Review on Healthcare Supply Chain

The aim of this paper is to contribute to increased understanding of the health care Supply chain concept and its potential for hospital managers to optimize service delivery cost and improve the processes to combine internal efficiency and effectiveness focusing on the impact of ICT on this field. Thus, this literature review attempts to better understand the "patient-centered" Supply Chain performance across the healthcare environment, and further demonstrate the ICT usage trends in the healthcare supply chain industry, both objectives focusing on the "within" the hospitals domain.