Healthcare Provider of the Year: HCA


Most Improved Healthcare Provider: BJC HealthCare and Adventist West (tie)


Healthcare Supplier of the Year: Baxter Healthcare Corporation


Most Improved Supplier: Medtronic, Inc.

Healthcare Provider Awards


The GHXcellence Healthcare Provider Awards are based on five criteria that have been proven to help hospitals and other providers achieve value through their use of eCommerce:

• Number of suppliers the organization is connected to via GHX
  
• Percentage increase in connected trading partners
  
• Percentage of business conducted electronically with those suppliers
  
• Product data synchronization with suppliers
  
• Percentage of supply chain processes automated from requisition to payment
  

HCA received the honor for the second year in a row, ranking highest in four out of five categories. The Most Improved honorees were recognized for the progress made in those areas, with BJC HealthCare placing first in the use of electronic invoices and second for data synchronization with suppliers, and Adventist West recording the largest increase in the number of electronic trading partners and its utilization of eCommerce.

Healthcare Supplier Awards



The Supplier of the Year and Most Improved Supplier Awards were judged on criteria identified by hospitals as critical to expanding the amount of business they conduct electronically with vendors. This year’s Most Improved Supplier, Medtronic, Inc., fully supports all 23 GHXcellence standards related to the purchase order (PO) to purchase order acknowledgement (POA) process, as well as the ability of providers to place complex orders, such as consignment orders electronically, and has made additional Medtronic divisions available to providers through GHX.

Baxter Healthcare Corporation was named Supplier of the Year for the second year in a row, followed by Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc. as a close second. Baxter’s accomplishments in 2004 included increasing connectivity with more customers, shortening the time it takes to respond to POAs, and assisting customers with cleansing and correcting their product item masters by frequently updating data in the GHX AllSourceÔ content repository. In the past two years, the percentage of Baxter orders coming through GHX has increased five fold.

About Global Healthcare Exchange

Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX) provides an open and neutral electronic trading exchange, along with complementary products and services, through which buyers and sellers can collaborate to improve efficiencies in the healthcare supply chain. GHX’s catalog and content services improve the accuracy of purchasing transactions, reducing many of the most common and costly problems in healthcare procurement, while the privately held company’s revenue neutral business model is designed to lower costs for all involved. GHX’s owners, strategic partners, and trading exchange participants are representative of the entire healthcare supply chain, including manufacturer and distributors; integrated delivery networks (IDNs), hospitals and ancillary healthcare facilities; group purchasing organizations and their proprietary healthcare trading exchanges; and supply chain technology companies. Equity owners of GHX include Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc.; GE Healthcare; Baxter Healthcare Corp.; Medtronic USA, Inc.; Abbott Exchange, Inc.; Siemens; Becton, Dickinson & Co.; Boston Scientific Corp.; Tyco Healthcare Group, LP; Guidant Corp.; C.R. Bard, Inc.; AmerisourceBergen Corp.; Cardinal Health, Inc.; Fisher Scientific International, Inc.; McKesson Corp.; B Braun Medical Inc.; Premier, Inc. and HCA. For more information visit www.ghx.com.