About Healthcare Supply Chain

In his just-released white paper, “Blueprint for an Efficient healthcare Supply Chain”, consultant, writer and former healthcare materials manager Lynn James Everad, CPM, APP, maintains that patient care is at risk unless healthcare systems find new ways to reduce their costs. Improving supply chain efficiency would be a giant step in that direction, Everad noted. Medial Distribution Solutions Inc. (Norcross, GA) published the white paper.

The fundamental problem? “Each link in the chain operates solely in its own best interest with little or no concern for the overall efficiency of the chain”, Everard said.

“On its journey from raw materials to utilization, a product will make only a few stops, far fewer than  in the past”, he predicted. Product prices will be a function of the product’s value to the customer, not simply a function of what the market will bear. And “the ultimate value produced by the healthcare supply chain as a whole (will be) the cost-effective positive patient outcome”. [For more details, refer 

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About Infectious Hospital Waste 

Medical measures always imply a certain risk for complications.  During a stay in hospital the incidence of infections is one of these complications.  Hospital infections impair the patient's quality of life, can be life threatening and apart from that they also cause higher costs for the health systems.

The indisputable progress of modern medicine, in particular in the field of intensive care and transplanting as well as haemotologic-oncological methods of treatment entails also an increased risk for hospital infections.  In many cases the limiting factor is no longer the basic illness that has become treatable at last, but rather an undefeatable infection.

Pertinent literature quotes the frequency of hospital infections to be 4% to 10% of all admissions.  Apart from the personal suffering, the consequences of hospital infections are prolonged stays and increased diagnostic and therapeutic costs, and sometimes even permanent damage or death (Univ. Prof. Dr. H. Mittermayer : o.a. S. 24 ff).

Increased duration of stays in hospitals due to hospital infections ranges between 4 and 30 days.  Estimates about the annual mortality rate due to hospital infections hover around 80,000 for the USA and 40,000 for Germany.  Therefore it is not enough only to treat infectious waste for preventing infections, because staff and patients are already endangered by infectious agents at collection, manipulation and transportation.

Also use hygienic collection, manipulation and transportation systems for Hospital Waste.

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