Challenges and Opportunities of Health Care Supply Chain Management in the United States

Authors

Dean Elmuti, Eastern Illinois University
Grace Khoury, Birzeit University
Omar Omran, Birzeit University
Ahmed Abou-Zaid, Eastern Illinois UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

January 2013

Abstract

This article explores current supply chain management challenges and initiatives and identifies problems that affect supply chain management success in the U.S. health-care industry. In addition, it investigates the impact of health care supply chain management (SCM) initiatives on the overall organizational effectiveness. The attitudinal results, as well as the performance results presented in this study support the claim of health care proponents that the SCM allows organizations to reduce cost, improve quality, and reduce cycle time, and leads to high performance.

Comments

Final version available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07359683.2013.787885?journalCode=whmq20

Recommended Citation

Elmuti, Dean; Khoury, Grace; Omran, Omar; and Abou-Zaid, Ahmed, "Challenges and Opportunities of Health Care Supply Chain Management in the United States" (2013). Faculty Research and Creative Activity. 7.
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/economics_fac/7