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abstract

Healthcare supply chain has recently attracted attention by scholars, researchers, government officials and providers as one of the main tools in their effort to manage healthcare cost and improve quality at the same time (Elmuti, et al., 2013). It is reported that healthcare costs in the United States represent a sizeable portion of the gross domestic product and it is expected to increase at a much higher rate than other sectors in the economy. Nevertheless maturity of healthcare supply chain is said behind the commercial supply chain leaving room for improvement (de Vries and Huijsman, 2011). This paper explores strategic areas where healthcare supply chain may enhance efficiency in terms of cost per patient discharge of healthcare operations while improving the quality of care in terms of reducing re-admission rate. This paper argues that fundamentals of supply chain principles should be deployed to create “supply chain community surplus” where resources can be tapped to improve quality of care. Three strategic areas were explored to maximize the provider's revenue; underst.

5. Conclusions

This paper argues that supply chain management can and will improve efficiency (cost reduction) and improve patient care simultaneously by investing resources released from supply chain deployment to other innovative areas where patient care benefits without sacrificing resources for other areas. This paper introduced the basic concepts of supply chain management to healthcare management. Although healthcare supply chain has existed for sometimes, it has not been populated as much as it has in the commercial field. As a result, supply chain surplus and benefits from the healthcare area has not been as much as should be. This paper argues that professionals in the healthcare area ignore the fundamentals supply chain principles and false assumption that healthcare supply chain is different from the rest. Full benefits will be realized once healthcare supply chain professionals recognize and accept that supply chain fundamentals are and should be the same regardless of which industry we are deploying supply chain tools.