Excerpt from Strategies for Electronic Integration: From Order-Entry to Value-Added Partnerships at Baxter
Preemptive Penetration of Hospitals. Ahsc's major initiative in the marketplace was the aggressive penetration of the hospital community with asap to gain relative competitive edge over other suppliers. In the 19605 and early-to-mid 19705, hospitals were moving from a focus on service level quality to a focus on service level quality and cost. This period was marked by a major increase in the demand for hospital services, due in large part to the passage of Medicaid and Medicare legislations in 1965 and 1966. By 1971, hospital care was the fastest growing component of health spending, largely attributable to greater government funding and sales of medical supplies and equipment that were growing at 10% annually (standard 8: Poor, 1971; June 24, Indeed, over the period 1970-1987, industry sales grew at over 16% compound average nominal rate, with total sales moving from billion in 1970 to billion in 1986.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book analyzes the evolution of Baxter International's Analytical Systems Automated Purchasing (ASAP), one of the earliest and most successful supplier-to-customer electronic linkages in the industry. The author adopts an evolutionary perspective to describe the transformation of ASAP into a strategic information system that has helped Baxter reshape the competitive characteristics of the hospital services marketplace. This book argues that the evolution of ASAP best viewed in terms of two distinct eras encompassing three phases: localized experimentation, organizational assimilation, and competitive jockeying. The first era is characterized by the automation of order-entry and service level reporting processes, the second by the movement towards an electronic hierarchy and then towards electronic markets. The author concludes by discussing the changing business roles in the healthcare industry, highlighting the shift from traditional supplier-customer relationships towards strategic partnerships. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Seller Inventory # 9780243135158_0
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