal customer profiles3 records
SCAN Health technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
AI capability5 records
Feature6 records
SCAN Health partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
17 partnerships are on record, tiered core and major.
- Integrated Network for the Surveillance of Pathogens: Increasing Resilience and Capacity in Canada's Pandemic Response (INSPIRE)coreSCAN Health announced a partnership with the INSPIRE project at the University of Windsor, focused on surveillance of pathogens and increasing resilience and capacity in Canada's pandemic response, representing a strategic alignment of supply chain resilience expertise with public health surveillance.
- McKesson CanadamajorMcKesson Canada is listed as a key partner in SCAN Health's Community of Practice. Jean-Philippe Blouin, Senior Vice President of Pharmaceutical Distribution and Operations at McKesson Canada, was appointed to the SCAN Health Board of Directors as Board Treasurer.
- GS1 CanadamajorGS1 Canada is a partner organization supporting SCAN Health's work on global product data standards for supply chain traceability. GS1 hosted events bringing together senior healthcare leaders to discuss COVID-19 vaccine supply chain challenges.
- Next Generation Manufacturing Canada (NGen)majorNGen is the Canadian advanced manufacturing organization that collaborated on developing AI-enabled supplier finding platforms for domestic manufacturing capacity and supported companies pivoting to produce PPE during the pandemic.
- Canadian Association for Pharmacy Distribution Management (CAPDM)majorAngelique Berg, President and CEO of CAPDM, was appointed to SCAN Health's Board of Directors. CAPDM and SCAN Health co-host the annual CAPDM conference where Dr. Snowdon delivers keynote presentations on supply chain resilience.
- Patient Advisors Network (PAN)coreThe Patient Advisors Network is a partner organization co-leading the Citizen Forum workgroup. Alies Maybee, Co-Chair of PAN, co-hosts podcast episodes with Dr. Snowdon discussing how citizens manage health supply chain disruptions.
- Imagine Citizens NetworkcoreImagine Citizens Network, an Alberta-based citizen network dedicated to amplifying citizen voices in healthcare, partners with SCAN Health through the Citizens Forum, ensuring citizen perspectives shape supply chain resilience solutions.
- Canada Health InfowaymajorCanada Health Infoway is listed as a partner supporting SCAN Health's digital supply chain interoperability initiatives. The partnership leverages Infoway's Interoperability initiatives and Pan-Canadian Health Data Content Framework strategy.
- Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)majorCIHI, led by President and CEO Dr. Andy Chuck, partners with SCAN Health on using supply chain data to maximize value in health systems. CIHI's Pan-Canadian Health Data Content Framework supports SCAN Health's digital supply chain strategy research.
- HealthcareCANmajorHealthcareCAN is listed as a partner supporting SCAN Health's Community of Practice and representing the voice of Canada's healthcare organizations in supply chain resilience co-design initiatives.
- NL Health ServicesmajorNewfoundland and Labrador Health Services is a partner through its VP of Innovation and Research (Ron Johnson) and Senior Director of Supply Chain (Tony Williams) leading the Domestic Supplier Network Sustainability and Sourcing/Procurement workgroups.
- Ontario HealthmajorOntario Health is listed as a partner in SCAN Health's Community of Practice, contributing provincial health system perspective to supply chain resilience solutions.
- Mackenzie HealthmajorMackenzie Health, led by President and CEO Altaf Stationwala, partners with SCAN Health through the Sourcing/Procurement workgroup. Mackenzie Health contributes insights on technology adoption, data analytics, and supply chain management in hospital settings.
- HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society)majorDr. Anne Snowdon serves as Chief Scientific Research Officer at HIMSS. HIMSS is listed as a partner supporting SCAN Health's digital health and supply chain interoperability research. Dr. Snowdon participated in HIMSS podcast interviews on data accuracy in healthcare.
- Alberta Health ServicesmajorAlberta Health Services is listed as a partner in SCAN Health's research, having been featured in case studies on digitally enabled supply chain as a strategic asset for pandemic response. Alberta has an established centralized digital healthcare supply chain strategy.
- Canadian Pharmaceutical Distribution Network (CPDN)coreCPDN, led by President Sav DiPasquale, partners with SCAN Health through podcast collaboration on agile healthcare supply chain strategies and strategic change management for equitable health supply chains.
- University of WindsorcoreThe University of Windsor, located at 401 Sunset Ave, Windsor, ON, hosts SCAN Health within its Odette School of Business. Dr. Anne Snowdon is a Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Odette School. The partnership provides academic infrastructure and research platform.
Scale indicators5 records
Recent moves6 records
Expansion highlights5 records
SCAN Health competitors and assessment
Company assessmentBroad incumbents
- Vizient Inc. US-based healthcare performance improvement and supply chain consulting firm. Comparable as a healthcare supply chain advisory and analytics provider to large health systems, though operating at significantly larger commercial scale.
- HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society): Global health IT organization where SCAN Health's CEO Dr. Anne Snowdon serves as Chief Scientific Research Officer. Operates at broader scale across digital health maturity and interoperability, providing global distribution for SCAN Health's research.
- McKesson Canada: Canada's largest pharmaceutical distributor and SCAN Health Community of Practice partner (SVP serves as Board Treasurer). Overlaps on supply chain distribution strategy but operates as a commercial enterprise rather than research body.
Direct peers
- Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI): Federal health data agency partnering with SCAN Health on supply chain data and outcomes. Both produce data-driven insights that inform national health system policy and resource planning.
- Canada Health Infoway: Federal digital health organization partnering with SCAN Health on interoperability initiatives and the Pan-Canadian Health Data Content Framework. Overlaps directly on digital supply chain standards and health IT interoperability goals.
- Canadian Association for Pharmacy Distribution Management (CAPDM): Pharmaceutical distribution association with a board seat at SCAN Health. Co-hosts SCAN Health keynotes and shares a focus on supply chain resilience, distribution standards, and pharmacy supply continuity.
- GS1 Canada: Standards body for supply chain product identification partnering with SCAN Health on global product data standards and traceability. Both work on unique product identification and point-of-care utilization data infrastructure.
- HealthcareCAN: National voice of Canadian healthcare organizations, partnering with SCAN Health in the Community of Practice. Both advocate for system-level reform and represent the healthcare sector to federal policymakers on resilience and workforce issues.
- NGen (Next Generation Manufacturing Canada): Canadian advanced manufacturing supercluster that co-developed AI-enabled supplier platforms with SCAN Health and supported pandemic PPE pivots. Strong overlap on 'Canada First' supply chain and domestic manufacturing capacity mapping.
Emerging players
- HealthPRO Procurement Services: Canadian healthcare group purchasing organization that lists SCAN Health's research outputs as partner-supported. Operates a procurement angle on supply chain resilience that intersects with SCAN Health's risk assessment framework.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat5 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
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SCAN Health leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles11 records
SCAN Health funding detail
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Frequently asked questions about SCAN Health
What does SCAN Health do?
SCAN Health is a Canadian non-profit research organization that co-designs healthcare supply chain resilience solutions through a pan-Canadian Community of Practice of more than 110 partners spanning health systems, government, industry, and citizen groups. Its outputs include an AI-enabled domestic supplier search platform, a co-designed healthcare supply risk assessment tool, digitally enabled supply chain strategy frameworks, and knowledge mobilization products such as a podcast series, research publications, and annual reports.
Is SCAN Health a public or private company?
SCAN Health is a private company. It is classified as nonprofit foundation owned and is currently operating.
When was SCAN Health founded?
SCAN Health was founded in 2017. It employs 1 to 10 people.
Where is SCAN Health based?
SCAN Health is headquartered in Windsor, Canada, in the North America region.
How does SCAN Health make money?
Two revenue lines are on record. Government Research Funding is the primary driver. The others are partner Contributions and In-Kind Support.
Who are SCAN Health's main competitors?
Broad incumbents on record are Vizient Inc., HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) and McKesson Canada. Direct peers are Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), Canada Health Infoway, Canadian Association for Pharmacy Distribution Management (CAPDM), GS1 Canada, HealthcareCAN and NGen (Next Generation Manufacturing Canada). HealthPRO Procurement Services is listed as an emerging player.
Does SCAN Health have an API?
No public API is recorded for SCAN Health.