Promise and problems with supply chain management approaches to health care purchasing

Business & Economics

• Supply Chain Management 100%
• Purchasing 98%
• Healthcare 84%
• Medical Errors 27%
• Purchasing Strategy 24%
• Information Exchange 24%
• Integrated Supply Chain 22%
• Health Benefits 20%
• Cost Control 19%
• Employers 18%
• Incentives 18%
• Supply Chain Performance 18%
• Purchase Decision 18%
• Reward 17%
• Health Care System 17%
• Return on Investment 17%
• Quality Improvement 16%
• Safety 16%
• Short-run 13%
• Inflation 12%
• Costs 6%
• Industry 6%

Social Sciences

• health care 90%
• management 60%
• cost reduction 24%
• information exchange 20%
• costs 20%
• inflation 20%
• Health Care System 18%
• purchase 16%
• indication 15%
• reward 15%
• private sector 15%
• employer 14%
• incentive 13%
• industry 10%
• methodology 9%
• performance 8%
• health 8%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Delivery of Health Care 77%
• Medical Errors 20%
• Costs and Cost Analysis 19%
• Cost Control 19%
• Private Sector 19%
• Economic Inflation 17%
• Traction 17%
• Insurance Benefits 16%
• Quality Improvement 15%
• Reward 15%
• Industry 14%
• Quality of Health Care 13%
• Motivation 12%
• Aptitude 10%
• Safety 9%