Collaboration between HIT and Bnei Zion Hospital

Dr. Mali Sher, a lecturer at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Technology Management, takes part in an innovative process to improve inventory control and the distribution of designated drugs in day hospitalization

The project’s researchers

Every month, about a thousand unique drug treatments are given to day patients at the Emek Medical Center through the use of subsidized drugs - drugs purchased by health insurance funds and delivered, free of charge, to hospitals for the benefit of their patients. These biological medicines require individual approval before being administered to ensure patient safety.

This process, which includes manual checking of the certificates and their daily recording in data files, significantly burdens the medical staff and leads to frequent errors. In addition, it harms the quality of service provided to the many patients who come daily.

That's why the Emek Hospital and the Holon Institute of Technology (HIT) initiated a collaboration to optimize this process significantly. The project's leader on behalf of HIT is Dr. Mali Sher from the Faculty of Industry and Management, along with Hadas Shaf, a senior pharmacist from Bnei Zion Hospital.

The project aims to complete the transition to digital management of the entire supply chain and allocate designated drugs. The researchers will define the system requirements for this purpose, emphasizing maximum simplicity and efficiency. They will also suggest the best way to implement it in the field.

Implementing the system is expected to yield significant improvements in various aspects:

• A substantial reduction in the burden on the staff
• Saving expenses
• Increasing the safety of the treatments
• Improving the service to patients

Since the problem exists in all hospitals throughout the country, the solution could also be adapted to other medical institutions in the future, thus leading to a technological breakthrough in the Israeli health system.

Posted: 04/01/2024