A CULTURAL CHANGE IN HOSPITAL BUSINESS

(By Verónica Carvajal Tabares) 

3 years ago, a community formed by a network of agents of the hospital area arrived in the colombian hospital business which through web solutions, integrates hospitals with to the production chain of the sector.

This tool creates business opportunities between suppliers and buyers transparently, and fortifies ethical values ​​in relationships.

This platform is called Bionexo, and it´s the largest reference on "market place" of health, contributing decisively with professionalization of the sector supply and market growth. This technology guarantees safety, confidentiality and protection of customer information.

This platform has achieved an important change in cultural mind by purchasing management, where the most important health institutions in Colombia receive offers from over 2,000 suppliers, taking advantage of the solutions offered by Bionexo.

This technology is profitable both, for us like suppliers as for clinics and hospitals sector, because it provides alternatives to improve efficiency, and reduces the waste of time spent on purely operational activities, that don´t add value in the supply chain area of health. Hospitals are benefited by reducing important costs in their internal processes, creating greater visibility for their institutions, and consequently better results that are translated in economy, transparency and innovation.

All of us involved in this chain obtain better results, from the health institutions, the distributor, until the end patient.

The solution is a quick and efficient quote on- line, where suppliers receive quotation requests from health institutions around the country. Each health institution enter the items that they wish to quote, in the required amounts of the different product categories. They establish the specifications, terms of delivery and response time of suppliers. All information is confidential and private, between the supplier and the institution to which they quote.

The advantages of relating to major health institutions in the country through the platform are several:

• It makes automatically links between suppliers and institutional buyers.

• It offers quick view of business opportunities.

• It reduced costs associated with the operation.

• It gives clear and accurate information available.

• It guarantees security of information.

• It´s available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

• It creates dynamic and efficient processes.

• It gives access to all institutional buyers within platform.

This is how this tool or technology has influenced the relationship, between medical suppliers with the almost all Hospitals around the country.