Material procurement and logistics of hospitals and medical institutions

Medical institutions, logistics management companies

I   Current Status and Future Outlook of Hospital Procurement, Logistics and Outsourcing

1. Influence of standardization of drugs, medical materials, and medical equipments and joint purchasing to the market
2. Diversified patterns of joint purchasing and economies of scale
3. New moves for drug procurement and logistics while facing difficulty of price negotiation and expanding tasks required for hospital pharmacists
4. Procurement and logistics management of medical materials and equipments that acquired the power of hospital managers and doctors
5. Reorganizaton and relationship of supply chain management companies for hospitals
6. Trends in reviewing outsourcing tasks
7. Hospital strategies for purchasing, logistics management, contract conclusion looking ahead of 2025

II   In-hospital Goods and Logistics Management Companies

1. Detailed Profiles of In-hospital Goods and Logistics Management Companies : 22 companies

Brief profiles : 44 companies

III   Hospital Organizations and Groups that had Begun New Procurement and Logistics Management

1. Case Studies of Hospital Organizations

1. Bunkaren (Japan Culture and Welfare Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives)

2. Case Studies of Hospital Groups

1. National university affiliated hospitals (42 hospitals)
2. Saga University Hospital (national university)
3. National Hospital Organization
4. Japanese Red Cross Kyoto Daini Hospital
5. Sendai Red Cross Hospital
6. Secom's Partnered Medical Organization Group
7. Toda Medical Group
8. Social Medical Corporation Jisenkai, Aizawa Hospital
9. Medical Financial Group Foundation Nakayamakai, Hachioji Digestive Disease Hospital

3. In-Hospital Survey on Procurement, Logistics, In-Hospital Goods, and Outsourcing

IV   Moves that may influence Hospital Procurement Reform

1. Medius Solution Company

• Joint purchasing is now supported by software that analyze medical-materials. With doctors advice, the company is standardiziong adopted goods, which would activate the entire market

2. Capital Medica Co., Ltd.

• Expanded trading amount with companies of medical materials, goods and devices.  During the next three to four years, the company is planning to adopt and update image diagnostic machines and medical information systems, which are parts of supporting of construction of five to six hospital buildings.
• The company also engages in the following business: operation of two hospitals in Vietnam, sales of hyperthermia, establishment of medical goods/materials procument business, plans for exporting Japanese-style feeding systems, etc.

V   References

1. Transition of BP in National University Corporations
2. Transition of BP in National Hospital Organizations