Hanwen Xue / Chief Information Officer
Perspectives from a life in leadership.
The latest essay
Scanning traceability codes at insurance settlement has moved the discovery of code errors to hospital pharmacies and dispensing windows. Most of those errors are created earlier, when packs are associated with cartons, and distributors should find them there.
Read the essayScanning traceability codes at insurance settlement has moved the discovery of code errors to hospital pharmacies and dispensing windows. Most of those errors are created earlier, when packs are associated with cartons, and distributors should find them there.
Volume-based procurement has cut distributors' margins on the medicines it covers. The usual response, an even cut across the IT budget, weakens the systems the new model depends on. Retiring whole applications protects them.
Suppliers increasingly offer hospitals free hosted services that hold copies of patient-linked data. A supplier rarely needs those copies. Integration should carry the minimum message a transaction requires and leave the record in the hospital.