Enhancing hospital supply chain performance through an efficient hospital information System: First insights after a systematic literature review study

In order to make medical information fluid for health professionals and to cope with the ever-worsening complexity of care processes, information and communication technologies come to promote the coordination of health professionals, the optimization of health expenditure through a good organization of care processes and close cooperation to enable better patient care. The aim of this paper is to give a clue of the current worldwide situation of the healthcare information systems (HIS) through a Systematic literature review and how can an efficient information system improve the hospital logistics chain. Method: The authors systematically establish the research through efficient data sources in IEEE, Springer, Elsevier, Taylor and Francis, Sprouts, Google Books, we also used studies of experts of the domain from 2000 until 2018. Results: After Data synthesis, 197 studies met the inclusion criteria and we have defined three main axis of the subject which are: Implementation of healthcare information systems, methodology for evaluating Healthcare information systems, constraints and advantages related to healthcare information systems. Conclusion: Our study takes us to conclude the most relevant points that could a healthcare institution benefits from HIS. Furthermore, we find that most of the research focus on demonstrating the capabilities of HIS and how to implement a HIS, but we observed a limitation in how to evaluate a HIS and how to conduct a success of HIS in non-developed countries such as Morocco in order to improve hospital Supply chain.