Planning for advanced EDI operations in materiel management--a case study.
Florida Hospital, a 1,462-bed organization in five locations in the central Florida area, wanted to implement an EDI system that would take redundancies, paper and FTEs out of their system. They hired a consultant to educate them about EDI and help them put together an EDI business plan. They decided to implement three initial transaction sets for a price catalog, purchase orders, and PO acknowledgments. Requesting departments will be able to order routine items directly from vendors via EDI. Future transaction sets will include advance ship notice with price (857) that will generate a receipt off of which the hospital will pay, and electronic funds transfer. Translation and communication software for their mainframe system was chosen to accommodate both the most and least electronically sophisticated trading partners, and negotiations/education on doing business with the hospital via EDI are ongoing.
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Florida Hospital, Orlando.
D000067:Accounts Payable and Receivable; D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004865:Equipment and Supplies, Hospital / Q000592:standards; D005431:Florida; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D008331:Management Information Systems; D008421:Materials Management, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011682:Purchasing, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012107:Research Design; D013597:Systems Analysis