title: Towards IHE profiles for e-supply in the healthcare domain.
abstract: Procurement and supply belong to the crucial supporting processes in hospitals. By providing the right products at the right time in the right quantity in the right place, these processes are of major importance for patient safety and the success of the primary hospital process cure and care. Though of such an importance, the hospital's internal and external procurement and supply processes are still not performed seamlessly by information systems, due to a variety of electronic standards for procurement and supply. These different standards and missing guidelines for electronic procurement and supply in the healthcare domain lead to little or no interoperability between the participating procurement and supply systems. Consequences can be delayed or wrong supply, and increased costs. To overcome this deficiency this work describes the derivation of a common guideline for the implementation of electronically enabled supply processes in the healthcare domain based upon the identification of commonly used electronic standards and detailed specifications of procurement processes in hospital facilities.
authors.affiliation: Heidelberg University Hospital, Center for Information Technology and Medical Engineering, Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Gerd
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.affiliation: Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise, German; Deployment Committee, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Georg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Heidenreich
authors.affiliation: University of Applied Sciences Niederrhein, Faculty of Health Care, Krefeld, Germany.
authors.forename: Lasse
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Van De Sand
authors.affiliation: Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise, German; Deployment Committee, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Jose
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Teixeira
authors.affiliation: on behalf of BVMed - German Medical Technology Association, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Alfons
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rathmer
authors.affiliation: University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, Faculty of Computer Science, Dortmund, Germany.
authors.forename: Britta
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Böckmann
authors.affiliation: University of Applied Sciences Niederrhein, Faculty of Health Care, Krefeld, Germany.
authors.forename: Hubert
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Otten
authors.affiliation: Heidelberg University Hospital, Center for Information Technology and Medical Engineering, Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Björn
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bergh
authors.affiliation: University of Applied Sciences Niederrhein, Faculty of Health Care, Krefeld, Germany.
authors.forename: Sylvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Thun
mesh_terms: D004865:Equipment and Supplies, Hospital / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D038622:Internationality; D008331:Management Information Systems / Q000592:standards*; D008421:Materials Management, Hospital / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D011682:Purchasing, Hospital / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D018511:Systems Integration