Providers Flex Clout for Product Identification Standards
Executive Summary
The push for more efficient, cost effective ways to provide health care is a never-ending vigil filled with inherent complications and obstacles to success. However, on close examination, it becomes apparent it is not for lack of good ideas and techniques that improvement efforts are hampered, but rather a lack of uniform clout to force the wide assortment of vested players to come together and agree on a single solution. This has been a chief impediment in preventing the health care supply chain from realizing a standardized product identification system--until now.