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There’s a vast field of analytics starting to explore what’s driving people’s behavior. Why are patients choosing the products they are? How are patients responding to the products that they are using? And that allows us to get rid of these hundreds of days of inventory that we stuck everywhere in the supply chain just in case we needed to orchestrate an outcome for a patient. It’s critical. Because ultimately, we want a patient-centric network involving all patients sharing data in real time and collaborating all the way back into the product supply network. --- Return to: [The Patient-Driven Supply Network](https://tracelink.com/the-patient-driven-supply-network/) [Video](/category/video)[Supply Chain Collaboration](/category/supply-chain-collaboration), [Supply Chain Digitalization](/category/supply-chain-digitalization)[Supply Chain](/category/supply-chain) #### Table of contents Subscribe to Agile Supply Chain Insights Stay informed with the latest patient-centric agile supply chain thought leadership content. 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