What are the best practices in master data management in healthcare supply chain?

  1. Establish single source of truth
  2. Standardize naming and attributes
  3. Create strong item governance
  4. Clean and deduplicate continuously
  5. Link local item masters to external reference data
  6. Connect master data to contracts
  7. Align master data with clinical workflow
  8. Maintain parent-child supplier and manufacturer hierarchies
  9. Define data ownership clearly
  10. Use workflow-based stewardship
  11. Measure data quality with KPIs
  12. Build governance across departments
  13. Separate “reference data” from “transactional data.”
  14. Enable equivalency and standardization logic
  15. Design for ERP + EMR/EHR + analytics integration
  16. Treat MDM as the foundation for AI
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