Clinically integrating a supply chain improves quality and lowers costs, according to Vizient, a healthcare management consulting company.
Vizient shared the following supply chain tip on their blog:
"Clinical-supply integration is designed to ensure that device and supply decisions reside with physicians and to drive out unwarranted clinical variation. To accomplish this, physicians must be informed by actual costs, followed by an understanding of how their device and supply decisions impact cost and quality.
When a supply chain is clinically integrated, an overarching structure, either formal or informal, connects data from a physician and case or procedure data with clinical and financial outcomes. The results are lower costs and higher quality, two benefits worth the efforts of clinically integrating your supply chain."