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Decision Support System for Inventory Management in Healthcare Organizations: A Case Study at the Brazilian National Cancer Institute
Antônio Augusto Gonçalves, Sandro Luís Freire de Castro Silva, Roberto Luiz Silva Santos, Cezar Cheng, José Geraldo Pereira Barbosa, Carlos Henrique Fernandes Martins
Nowadays, the great majority of the healthcare organizations has been criticized due to the high costs and low efficiency and are facing a critical situation aggravated by unmet demand and aging population. Availability of medicines is one of the clearest indicators that a healthcare organization is working efficiently. Medicines represent a large portion of the costs in the health services due to the significant value of these products and their storage and control requirements. Shortages of inventory have become a severe problem at the Brazilian healthcare organizations. The purpose of this work is to present the deployment of a Decision Support System which supports real-time inventory control and medicine tracking providing transparency and accessibility of this critical information at the Brazilian National Cancer Institute.
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