An Acquisition Support System for Public Healthcare — Case Study of the U.S. Children Vaccine Program

DOI

10.2991/cisia-15.2015.232How to use a DOI?

Keywords

decision support; multiple criteria; transportation; public healthcare

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the existing federal acquisition policy in public healthcare in the United States, especially in the case of childhood immunization, and then propose a new multiple items multiple vendors model to accomodate these criteria, with the objectives of lowering costs including transportation and wastage. It develops an integrated spreadsheet based software to collect data with an automated web based scraper/crawler that allows to: forecast demand, analyze vendors, estimate overall cost and provide useful information for decision makers. This study uses the case of children’s immunization vaccines as an example to illustrate its contribution. . The proposed system also addresses the challenge of implementing the new government recommended immunization requirements in a cost effective manner. In addition, the new acquisition decision support system enhances the transparency of healthcare costs, especially in the public health service.

Copyright

© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - H.B Wang
AU  - W. Wang
AU  - Da Huo
AU  - Jaime Oritz
AU  - Y.Q Xu
PY  - 2015/06
DA  - 2015/06
TI  - An Acquisition Support System for Public Healthcare — Case Study of the U.S. Children Vaccine Program
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Information Systems and Industrial Applications
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 865
EP  - 868
SN  - 2352-538X
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DO  - 10.2991/cisia-15.2015.232
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