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 Healthcare Supply Chain Tooling Project
International Technology Group, Inc. leads the Supply Chain Tooling project within the Open Health Tools open source community.
The Supply Chain Tooling project focuses on design and development of technology enabling creation of Item File Maintenance applications interconnecting healthcare trading partners across the supply chain to synchronize core product data to standard specifications.
These applications provide distribution of standardized product data from manufacturers and distributors to data aggregators and hospitals and enable participants to synchronize and maintain accurate identity, description, and packaging information for medical products.
Project Mission
Design and develop a set of open source tools allowing providers of Supply Chain Solutions for Healthcare and various Healthcare organizations to synchronize and enhance medical product information between all supply chain participants, categorize and attributize medical product information for providing supply chain optimization services to their clients.
Project Scope
Product Catalog Connectors
| Data connectors utilizing B2B, Web Scraping, and Data Mining methodologies for product catalogs published by manufacturers and distributors of medical products to enable rapid synchronization of reliable product information including true manufacturer name, manufacturer catalog number, packaging, description, etc with the Hospital Item Files, Group Purchasing Organization Item Repositories and other healthcare trading partners. |
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Product Categorization Services
| Transformation services to facilitate categorization of products based on the existing and evolving industry standard taxonomies, such as the UNSPSC (United Nations Standard Products and Services Code), GMDN (Global Medical Device Nomenclature), etc. |
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Product Attributization Services
| Transformation services utilizing Artificial Intelligence methodologies for migrating unstructured product data (free text description provided by manufacturer) into structured information consisting of a set of product attributes pertaining to a product category. |
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Reference Implementation
Reference implementation of the medical product data repository providing examples of the data structure and enabling implementation of exemplary tools utilizing data connectors and transformation services.
Methodology
The project methodology utilizes fuzzy logic based on business rules that mimic human intelligence. Medical product data is researched on the Web and other available sources. An extendable framework allows configuration of business rules and enables high throughput with consistent results. |
