Group purchasing of food items maintains quality, cuts costs.
Hospital food group purchasing programs face problems that other kinds of group purchasing programs don't have. HARICOMP, a not-for-profit hospital shared services corporation, helped a group of Rhode Island hospitals solve some of these problems by using computers. The computers eliminate much of the time-consuming effort involved in making price comparisons, holding sales meetings, and doing paperwork.
D003201:Computers; D003363:Cost Control; D005521:Food Service, Hospital / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006755:Hospital Shared Services / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011682:Purchasing, Hospital / Q000379:methods*; D012237:Rhode Island