Advancing health system integration through supply chain improvement.
Collaboration is a key element to success in the provision of sustainable and integrated healthcare services. Among the many initiatives undertaken to improve service quality and reduce costs, collaboration among hospitals in Ontario has been difficult to achieve; however, voluntary collaboration is vital to achieving transformation of the magnitude envisioned by system leaders.
Healthcare Materials Management Services, London, Ontario. mike.rosser@sjhc.london.on.ca
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D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D017046:Cost Savings; D006750:Hospital Distribution Systems; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006755:Hospital Shared Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D007445:Inventories, Hospital; D007857:Leadership; D008421:Materials Management, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009864:Ontario; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D011682:Purchasing, Hospital; D017751:Safety Management