The Australian Healthcare Industry Data Crunch Report reveals the impact of inaccurate and inconsistent data across the Australian healthcare industry and the effect on patient safety.
And, the report highlights what it says is unnecessary supply chain spending in the healthcare sector, including procurement, where it estimated $8.8million had been spent on resources to manually check unit of measure data in purchase orders, and an estimated $4.37 million was expended to ship emergency deliveries due to under supply.
The study was commissioned by the healthcare industry with the support of the National E-Health Transition Authority Supply Chain Reform Group (NEHTA SCRG) to focus attention on the need for continuous data quality improvement in healthcare.
Statistical analysis and the identification of key findings were conducted in collaboration with representatives from supplier organisations, health governments, GS1 Australia, the Medical Technical Association of Australia (MTAA), NEHTA SCRG, and the School of Business IT and Logistics at RMIT University.
Mark Brommeyer, Supply Chain Manager at NEHTA said, “With more than 300,000 records currently on the NPC and growing at a steady rate, industry clearly understands the benefit of accurate data across the healthcare supply chain. This report provides the impetus for the next step change in data quality.”
The Chief Executive of the MTAA, Susi Tegen, said that for the Australian healthcare industry to benefit from the findings of the report, it needed to “follow-up with action,” and, she added, “the participants in the study encourage all suppliers and buyers to adopt the NPC.”
According to the report, the Australian healthcare sector is a $120 billion-plus growing industry with an increasing population that needs efficient healthcare supply chain practices.
The report says that bad quality of data has no place in the Australian healthcare community, that the importance of quality product data in the Australian healthcare supply chain is critical to deliver accurate outcomes for patient safety, and an accurate healthcare supply chain data is essential to deliver the right product to the right patient at the right time.
“We already knew anecdotally that inconsistent data has detrimental effects on efficiency and accuracy through the healthcare supply chain globally and this study in Australia has further confirmed this issue through key findings,” said Professor Caroline Chan, Head of School, Business IT and Logistics at RMIT University.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Peter Dinham
Quelle/Source: iTWire, 19.03.2014
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