SAP Support of the Healthcare Supply Chain

SAP® Support of the Healthcare Supply Chain’s
Ongoing Effort to Ensure Patient Safety and
Drive Business Value
A Detailed Look at SAP’s Support for the Center for
Healthcare Supply Chain Research® Blueprint for
Data Management & Data Sharing

The Center for Healthcare Supply Chain Research (formerly the HDMA Research & Education Foundation) recently published an important study concerning data management and data sharing in the healthcare supply chain. The key conclusions of the study are paraphrased below:

1. The primary goals of the healthcare industry are to ensure patient safety and to deploy processes and systems that are compliant with the various state and federal requirements. To this end, certain data must be shared among trading partners.
2. Industry recognizes the enormous potential business value of leveraging shared data to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of supply chain processes through enhanced visibility. To the extent possible, industry would prefer to leverage the investments made in safety and efficient compliance to also accomplish these business goals.
3. The recommended Blueprint for industry to achieve these goals is to develop a phased approach and architecture that leverages an important new EPCglobal standard for data exchange called electronic product code information services (EPCIS). Download Full PDF File

EPCIS is a standard mechanism for inter-company collaboration and data sharing, which can enable healthcare trading partners to deploy solutions that not only meet the short-term mandates driven by patient safety, but also to lay the foundation for longterm business value. Furthermore, the same infrastructure that is recommended in the Blueprint for data sharing and external collaborative business processes also is applicable to many internal processes, so that companies can begin capturing value from these investments now. Download Full PDF File

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