title: The time is right for supply data synchronization.
abstract: The healthcare industry faces three major challenges in its effort to adopt global standards for electronic purchasing data. These challenges, and the existing standards that can be used to meet them, are: Identifying customers-the global location number. Classifying products-the United Nations standard product and services code. Identifying products-the product data utility.
authors.affiliation: Coalition for Healthcare eStandards, Ann Arbor, Mich, USA. peggy@chestandards.org
authors.forename: Peggy
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Brody
mesh_terms: D001330:Electronic Data Processing / Q000592:standards*; D011682:Purchasing, Hospital; D014481:United States