Inventory Management...

MHSINC

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Can you accurately forecast departmental and centralized inventory based on patient schedules and consumption?
 
Certainly you can. I have done so with Hospitals in Australia and Thailand. A lot of suppliers will also pro actively manage the inventory for you.

Some inventory is harder to manage of course. Different inventory classes might incluide:

Rotables. Equipment that needs to be rotated in and out of repair / calibration.
Consumables for machine calibration. can be infrequent use and very expensive.
Linen. fairly easy, though surgeons can have some odd preferences for drape sets!
Drugs. In patient and out patient.
Medical devices.
etc etc.

They all have fairly predictable usage rates. Though obviously the type of hospital can have an impact. Routine surgeries v emergency etc.
 
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