[HISMLS] 12. Material Management
System
Materials Management System (MMS) - correct answer ✔✔Making sure that services go successfully
from one source to an end user—includes several areas of the hospital and could drastically affect
medical institution expenses
Effective Materials Management System - correct answer ✔✔It lessens expenses and ensures adequate
cash flow requires effective management of a large amount of information from several sources
Materials Management Information System (MMIS) - correct answer ✔✔Manage functions like
purchasing, accounting, inventory management, and patient supply charges
- Purchase request
- Purchase quotation
- Purchase order
- Goods receipt PO
- A/P invoice
- Outgoing payment - correct answer ✔✔Purchasing process
Purchase request - correct answer ✔✔First step in the process of purchasing
Purchase request - correct answer ✔✔This is used internally to identify a need for an item
Purchase request - correct answer ✔✔A document which is made by a user to notify the purchasing
department regarding needed items and services
Purchase request - correct answer ✔✔This document specifies quantities, as well as a timeframe for the
items requested
, Purchase quotation - correct answer ✔✔The item could either be ordered directly or a request for a
quotation could be asked from the vendors
- Single quotation
- Multiple quotation - correct answer ✔✔There are many ways to make purchase quotations:
Single quotation - correct answer ✔✔Quotation that can be made manually or out of a purchase
requisition
Multiple quotation - correct answer ✔✔Quotation that the purchase quotation wizard could be used
False (After the vendors respond to the quotations, one could compare the responses in order to choose
the best offer, and then create a purchase order from the chosen vendor) - correct answer ✔✔After the
vendors respond to the quotations, one could not compare the responses in order to choose the best
offer, and then create a purchase order from the chosen vendor
Inventory - correct answer ✔✔One of the biggest expenses for most medical institutions
Inventory control - correct answer ✔✔Plays an important part in refining the quality of healthcare
services, since the lives of the people are on the line, as well as because medical costs are increasing
- Making sure shippers are accurate
- Compliance with regulations
- Establishing buying cycles - correct answer ✔✔Strategies on how to improve inventory control within
healthcare facilities:
Making sure shippers are accurate - correct answer ✔✔Most medical suppliers use third-party shippers,
and the tracking system must ensure that the correct supplies were loaded at the warehouse.
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