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The time is right for supply data synchronization: applying industrywide standards to electronic data processing in the healthcare supply chain can help eliminate problems that arise due to bad purchasing data.(FEATURE STORY)
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Healthcare Financial Management
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February 1, 2007
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The widespread adoption of e-commerce to drive efficiencies in business processes, including those associated with the healthcare supply chain, is one of the most important recent developments in health care. Few would deny the existence of tremendous benefits to be gained by engaging in e-commerce in the healthcare supply chain. Yet health care has struggled to realize those benefits--in large part because of the prevalence of bad purchasing data.
Problems due to bad data are all too common:
* Health procedures may be delayed because supplies or equipment arrive too late, or not at all.
* Patients may be placed at risk because supplies are not clearly or ...