Abstract:
Healthcare Supply Chain Logistics is series of processes, workforce involved across different teams and movement of medicines, surgical equipment, and other products as needed by healthcare professionals to do their job. The aim of Supply Chain in Healthcare is to find the vulnerabilities among departments and propose measures to reduce them. It aims to identify weak areas to achieve targeted health outcome and increases investments in global health. The advantages of efficient Supply Chain in Healthcare is improved processes, efficient utilization of resources, satisfied employees, effective treatment and happy Patients. The significance of the research paper is to analyze possible loopholes in the healthcare and recommended controls which can be applied practically so as to bring improvement in the healthcare. In Hospitals Integrated Supply Chain should be implemented to meet the objectives. The Supply Chain ensures proper linkage of hospitals department, operations, and revenue cycle. The Supply Chain can be visualized as a backend program running which is necessary to integrate all the different processes together. The supply chain implemented ensures availability of medicine/product at right time, minimizing inventory wastage, maximizing patient care, coordination in all departments minimizing human error/medication errors. This can be accomplished by using possible measures i.e. integrating subsystems (Smith, Brian K, 2011), streamlining workflow and use of RFID technologies, standard product code, Global Identification number (GIN).
Machine summary:
com Importance of Supply Chain Management in Healthcare of Third World Countries Monika Arora a, * and Yogita Gigras a a The North Cap University, Gurugram, India Abstract Healthcare Supply Chain Logistics is series of processes, workforce involved across different teams and movement ofmedicines, surgical equipment, and other products as needed by healthcare professionals to do their job.
The supply chain implemented ensures availability of medicine/product at right time, minimizing inventory wastage, maximizing patient care, coordination in all departments minimizing human error/medication errors.
In this paper different aspects of hospital as Medical Strategies and Service Excellence, Patient reception & Admission, Diagnosis and Patient Treatment, Medical record Maintenance, Patient discharge and Rehabilitation services are considered for need of Supply Chain Management (Figure 2).
Supply chain management plays an important role for Hospital Pharmacy to ensure timely availability of medicines at lowest possible purchasing cost.
There shall be a provision to have Regular Internal Review as well as Third Party Audit of EMR (Electronic Medical Records) with proper IT Security and Access control Supply Chain Management is the SCM on timely basis, and take corrective actions as per operations need of a particular hospital.
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