HealthLeaders Media April 5, 2022
Christopher Cheney

To be successful, physicians who participate in supply chain must have good communication skills and curiosity about supplies.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

– Formal supply chain roles for physicians include serving on value analysis teams and participating in quality assurance processes.

– Informal supply chain roles for physicians include alerting supply chain departments when products go out of stock and when there are problems with products.

– To communicate effectively with physicians, supply chain leaders should establish relationships with clinicians.

Physicians play a variety of roles in supply chain at hospitals and health systems, a healthcare supply chain expert says.

Eugene Schneller, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Supply Chain Management at Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business...

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