Globally the demographic changes together with more sophisticated treatments are expected to lead to a continuous demand for efficiency improvements in hospital operations. Studies indicate that more than 30% of hospital costs relates to logistics and hospitals have started to implement best practices from other industries. Wishes for supporting operational efficiency are expected to change and hospital logistics solutions must be able to adapt to the new situation over time.
Hospital logistic solutions influences several important operational aspects such as delivery performance, time to deliver, flexibility, distribution of workload as well as information accuracy and timelines.
New technology can impact hospital costs, process quality and release time for caretakers to execute other tasks.