Healthcare Supply Chain Management: Basic Concepts and Principles

$21.99

According to the health data released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the United States spends more per capita on healthcare than any other OECD country. Currently, U.S. healthcare spending constitutes $2.5 trillion, or 17.3 percent of GDP, with healthcare costs increasing 9 percent annually. To reverse this alarming trend, the Obama administration recently led the effort to dramatically reform healthcare policy, laws, and regulations. This book provides you (whether a healthcare policy maker, hospital administrator, pharmaceutical company manager, or other healthcare professional) with practical guidance for leveraging supply chain principles to better manage healthcare resources and control healthcare costs. It introduces basic supply chain management concepts, terminologies, and tenets. Other included topics are strategic alliances among healthcare partners, value analysis of healthcare services and products, the impact of healthcare reforms on healthcare supply chains, and the development of performance metrics for the healthcare supply chain and benchmarking.

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Hokey Min

Dr. Hokey Min is James R. Good Chair in Global Supply Chain Strategy in the College of Business Administration at Bowling Green State University. Prior to joining Bowling Green State University, he wa…

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Pub Date

October 15, 2014

Pages

100

ISBN

9781606498941

Print Price

$21.99

EISBN

9781606498958

EBook Price

$9.99