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An Empirical Investigation of the Medical Supply Chain and Its Impact on Human Solid Organ Transplantation

Description: The objective of this dissertation is to first identify if there are any academic research gaps in our understanding of the medical supply chain and secondly to understand the role and impact of logistics on the human organ transplant process. The first essay identifies the current status of medical supply chain literature and provides future direction for improving the medical supply chain. This was accomplished by preforming a systematic literature review and a bibliometric analysis from 2,16… more
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Date: December 2023
Creator: Hiatt, Brian Joseph

Role of Additive Manufacturing in Restructuring Supply Chains

Description: Additive manufacturing (AM), commonly known as 3D printing, has been attracting attention from practitioners as well as academicians with its continuous evolution from being used primarily for prototyping to now end-product production. Despite this technology's current and future potential, few studies indicate that AM has not been extensively used across all industries. This dissertation addresses knowledge gaps by providing theoretical and empirical support for adopting AM through three essay… more
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Date: December 2023
Creator: Patil, Himali Kiran
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Understanding the Significance of Patient Empowerment in Health Care Services and Delivery

Description: To address emerging challenges in empowering patients through telehealth, this dissertation has the following objectives: (a) find the key characteristics that enable patient empowerment [PE], (b) determining when will PE work as a solution, (c) find the optimal telehealth care method that enables PE, and (d) evaluate the impact of telehealth on health care outcomes (such as, patient satisfaction, patient trust with primary care providers, etc.) that ultimately enhances PE. These objectives are… more
Date: December 2023
Creator: Bani Hani, Saad Mohammed Fahed
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