E-commerce for healthcare supply procurement
- PMID: 11338910
E-commerce for healthcare supply procurement
Abstract
The total investment of the more than fifty e-commerce startups that entered healthcare supply chain management in the past three years has surpassed $500 million. However, none of these early entrants has delivered on the initial promise of restructuring the entire supply chain, replacing the traditional intermediaries, or at least achieving substantial revenue. This article offers a new business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce solution classification paradigm and uses it to analyze the functional requirements for an effective and, efficient healthcare supply chain marketplace. The analysis exposes several fundamental B2B market complexities that prevent the early entrants from creating a solid customer base and reaching desired liquidity goals. It also identifies several technological solutions to the problems mentioned. These new technologies create a comprehensive and symmetric order-matching engine that is capable of aggregating buy orders, requesting quotes from multiple vendors simultaneously, and negotiating along multiple criteria.
Similar articles
-
E-hubs: the new B2B (business-to-business) marketplaces.Harv Bus Rev. 2000 May-Jun;78(3):97-103, 214. Harv Bus Rev. 2000. PMID: 11183982
-
Supply chain management.Healthc Inform. 2000 Feb;17(2):58-60. Healthc Inform. 2000. PMID: 11321695 No abstract available.
-
Online strategies: e. i? Oh!Contemp Longterm Care. 2000 Nov;23(11):suppl 6-9. Contemp Longterm Care. 2000. PMID: 11188228 No abstract available.
-
The business of emergency medicine: a model for success.Emerg Med Clin North Am. 2004 Feb;22(1):19-45. doi: 10.1016/S0733-8627(03)00115-9. Emerg Med Clin North Am. 2004. PMID: 15062495 Review.
-
Procurement performance measurement system in the health care industry.Int J Health Care Qual Assur Inc Leadersh Health Serv. 2005;18(2-3):152-66. doi: 10.1108/09526860510588179. Int J Health Care Qual Assur Inc Leadersh Health Serv. 2005. PMID: 15974511 Review.
Cited by
-
A study on healthcare supply chain management efficiency: using bootstrap data envelopment analysis.Health Care Manag Sci. 2019 Sep;22(3):534-548. doi: 10.1007/s10729-019-09471-7. Epub 2019 Mar 4. Health Care Manag Sci. 2019. PMID: 30830500
MeSH terms
LinkOut - more resources
Other Literature Sources
Miscellaneous