Healthcare Logistics and Digital Transformation

Due to the complex and diverse structure of the healthcare industry, the healthcare industry's logistics practices have lagged far behind sectors such as retail and manufacturing. Therefore, in today's increasingly competitive and risky environment, it is critical for hospitals to improve their logistics management performance, increase the efficiency of health services, and reduce costs. This chapter synthesizes the contributions of healthcare logistics, the impact of medical logistics on healthcare providers, types of healthcare logistics. Addition, this chapter enables us to capture the research challenges associated with the healthcare logistics process, pharma logistics and show how digitalization initiatives can address them.