Canadian Hospitals Collaborate to Achieve Supply Chain Savings
Canadian Hospitals Collaborate to Achieve Supply Chain Savings
2 PagesA Case Study Case Study Canadian Hospitals Collaborate to Achieve Supply Chain Savings Challenges Following a growing trend toward regional collaboration, Champlain Health Supply Services (CHSS) was created in 2008 to increase supply chain efficiencies and cost savings for a group of hospitals located in the area of the Canadian capital of Ottawa. Under a shared services organization (SSO) model similar to regional services centers in the U.S., CHSS has taken a regional approach to contracting and distribution of medical-surgical supplies. CHSS faced a number of challenges. Only two of its member hospitals were using electronic data interchange (EDI) for significant volumes of transactions with trading partners, and there were seven different information technology (
