This study presents an analysis of portable equipment management in hospital environments. Consid... more This study presents an analysis of portable equipment management in hospital environments. Considering the significant amount of personnel time for equipment search, this research investigates management models, tracking activities, and technology involvement in equipment management. A simulation-based decision support tool is developed to analyze the different processes and the impact of RFID technology on the widely-adopted organizational systems: centralized, semi-centralized and decentralized. The three organizational systems are analyzed with equipment management supported by either RFID or no technological framework. Using the search time for an item as a performance measure, the better systems as well as the improvable ones are identified.
This paper presents the challenges and benefits associated with adoption of healthcare supply cha... more This paper presents the challenges and benefits associated with adoption of healthcare supply chain data standards in a hospital environment. In a highly fragmented industry like healthcare with several stakeholders, the adoption and use of common data standards for identifying delivery locations and products is critical. Common data standards ensure system wide interoperability and visibility across the supply chain, contributing to improvements in patient safety and streamlined internal and external supply chain operations. However, the global healthcare industry has been significantly slow in adopting data standards in comparison to other industries like retail, manufacturing. We discuss the results from data standard adoption pilot project conducted by Center for Innovation in Healthcare Logistics (CIHL), University of Arkansas at Washington Regional Medical Center, a 325 bed not-for-profit hospital in Fayetteville, Arkansas. CIHL data standards pilot involved studying the existing supply chain processes, design, pilot-test, and evaluation of GS1 data standards adoption over a sample of products and a single delivery location at the hospital. We present the results, which demonstrate the capabilities of systemwide improvements and roadblocks likely to be encountered. Findings from the pilot can be expanded to develop a broad implementation plan of data standards adoption for healthcare providers.
The use of GS1 data standards is envisioned to improve the efficiency of healthcare supply chain,... more The use of GS1 data standards is envisioned to improve the efficiency of healthcare supply chain, as it did for retail. Care providers willing to adopt such a strategy in some or all of their operations often need to invest in process changes and technological installations or upgrades; however, they struggle to project returns on those investments and hence, find uncertain ROI a barrier to adoption. We present a hierarchical comprehensive model that helps potential adopters of various parts of the standards (what we term levels) evaluate their readiness requirements and quantify the impacts of their potential decisions in terms of non-monetary performance measures, such as productivity. The model design is showcased through practical examples.
This study presents an analysis of portable equipment management in hospital environments. Consid... more This study presents an analysis of portable equipment management in hospital environments. Considering the significant amount of personnel time for equipment search, this research investigates management models, tracking activities, and technology involvement in equipment management. A simulation-based decision support tool is developed to analyze the different processes and the impact of RFID technology on the widely-adopted organizational systems: centralized, semi-centralized and decentralized. The three organizational systems are analyzed with equipment management supported by either RFID or no technological framework. Using the search time for an item as a performance measure, the better systems as well as the improvable ones are identified.
This study presents an analysis of portable equipment management in hospital environments. Consid... more This study presents an analysis of portable equipment management in hospital environments. Considering the significant amount of personnel time for equipment search, this research investigates management models, tracking activities, and technology involvement in equipment management. A simulation-based decision support tool is developed to analyze the different processes and the impact of RFID technology on the widely-adopted organizational systems: centralized, semi-centralized and decentralized. The three organizational systems are analyzed with equipment management supported by either RFID or no technological framework. Using the search time for an item as a performance measure, the better systems as well as the improvable ones are identified.
This paper presents the challenges and benefits associated with adoption of healthcare supply cha... more This paper presents the challenges and benefits associated with adoption of healthcare supply chain data standards in a hospital environment. In a highly fragmented industry like healthcare with several stakeholders, the adoption and use of common data standards for identifying delivery locations and products is critical. Common data standards ensure system wide interoperability and visibility across the supply chain, contributing to improvements in patient safety and streamlined internal and external supply chain operations. However, the global healthcare industry has been significantly slow in adopting data standards in comparison to other industries like retail, manufacturing. We discuss the results from data standard adoption pilot project conducted by Center for Innovation in Healthcare Logistics (CIHL), University of Arkansas at Washington Regional Medical Center, a 325 bed not-for-profit hospital in Fayetteville, Arkansas. CIHL data standards pilot involved studying the existing supply chain processes, design, pilot-test, and evaluation of GS1 data standards adoption over a sample of products and a single delivery location at the hospital. We present the results, which demonstrate the capabilities of systemwide improvements and roadblocks likely to be encountered. Findings from the pilot can be expanded to develop a broad implementation plan of data standards adoption for healthcare providers.
The use of GS1 data standards is envisioned to improve the efficiency of healthcare supply chain,... more The use of GS1 data standards is envisioned to improve the efficiency of healthcare supply chain, as it did for retail. Care providers willing to adopt such a strategy in some or all of their operations often need to invest in process changes and technological installations or upgrades; however, they struggle to project returns on those investments and hence, find uncertain ROI a barrier to adoption. We present a hierarchical comprehensive model that helps potential adopters of various parts of the standards (what we term levels) evaluate their readiness requirements and quantify the impacts of their potential decisions in terms of non-monetary performance measures, such as productivity. The model design is showcased through practical examples.
This study presents an analysis of portable equipment management in hospital environments. Consid... more This study presents an analysis of portable equipment management in hospital environments. Considering the significant amount of personnel time for equipment search, this research investigates management models, tracking activities, and technology involvement in equipment management. A simulation-based decision support tool is developed to analyze the different processes and the impact of RFID technology on the widely-adopted organizational systems: centralized, semi-centralized and decentralized. The three organizational systems are analyzed with equipment management supported by either RFID or no technological framework. Using the search time for an item as a performance measure, the better systems as well as the improvable ones are identified.
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