Health Care Trends (10/2007): Hospital Use of Data Changing the Supply Chain

Executive Summary

As health care increasingly becomes a high-tech industry, hospitals are undergoing a transformation of necessity, and facilities are doing their best to keep up with state-of-the art tools that alter the way business is conducted. When new technology is mentioned, issues surrounding the development of electronic medical records, or the latest medical devices, easily come to mind, but there is something going on in hospital materials management departments that is as important and will have as big an impact on the industry.