The Health Care Value Chain

Producers, Purchasers, and Providers

Burns, Lawton R. / Wharton School Colleagues

1. Auflage April 2002
464 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-0-7879-6021-6

John Wiley & Sons

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Written by Lawton R. Burns and a panel of expert contributors, from
the prestigious Wharton School, The Health Care Value Chain
analyzes the key developments and future trends in the United
States' health care supply chain. Based on a groundbreaking
research initiative underwritten by the industry/university
consortium-- the Center for Health Management Research-- this
important book offers an in-depth examination of how the health
care supply chain helps create value and competitive advantage.

The Health Care Value Chain offers a thorough examination of the
trading relationships among the manufacturers of health care
products, the distributors, the group purchasing organizations, and
the hospital customers and end users of those products. And the
authors show how health care professionals and manufacturers can
work together to form beneficial strategic alliances.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

About the Author.

Part I: Value Chain Basics.

1. The Wharton School Study of the HealthCare Value Chain (Lawton
R. Burns, Robert A. DeGraaff, Patricia M. Danzon,John R. Kimberly,
William L. Kissick, and Mark V. Pauly).

2. Importance of the Health Care Value Chain (Lawton R. Burns and
Robert A. DeGraaff).

3. How the Health Care Value Chain Operates (Lawton R.
Burns).

Part II: The Intermediaries.

4. Role of Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs) (Lawton R.
Burns).

5. Role of Wholesalers and Distributors (Lawton R. Burns and Robert
A. DeGraaff).

6. Threats of Disintermediation Facing Distributors (Robert A.
DeGraaff and Lawton R. Burns).

Part III: The Manufacturers.

7. Pharmaceutical Manufacturers (Lawton R. Burns and Patricia M.
Danzon).

8. Medical Device Manufacturers (Robert A. DeGraaff and Mark V.
Pauly).

9. Medical-Surgical Manufacturers (Lawton R. Burns).

Part IV: E-Commerce.

10. E-Commerce in Health Care Manufacturers,Distributors, and GPOs
(Lawton R. Burns and Robert A. DeGraaff ).

11. E-Commerce and Integrated DeliveryNetworks (IDNs) (Lawton R.
Burns).

Part V: Conclusion.

12. Conclusion (Lawton R. Burns and John R. Kimberly).

Index.

Lawton R. Burns is the James Joo-Jin Kim Professor and professor of Health Care Systems and Management in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also director of the Wharton Center for Health Management and Economics and visiting professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine. Dr. Burns has published extensively on the health care system for the past twenty years.

L. R. Burns, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania