Description: Patient-Focused Network Integration in Biopharma : Strategic Imperatives for the Years Ahead, Hardcover by Handfield, Rob, ., ISBN 1466555467, ISBN-13 9781466555464, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK "Preface This book started out as an interesting set of conversations with some very insightful and intelligent people. For twenty-five years, I've studied supply chains in almost every industry, including oil and gas, automotive, electronics, industrialproduction, and even financial services. And every time I met with executives, I met with the same statements: "We're different-- you don't understand." But in the end, after spending enough time with these executives, it became clear that the same principles of supply chain management applied. Perhaps a different context, different terminology, but in the end, the same rules applied. When I started dabbling in healthcare, I originally encountered the same sets of objections. "Healthcare is different," Iwould hear, "After all, you have to consider the patient." But as I spent more and more time with healthcare executives, I only rarely heard the patient mentioned in the discussion. More often than not, the discussion focused on compliance, reimbursement, diagnosis-related groups (DRGs), and other terms that had very little to do with patient care. And as I studied the industry more, it became clear that organizations in the healthcare value chain, from the patient through hospitals, wholesalers, throughinsurance payers, manufacturers, and finally research and development (R&D), were not very well connected at all"--
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Book Title: Patient-Focused Network Integration in Biopharma : Strategic Impe
Item Height: 234mm
Item Width: 156mm
Author: Robert Handfield
Publication Name: Patient-Focused Network Integration in Biopharma: Strategic Imperatives for the Years Ahead
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Taylor & Francis INC International Concepts
Subject: Business
Publication Year: 2013
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 431g
Number of Pages: 200 Pages
