2018 News Releases

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

The W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University today announced plans to provide strategic recommendations to the nation’s military to improve patient care for service members. 

ASU is partnering with Active Innovations, Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX), and Expression Networks to develop recommendations for a fully integrated supply chain organization model to include dashboards and simulations. The Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC) research project award will provide $2.4…

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX) opened early registration for the company’s premier industry event, the GHX Summit, scheduled for April 29-May 1, 2019 in San Antonio, Tex. Attendees can save $300 on each registration through February 1, 2019.

The intensive, three-day event, now in its 19th year, offers a wealth of information, expertise, networking opportunities and inspiration for representatives from both the buy and sell sides of healthcare—providers, suppliers, distributors…

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX), a healthcare business and data automation company, today announced it completed the acquisition of a majority of assets and employees of Germany-based Medical Columbus AG. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The acquisition bolsters GHX’s European supply chain and procurement products portfolio to deliver even greater efficiency and value to healthcare providers, suppliers, and group purchasing organizations (GPOs).

"Our mission at GHX is t…

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX), a healthcare business and data automation company, has added two senior executives to support and amplify the company’s growth plans. New executives include Bob McCarthy, senior vice president of Strategy and Corporate Development and Laura Dunbar, senior vice president of Global Marketing.

“GHX continues on a growth trajectory, acquiring three companies in the past four years while also delivering critical new technology to help our…

Monday, October 8, 2018

Driving the next level of innovation in healthcare will require significant collaboration throughout the industry. Today’s healthcare supply chain teams, who possess so much critical data and expertise, and work with nearly every stakeholder in the industry, are increasingly called upon to facilitate the collaboration necessary to attain three familiar healthcare goals: reduce costs, increase efficiency, and improve clinical outcomes. In support of the Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials…

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX) today announced that it has launched a mobile-enhanced Vendormate Credentialing application with new geolocation service capabilities. The mobile application provides healthcare suppliers and providers an efficient and convenient solution that can increase compliance of provider procedures and federal mandates while utilizing industry best practices for vendor credentialing.

The need for advanced credentialing solutions is only growing, according to Adam Josephson, director Product Management, at GHX.…

Thursday, August 23, 2018

Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX) today announced the lineup for its new GHX Summit Series 18, an annual educational webinar series spotlighting some of healthcare’s most accomplished supply chain leaders. Topics for the one-hour webinars were selected from the most popular and highly-rated sessions at the 2018 GHX Supply Chain Summit held earlier this year. The goal of the series is to help attendees drive supply chain excellence through proven…

Monday, August 13, 2018

Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) is presenting on key opportunities for supply chain leaders to deliver added efficiency and effectiveness to healthcare. Attendees of the AHRMM18 Conference and Exhibition, August 12-15, in Chicago, will have the opportunity to learn from GHX on four key topics: using supply chain to manage population health; value-based decision making through data integrity utilizing UDI; supply chain’s role in helping to deliver the organization’s strategic financial…

Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX), a leader in cloud-based healthcare supply chain management solutions, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire a majority of the assets and employees of Germany-based Medical Columbus AG, a provider of healthcare procurement software for providers and suppliers across Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. The acquisition expands GHX’s European supply chain and procurement products portfolio to deliver even greater efficiency…

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX) announced the GHXcellence Award winners at the 2018 GHX Healthcare Supply Chain Summit awards ceremony today in Las Vegas. The awards, presented to provider and supplier organizations for the past 18 years, recognize the leaders and visionaries that are leveraging supply chain automation to remove waste, cut costs and improve patient care. 

GHX selected winners based on a combination of performance metrics and strategic execution…

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX), a healthcare business and data automation company, announced today that it is partnering with Hashed Health, a leader in blockchain innovation for healthcare. The companies will collaborate on blockchain and distributed ledger innovation projects for the healthcare supply chain. 

GHX and Hashed Health share an interest in using blockchain technologies to solve unmet needs across healthcare. Blockchain is widely believed to have tremendous potential to…

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX) announced the 61 healthcare provider and supplier organizations named to the GHX Millennium Club for achieving the highest levels of healthcare supply chain automation. These organizations generate at least one million automated transactions (including advanced order sets, among others) annually through the GHX Exchange, helping to improve the cost-quality equation in the healthcare industry. This year the number of organizations that qualitied for this recognition…

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

The need for data visibility to improve decision making continues to be one of the most important healthcare supply chain outcomes needed in 2018 as identified by some of the most successful supply chain leaders in North America. The results are based on a survey conducted by Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX) with its Best 50 provider organizations on priorities and outcomes for the healthcare supply chain in 2018.

Today,…

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX) has announced its annual list of the healthcare provider organizations being recognized as the 2017 GHX “Best 50” Supply Chains in North America for their work in improving operational performance and driving down costs through supply chain automation. The recipients will be honored at the 18th annual Healthcare Supply Chain Summit, May 7-9, 2018 at Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas.

To select the Best…

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX) announced a new addition to its managed services capabilities, GHX EDI Mapping, providing a cloud-based platform to translate supply chain trading partner transactional information to ERP-specific formats. This new managed service leverages market expertise in EDI mapping to help enable healthcare suppliers connect to customers without the investment in EDI mapping tools and resources. This increases the available number of transacting suppliers in the healthcare…

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX) announced its lineup of general session speakers, with astronaut and U.S. Navy Captain Scott Kelly headlining the upcoming 18th annual GHX Healthcare Supply Chain Summit, May 7-9, 2018 at Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas. Early discounted registration ends February 16, as well as nominations for the GHXcellence Awards where GHX annually honors the top performing and most forward-thinking organizations and individuals.

The healthcare industry…

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX), a healthcare business and data automation company, announced today that it has promoted Tina Murphy to a newly created role of Chief Revenue Officer as part of a reorganization to support the company’s growth plans and enhance customer experience.

“GHX is on a growth trajectory, acquiring two companies in the past four years while also delivering critical new technology to healthcare. Our top priority is…

Thursday, January 18, 2018

Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX) annually honors the top performing and most forward-thinking organizations and individuals through its GHXcellence Awards program. Nominations for 14 different awards will be accepted through February 15, 2018. Winners will be announced at the 18th annual Healthcare Supply Chain Summit, May 7-9, 2018 at Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas.

The GHXcellence Awards blend quantitative and qualitative criteria to honor true healthcare supply chain leaders…