Integration issues in the healthcare supply chain

Spyros Kitsiou; Aristides Matopoulos; Maro Vlachopoulou; Vicky Manthou

doi:10.4018/978-1-60566-356-2.ch036

Integration issues in the healthcare supply chain

Spyros Kitsiou, Aristides Matopoulos, Maro Vlachopoulou, Vicky Manthou

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The efficacy, quality, responsiveness, and value of healthcare services provided is increasingly attracting the attention and the questioning of governments, payers, patients, and healthcare providers. Investments on integration technologies and integration of supply chain processes, has been considered as a way towards removing inefficiencies in the sector. This chapter aims to initially provide an in depth analysis of the healthcare supply chain and to present core entities, processes, and flows. Moreover, the chapter explores the concept of integration in the context of the healthcare sector, and indentifies the integration drivers, as well as challenges.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Handbook of research on information technology management and clinical data administration in healthcare
Editors	Ashish N. Dwivedi
Publisher	IGI Global
Pages	582-597
Number of pages	16
Volume	2
ISBN (Print)	978-1-60566-356-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-356-2.ch036
Publication status	Published - May 2009

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Integration issues in the healthcare supply chain. / Kitsiou, Spyros; Matopoulos, Aristides; Vlachopoulou, Maro et al.
Handbook of research on information technology management and clinical data administration in healthcare. ed. / Ashish N. Dwivedi. Vol. 2 IGI Global, 2009. p. 582-597.

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