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On the Supply Chain Management of Public Hospital Materials

2010 International Conference on E-Product E-Service and E-Entertainment, 2010
As public goods, hospital materials lack internal cost pressure and external efficiency motive, so there are many problems in the supply system of hospital materials - the sluggish prediction of medical material demand as well as the patient-oriented response plan, ineffective information communication and coordination between supply and demand of ...
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Hospital Materials Management: Systems and Performance

Journal of Purchasing and Materials Management, 1989
This study was designed to examine the relationship between hospital materials management performance and the use of a computerized inventory control system. Twenty‐two general hospitals in the state of Georgia were analyzed. Research findings indicate that those hospitals using computer‐based systems exhibited a better fill‐rate performance, but also ...
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Components for Material Master Data Management in Swiss Hospitals

2019
The material master data catalogue in large hospitals may well exceed 50'000 articles required at one or another location for patient diagnosis and treatment. Most hospitals use a commercial material management IT system to deal with orders, eProcurement, incoming goods, warehouse management, internal commissioning and distribution.
Michael, Lehmann, Marwin, Philips, Claudia, Telesca, Murat, Sariyar, Jürgen, Holm, Erwin, Zetz, Thomas, Bürkle   +6 more
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Hospital materials managers as merchants.

Hospital material[dollar sign] management, 1987
The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) provides a number of special rules which apply to merchants. Some apply "between merchants" and others use the terminology "as against a merchant". It is important that hospital materials managers understand these rules as they apply to their operations.
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Hospital material management in Taiwan: a survey.

Hospital materiel management quarterly, 1998
The new insurance policy that began in 1995 for all people in Taiwan and severe competition within the health care industry are some of the pressing issues forcing hospitals to improve their operational efficiency. A primary productivity improvement for hospitals is the reduction of the cost of material management because the materiel function on ...
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The hospital materials management operations appraisal.

Hospital purchasing management, 1985
Materials management is responsible for approximately 25% of the operating expense of the typical hospital. With the emphasis today on cost containment due to the various TEFRA, DRG and prospective payment regulations, many health care institutions are demanding increased economics and efficiencies from the various materials functions.
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Hospitals and material management in the coming decade.

Hospital materiel management quarterly, 1991
The 1990s will be a decade of increasing dramatic and traumatic change for hospitals. Reimbursement, technology, and consumers, either alone or in concert, will be the forces that will shape hospitals in the future. At the end of the 1990s we will have hospitals that offer technology to the critically ill, outpatient surgical services, and comforting ...
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Cost analysis of hospital material management systems.

Journal of the Society for Health Systems, 1998
Integrated healthcare material management begins with manufactures of medical/surgical supplies, uses distributors and ends at the point of use at hospitals. Recent material management philosophies in the healthcare industry, such as just-in-time and stockless systems, are yet to be fully evaluated.
P J, Egbelu, C M, Harmonosky, J A, Ventura, W E, O'Brien, H J, Sommer   +4 more
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