Optimization of the cost of medicines and medical supplies in inpatient health care facilities through the implementation of information technology

The theoretical part of this thesis focuses on logistics, its history, logistics chain, and its active and passive elements. In particular, it deals with logistics technology. The aim of the practical part is to describe possible ways of saving the cost of medicines and medicine supplies in inpatient hospitals within the ENT department (in the General faculty hospital in Prague) providing the use of information technology, specialized software applications and changes in healthcare logistics processes. The main aim is to verify the stated hypothesis that the implementation of logistic processes to hospitals can save up to 5 % cost of medicines and medicine supplies. The results confirm the working hypothesis. The second assumption, that the period of return on investments to software will be a maximum of 3 calendar years, was also confirmed by the research. Possible use of this work is for the hospital managers in deciding on the implementation of hospital information technology from Stapro Ltd