Health Care Supply Chain Management

Catalog description

Examines the variety of organizations that constitute the health sector value chain with an emphasis on suppliers, distributors, IT intermediaries, group purchasing organizations, regulatory bodies, and payers. Key considerations include the design of stakeholder relationships along the value chain and the extent to which business and clinical considerations drive decision making and influence outcomes. Topics include strategic sourcing and contracting, stakeholder incentives and risk across the value chain, physician/professional perspectives and the management of the value chain relationships necessary to achieve high quality, ethical behavior and safe patient care.