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Video Forum: Chip Davis, Healthcare Distribution Alliance

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Ahead of next month’s Healthcare Distribution Alliance Business and Leadership Conference, Chip Davis, president and chief executive officer of the association, tells this week’s Video Forum about the prevailing attitude in the industry. Full implementation of the Drug Supply Chain Security Act later this year, the challenge of coping with current shortages of some medications, and how to enhance health equity are among the other topics that Davis addresses.

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