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Item An Improvement for the Pharmaceutical Value Chain: Using Lean Methodologies to Create a Patient-Centered Supply Chain(2021-05) Farooqui, SalmanThe pharmaceutical supply chain and medication-use process function to deliver medications to the right patients at the right time. Together, these two segments form the pharmaceutical value chain. The processes of the pharmaceutical value chain have become more complex, with new technology, new types of therapeutics, changing supply chain designs, and stringent government regulations. However, these changes also offer many opportunities for pharmaceutical value chains to increase value for patients. Value is a function of quality, service, and cost; every organization in the pharmaceutical value chain impacts these three variables. The most important variable is quality, since a lack of quality could translate to a medication error that could cause the patient an adverse drug event. To reduce medication errors and resultant adverse drug events, pharmaceutical value chain organizations must consider process improvements with the goal of maximizing value for the patient. Lean methodologies and tools provide an improvement framework that can help achieve greater value. This includes concepts such as continuous, incremental improvement, multi-level employee involvement, experimental thinking, standardization of processes, and error-proofing.Item Using Supply Chain Management Principles to Improve the Organ Donation Process(2018-10-18) Farooqui, SalmanDespite improvements in medicine and technology, the number of people on the national transplant waiting list continues to significantly outweigh the number of viable organs available for transplant. The Organ Donation Process (ODP) has been studied and refined over the past decade, showing a slight increase in the number of successful transplants. However, most studies on improving steps of the ODP focus particularly on demand, i.e. allocation of organs. This study focuses on supply-side steps of the ODP, looking at what can be improved by the Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) and hospital from an operational standpoint. Though Supply Chain (SC) is typically taught in the field of business, many of the same principles apply to organ donation as it itself is a supply chain involving the coordination of multiple parties. This study is a mixed analysis – it pulls information and data from scientific journals, videos, personal interviews, the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), and educational texts on Supply Chain. Based on research, certain parts of the ODP could be optimized in order to boost organ donation rates. Two significant areas that require improvement are (1) the relationship and communication between hospital and OPO workers and (2) the continuous, data-driven education of hospital workers on organ donation processes. Additionally, resource constraints on the nonprofit OPO and the multifaceted hospital must be addressed so that each organization can understand the other’s needs. By considering the organ donation supply chain, areas for improvement can be identified.