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Modelling Hospital Materials Management Processes
Raffaele Iannone
; Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Salerno, Via Ponte Don Melillo, Fisciano, Italy
Alfredo Lambiase
; Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Salerno, Via Ponte Don Melillo, Fisciano, Italy
Salvatore Miranda
; Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Salerno, Via Ponte Don Melillo, Fisciano, Italy
Stefano Riemma
; Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Salerno, Via Ponte Don Melillo, Fisciano, Italy
Debora Sarno
; Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Salerno, Via Ponte Don Melillo, Fisciano, Italy
Sažetak
Materials management is an important issue for healthcare systems because it influences clinical and financial outcomes. Before selecting, adapting and implementing leading or optimized practices, a good understanding of processes and activities has to be developed. In real applications, the information flows and business strategies involved are different from hospital to hospital, depending on context, culture and available resources; it is therefore difficult to find a comprehensive and exhaustive description of processes, even more so a clear formalization of them. The objective of this paper is twofold. First, it proposes an integrated and detailed analysis and description model for hospital materials management data and tasks, which is able to tackle information from patient requirements to usage, from replenishment requests to supplying and handling activities. The model takes account of medical risk reduction, traceability and streamlined processes perspectives. Second, the paper translates this information into a business process model and mathematical formalization. The study provides a useful guide to the various relevant technology-related, management and business issues, laying the foundations of an efficient reengineering of the supply chain to reduce healthcare costs and improve the quality of care.
Ključne riječi
Hospital Materials Management; Business Process Modelling; Healthcare Information System; Drugs Inventory Management; Healthcare Logistics; Computer Physician Order Entry
Hrčak ID:
160888
URI
Datum izdavanja:
1.1.2013.
Posjeta: 6.313 *