Towards resource pooling in cooperative health care networks: Case of medical supply centralization

Author

Essoussi, I.E. ; Ladet, P.

Author_Institution

GIPSA-Lab., INPG, St. Martin d´Heres, France

fYear

2009

fDate

6-9 July 2009

Firstpage

600

Lastpage

605

Abstract

Currently, health care providers are competing in a consumer market under financial pressure and resources shortage. Thus, hospitals begin to form networks and develop more logistic cooperation between them in order to maximize the output/ throughput. In this paper, we study the case of the centralization of medical supplies in a French health care network. We analyze the potential gains of such cooperative scheme through multi criteria optimization approach associated to an integrated inventory- location- allocation problem. A procedure of three steps is suggested to solve the whole problem.

Keywords

biomedical equipment; health care; inventory management; resource allocation; French health care network; consumer market; cooperative health care network; cooperative scheme; financial pressure; health care provider; integrated inventory-location-allocation problem; logistic cooperation; medical supplies; medical supply centralization; multicriteria optimization; resource pooling; resource shortage; Hospitals; Indium phosphide; Logistics; Medical services; Pharmaceuticals; Process planning; Production planning; Resource management; Supply chains; Throughput; cooperation; health care netork; inventory centralization; multi criteria optimization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2009. CIE 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Troyes

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4135-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4136-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCIE.2009.5223749

Filename

5223749