Research Article
Big Data Enabled Healthcare Supply Chain Management: Opportunities and Challenges
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-94180-6_21, author={Shoayee Alotaibi and Rashid Mehmood}, title={Big Data Enabled Healthcare Supply Chain Management: Opportunities and Challenges}, proceedings={Smart Societies, Infrastructure, Technologies and Applications. First International Conference, SCITA 2017, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, November 27--29, 2017, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={SCITA}, year={2018}, month={7}, keywords={Big data Data analytics Healthcare Supply chain management}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-94180-6_21} }- Shoayee Alotaibi
Rashid Mehmood
Year: 2018
Big Data Enabled Healthcare Supply Chain Management: Opportunities and Challenges
SCITA
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-94180-6_21
Abstract
It is estimated that healthcare spending in the world’s major regions will increase from 2.4% of GDP to 7.5% during 2015 to 2020. Healthcare providers are required to deliver high quality medical services to their customers. Since most of their budgets are spent on high cost medical equipment and medicines, there is a pressing need for them to optimize their supply chain activities such that high-quality services could be provided at lower costs. Relatedly, medical equipment and devices generate massive amounts of unused data. Big data analytics is proven to be helpful in forecasting and decision-making, and, hence, can be a powerful tool to improve healthcare supply chains. This paper presents a review on the use of big data in healthcare supply chains. We review the various concepts related to the topic of this paper including big data, big data analytics, and the role of big data in healthcare, and in healthcare supply chain management. The opportunities and challenges for big data enabled healthcare supply chains are discussed along with several directions for future developments. We conclude that the use of big data in healthcare supply chains is of immense potential and demands further investigation.
