Quality Management of Medical Equipment Hospital Supply Chain Based on Game Theory

The need for high-quality medical equipment in the hospital supply chain has more than ever demonstrated the necessity and importance of quality management to be implemented by administrators in line with the Iranian health reform plan. In this study, the Game Theory was used to model the strategies chosen by companies supplying medical equipment to hospitals. Considering the process of self-learning through the Markov chain on the part of medical equipment enterprises involved in market competition, the equipment supply chain environment was simulated. Finally, the importance of reward and penalty system implemented supply chain quality management of medical equipment for hospitals was discussed by analyzing the behavior of the simulated model and calculating the revenues, so as to propel the firms to adopt high-quality strategies.