Improving Healthcare Supply Chain Processes Via Data Standardization

Abstract

:As the healthcare supply chain becomes increasingly complex, a key driver of the cost and quality of healthcare delivery is the logistics process. We conducted two surveys of healthcare supply chain professionals to investigate efficiencies and improvement opportunities within the healthcare supply chain. An important challenge identified by surveyed healthcare supply chain professionals is the lack of data standardization across the healthcare industry. The survey findings, including the benefits of and barriers to data standardization and how engineering managers can support progress toward standardized data in an improved healthcare supply chain, are presented and discussed in this article.

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