Supply chain management in private healthcare organizations

Health is the most important thing for humanbeing. People need healthcare professionals in order to protect and get better their health or live comfortably. Healthcare organizations are established for providing these services. In our country, public and private sectors provide healthcare services. In last decade, new healthcare organizations which is called "city hospitals" are established with public- private cooperation. Private healthcare organizations are established with real person and legal entity. Investment of private healthcare organizations is overcosting. These organizations need to protect and reinforce to their financial structure in order to maintain their existence and sustain their services. Supply chain management is a system which provides product with information and money that need to maintain their production and services. Private healthcare organizations supply to different suppliers that they need to maintaining their services. Organizations prevent waste of labor, time and money which they use mechanism of effective and productive suppy chain management and provide costumer satisfaction with delivery to right product and quantity in right time, right place and right price. Biomedical departmant is one of the most important cost units. One of the biomedical departmant's missions is purchasing medical devices which are very high cost. Supply Chain Management in medical devices is executed very carefully to avoiding unutilised capacity and value creation for organization. This study searches supply chaing management of medical imaging devices in private healthcare organizations. Keywords: Private Healthcare Organizations, Private Hospitals, Healthcare Organizations, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management, Medical Device, Supply of Medical Device.