Hospitals Need To Drive Standardization Effort For E-Procurement
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Hospitals should take the lead in developing product standards for e-commerce in order to make the transition to web-based medical supply procurement a smoother one, according to market researchers.
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