What Do The Most Important Experts – Supply Chain Professionals – Think?
While important associations and provider organizations have rallied in support of a GS1-driven solution, the most important evidence of the inevitability of the standard must include a review of the current perception among healthcare supply chain and logistics executives toward this solution. To that point, recent independent university-driven research provides an illuminating look at today’s prevailing attitudes… and current as well as planned actions — among the people most critical to the adoption cycle.

Specifically, in November 2008, the Center for Innovation in Healthcare Logistics at the University of Arkansas in conjunction with the Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM) administered an industry wide survey Continue reading →