INVESTIGATING COOPERATIVE PURCHASING PERFORMANCE - A SURVEY OF PURCHASING PROFESSIONALS IN DUTCH HOSPITALS [PDF]
The Central European Review of Economics and Management, 2018 Aim: Cooperative purchasing is considered a promising area for lowering the cost in the health care sector, although recent initiatives show mixed results. The purpose of this study is to find a thorough explanation for the performance of cooperative purchasing in healthcare by investigating the role of trust, commitment, organizational factors (i.e ...
Gelderman, C. +3 more
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Active Purchasing: Empirical Insights From the Dutch Healthcare System and Lessons for Low- and Middle-Income Countries; Comment on “Measuring Active Purchasing in Healthcare: Analysing Reallocations of Funds Between Providers to Evaluate Purchasing Systems Performance in the Netherlands” [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and ManagementStadhouders et al critically examines the assumptions behind managed competition, revealing that competitive systems alone may not drive efficiency gains through fund reallocation.
Xiaohui Hou, Yanfang Su
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Collaborative e-Purchasing for Hospitals: IT for addressing collaborative purchasing impediments
, 2011 The benefits of collaborative purchasing are many, yet in the healthcare sector, in particular at hospitals, it is still uncommon. In this paper we identify major impediments for collaborative purchasing, resulting in a first component of our proposed collaborative e-purchasing model for hospitals; as a second component it contains a collaborative ...
Kusters, Robbert J.G., Versendaal, Johan
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Measuring Active Purchasing in Healthcare: Analysing Reallocations of Funds Between Providers to Evaluate Purchasing Systems Performance in the Netherlands [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2023 Background Purchasing systems aim to improve resource allocation in healthcare markets. The Netherlands is characterized by four different purchasing systems: managed competition in the hospital market, a non-competitive single payer system for long ...
Niek Stadhouders +4 more
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Open Life Sciences, 2022 Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) is the second most common primary liver cancer associated with a poor prognosis. ICC accounts for about 10% of primary liver malignancies but with increasing incidence in recent years.
Chen Xinju +6 more
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Trends of Negotiated Targeted Anticancer Medicines Use in China: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2022 Background In order to relieve the financial burden of the patients in China, the Ministry of Health (MoH) conducted the first national price negotiation and successfully negotiated three expensive medicines including 2 targeted anticancer medicines ...
Cong Huang +6 more
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Maternal health care wearing equipment based on fetal information monitoring
Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2020 In order to monitor the fetal information in real time and ensure the health of the pregnant women themselves and their fetuses during pregnancy, a kind of health wearing equipment, abdominal care belt is designed in this study, which can be worn by ...
Junyan Peng +4 more
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Does Scale of Public Hospitals Affect Bargaining Power? Evidence From Japan [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2017 Background Many of public hospitals in Japan have had a deficit for a long time. Japanese local governments have been encouraging public hospitals to use group purchasing of drugs to benefit from the economies of scale, and increase their bargaining ...
Konosuke Noto, Takao Kojo, Ichiro Innami
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BMC Health Services Research, 2021 Background In 2016 the UK Department of Health and Social Care published the results of a comprehensive review of efficiency in hospitals, identifying “unwarranted variation” in procurement (or purchasing) practices for materials, supplies and devices ...
Harriet Boulding, Saba Hinrichs-Krapels
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BMC Health Services Research, 2019 Background Demand for gastrointestinal endoscopy in Australia is increasing as a result of the expanding national bowel cancer screening program and a growing, ageing population.
Hannah E. Carter +8 more
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