Hospital management must keep the hospital running in a systematic way because the lives are on the stake. One small mistake can cause severe damage to someone’s life. The running of a hospital completely depends upon its management staff and availability of materials, such as lifesaving drugs and equipment. Most of the lifesaving drugs and equipment is available in a hospital depending on the specialty of the hospital in their medical inventory. The medical inventory is a place in the hospital in which all medicines and other usable things are stored. Those things are issued from the inventory and are used by the doctors whenever needed.
The inventory is different from a pharmacy in the hospitals because the inventory contains the materials which are used by the hospital only, and are issued under the authorization of the hospital,whereas the pharmacy is a place from which anyone with a prescription can buy medicines.
FEATURES OF A MEDICAL INVENTORY
The medical inventory is managed by storing various drugs, equipment,and other materials.The list of the various things present in the inventory is listed and uploaded in the data based on online software, which keeps track ofthe inventory. The things which are issued by the inventory authority to any hospital member, the data gets uploaded on the software. Main features of the inventory are as follows:
- The material and medicines are traceable and can be found easily.
- Whenever any drug, equipment or material is used in the hospital from the inventory, the data is uploaded on the software of the inventory.
- The inventory also holds a barcode reader which records the materials online automatically when the material’s stock comes down to a certain level.
Types of inventory in hospitals
- Basic version inventory
- Plus version inventory
