HEALTHCARE SUPPLY CHAIN LEADERSHIP AND STRATEGY: HOW IT CAN HELP COST CONTAINMENT IN THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY

Healthcare supply chain management needs leadership and an organizational, strategic focus on accumulating sourcing and contracting capabilities for clinical preference items. An awareness of the problems and best practices in the supply chain is only an initial step toward future success. Healthcar...

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Published in:Cost management 2010-03, Vol.24 (2), p.37
Main Authors: Perry, Andy, Kocakülâh, Mehmet C
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Computer literacy
Customer relationship management
Electronic procurement
Health care
Health care expenditures
Health care industry
Hospitals
Information sources
Information systems
Information technology
Internal customers
Inventory
Managers
Materials management
Office supplies
Patient safety
Physicians
Preferences
Product development
Product lines
Professionals
Prospective payment systems
Purchase orders
Reimbursement
Skills
Suppliers
Supply chain management
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Summary:Healthcare supply chain management needs leadership and an organizational, strategic focus on accumulating sourcing and contracting capabilities for clinical preference items. An awareness of the problems and best practices in the supply chain is only an initial step toward future success. Healthcare is moving toward one key principle: clinical outcomes. As we embark on a new era of outcome-based reimbursement, our nation's health system is again at risk of constructing another incongruent strategy triangle if it neglects to give proper strategic emphasis and resources to supply chain management. A cross-disciplinary, inter-organizational leadership is needed in supply chain management to interface clinicians, suppliers, supply chain peers, and group purchasing organizations in a clinical value chain, outcome-based strategy. The abilities to collaborate and access, assimilate, and interpret information from each of these sources will be central to healthcare cost containment and success for all stakeholders.