A system and related techniques generate and track clinical supply orders,
policies, individual or aggregate consumption and automated billing,
ordering and fulfillment functions via an integrated clinical platform. A
patient supply record may be generated for individual patients which
traces the consumption of surgical, disposable, pharmaceutical and other
supplies throughout a medical encounter or series of encounters or
treatment. Physician supply preferences may be aggregated and analyzed to
derive value leverage, for instance through volume pricing or conforming
department supplies to standard practices. In implementations the supply
selections of a given doctor or department or for specified categories of
procedure may be analyzed in terms of ultimate patient outcomes resulting
from use of those clinical supplies to identify best results and optimize
other aspects of clinical operation. A supply chain engine may
communicate with supply tracking resources to automatically trigger
orders for different supplies, for instance through enterprise resource
planning (ERP) or other channels. In embodiments the supplies and
materials so ordered may be automatically fulfilled or delivered from the
vendor side, for instance based on quantity threshold or closest or most
efficient delivery points.
