Supply Chain Management in Hospital: A Case Study Samuel Toba • Mary Tomasini • Y. Helio Yang San Diego State University‚ San Diego‚ CA It is a common misunderstanding that hospital purchasing is just a functional part of operations rather than a strategic means to achieve financial cost savings. The supply chain process is the essential link for all programs and services offered by a hospital‚ and hence any improvement in managing the supply chain can positively impact bottom line profitability
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Policy changes Like many other hospitals‚ Memorial waited for help to come from the National Guard and the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA). FEMA is expected to provide guidance in natural and man-made disasters‚ furthermore‚ they are not meant to take over situations (Shoup‚ 2005). In advance of the disaster the then Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco wrote to President Bush requesting a disaster declaration to allow federal assistance. The emergency responses were delayed by
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Case Study IV-3 - IT Infrastructure Outsourcing at Schaeffer (A): The Outsourcing Decision Date June 23‚ 2013 Offshore outsourcing‚ the sending of jobs to lower wage countries‚ has become a very popular practice amongst U.S. companies seeking ways to cut back on their operating costs. The idea of outsourcing has made for a highly emotional situation because of two dramatically different effects: it leads to layoffs and dislocations for workers. Well-educated workers in other countries are
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Abstract The team has planned to develop a Hospital Automation System for the well knownhospital called Pannipitiya Nursing Home. Currently the client company depends on an error – prone software system and a large amount of manual work. Development of a new systemwill help the client company to minimize the work load they handle manually and to eliminatethe faults and errors of the existing software system.This proposed system handles the entire hospital work load under seven major functions namely;
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Project Proposal A. General Information SK Hospital Automation software which is planned to develop for the complete computerization of SK Hospital activities. In the first phase of the project‚ Patient management and supply chain modules are handled. During the subsequent phases of the development complete computerization of the hospital will be done including payroll and HR activities. Project Title : Prepared by : Date Prepared: Points of Contact Position Title/Name/Organization
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SOUTHSIDE TEAM CASE STUDY South Street hospital is one of the most popular and patient centric hospitals in the area‚ but they are having issues with customer service due to their call center. A patient was harassed and made to feel as if he wouldn’t be treated unless he brought his payment in full‚ and a doctor in the hospital has also experienced this issue. That experience turned the patient off from coming in for a needed procedure. From what I gather there are three main areas that have broken
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Step 1: Receive medication order via written‚ telephone‚ or through hospital internet system. /Medical Tech‚ or Registered Pharmacist .5 Minute Step 2: Verify and validate order with doctor or hospital. /Registered Pharmacist 1.3 Minute Step 3: Check for duplicates‚ Patients allergic reaction history and current meds to insure no overlapping medications with adverse reactions. /Register Pharmacist 1.4 Minute Step 4: Check drug availability/ Registered Pharmacist 1.0 Minute Step 5: Prepare Prescription
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Logistics Outsourcing: Lessons from Case Studies Aldo Srabotiˇ c Mitja Ruzzier This paper investigates key success factors in logistics outsourcing. A model is used to illustrate outsourcing relationships and then applied to three examples from the logistics sector. The model is presented as a tool which can help managers to minimize the chance of failure by explicitly addressing key issues prior to the implementation of a partnership. In order to fully capture the complexity of the outsourcing
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interlinked.These modules further will contain sub routine modules. The system is specially aimed at catering to the needs of hospitals currently not having any such systems or has over grown their needs over a course of time. Current systems work according to the standard guidelines which do not serve optimally due to absence of services or special extra routines that are not included in‚ which is a big drawback. This makes it necessary for the system stake
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This case study examines the findings for a patient admitted to Littleton Hospital in February 2016. This patient was initially radiographed on February 8th and again on February10th‚ 2016‚ when the radiology department received orders for a portable chest x-ray for an 82-year-old patient in the ICU. Two days prior‚ she had received a chest x-ray‚ post-thoracentesis. At that time‚ the radiologist‚ Dr. Orlin Hopper noted “a moderate right-sided pneumothorax” (2016). Upon review of the second set of
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