Ongoing Research Projects

Health Information Technology for Supply Chain Management: Best Practices and Implications for Hospitals and Health System Performance.
Principal Investigator: Michael Furukawa

The specific aims of this research study are to examine the implications of health IT for supply chain management in U.S. hospitals and health systems. The study is specifically looking at how supply chain IT is being adopted and used; to what extent supply chain IT reduces hospital supply expenses; how supply chain IT affects costs and use of physician preference items; and how supply chain IT affects standardization of supplies within health systems.