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Monday, April 29 - Wednesday, May 1, 2019

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JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort & Spa, TX

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HEALTHCARE'S GO-TO EVENT FOR INSPIRATION SINCE 2000

The GHX Summit is your annual go-to event for inspiration, networking, learning and best practices. You'll find answers, ideas and strategies that translate to best-in-class business performance. Mix with representatives from both the buy and sell sides of healthcare, from all functions and organizational levels–from strategic to tactical.

Expanding Efficiencies to Finance and Clinical

Beginning this year, your Finance and Clinical teams are encouraged to join us. Exciting new technologies and data management solutions are modernizing and solving for challenges in these critical business functions. Come learn how cost-saving efficiencies are reaching new corners of the healthcare organization.

Nothing compares to the time spent in-person with your peers and trading partners. Together, we deliver healthcare more efficiently.

REGISTRATION | VENUE

Don't miss the largest event for healthcare supply chain leaders

Fee covers sessions, materials, meals (Monday breakfast through Wednesday breakfast) and GHX-contracted shuttle transportation between JW Marriott San Antonio and San Antonio International Airport (SAT) during designated shuttle hours.
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JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort & Spa
23808 Resort Parkway
San Antonio, TX 78261
  • $266/night plus tax and an optional $20 resort fee
  • Available 3 days pre & post Summit, based on hotel availability
  • Deadline to reserve: Friday, April 6, 2019
Room block reservation 

Featured Speakers

Laila Ali

Keynote Speaker

Laila Ali

World-class athlete, fitness & wellness expert, cooking enthusiast, author, and daughter of the late beloved legendary boxer and humanitarian Muhammad Ali
Susan Moffatt-Bruce, M.D., PhD, MBA, FACS

General Session

Susan Moffatt-Bruce, M.D., PhD, MBA, FACS

Executive Director, University Hospital
Professor of Surgery
Professor of Biomedical Informatics
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Ian Morrison

General Session

Ian Morrison

Author, Consultant and Futurist
Session List updated: March 21

Schedule-at-a-Glance

  • Breakfast
    7AM – 9AM

  • Learning Pavilion
    9AM – 3PM

  • Breakouts, Summit20 Talks, Solution Overviews
    8AM – 3PM

  • Evening Welcome Reception
    6:30PM – 8:30PM

  • Registration check-in
    7AM – 3PM

  • Canadian breakfast & Forum
    7AM – 10AM

  • General Sessions
    3PM – 5PM

  • Breakfast
    7AM – 9AM

  • Breakouts, Summit20 Talks, Solution Overviews
    8AM – 11AM; 1PM – 3PM

  • General sessions
    3PM – 5PM

  • Learning Pavilion
    9AM – 11AM; 1PM – 3PM

  • GHXcellence Awards Luncheon
    11:30AM – 1PM

  • Evening networking event
    6PM – 10PM

  • Breakfast
    7AM – 9AM

  • Executive Roundtable and breakfast (by invitation)
    7:30 – 9:30 AM

  • Learning Pavilion
    8AM – 10AM

  • Breakouts & miscellaneous sessions
    8AM – 10AM

  • General sessions & keynote address
    10AM – 12PM

  • Summit close
    12PM

  • GHX-provided shuttles from JW Marriott to airport
    12PM – 4PM

Tuesday night networking event | Knibbe Ranch

TUESDAY EVENING: BIG TEXAS STYLE FUN!

Join us at the Knibbe Ranch (pronounced ka-NIB-bee) for a true slice of Texas! We are taking the Summit to the summit of Texas Hill Country. Join your fellow attendees at this working cattle ranch to enjoy an evening of longhorn steers, Texas tailgate, armadillo racing and boot scootin’! Enjoy sizzling food fresh off the grill and a night cap with s’mores by the campfire. Wear your cowboy attire to feel at home in this big hearted Texas ranch!

Scheduled shuttles to the ranch will leave the 1st floor convention area at 6:00 PM and begin returning at 9:15 PM.

Why Attend

GHX summit network

NETWORK

Build valuable relationships across the industry, with peers, trading partners and GHX

GHX Summit Collaborate

COLLABORATE

Exchange ideas and problem-solve face-to-face with your trading partners, uncovering mutually beneficial ways to save costs and drive efficiencies

GHX summit learn

LEARN

Gain valuable insights from success stories, shared best practices and strategies, demos and solution overviews

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HAVE FUN!

Join your new friends at our fun evening events, with great conversation, food and drinks. Plus, consider extending your stay to enjoy the abundant attractions available in beautiful San Antonio!

Who Attends

All healthcare supply chain stakeholders:

  • Providers
  • Suppliers
  • Distributors
  • GPOs

From every level of the organization:

  • C-Suite
  • Directors
  • Managers
  • Individual Contributors

What's Covered

  • eCommerce
  • Trading Partner Optimization / Integration
  • Contracting / Price Alignment
  • Procurement
  • AP Automation / AR Automation
  • Payments
  • Data Management / Standards / UDI
  • Clinical Integration
  • Business Intelligence
  • Compliance / Credentialing
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Supply Chain Across the Continuum of Care

GHX Awards Program

Top performing, forward-thinking organizations and individuals inspire us every day. These visionaries not only embrace new technologies, change management, and best practices but actively do so collaboratively across their entire organization and with their trading partners.

How does your organization compare? Find out at the GHXcellence Awards Luncheon as GHX announces and honors the cream of the crop for 2018.

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best50
millennium club

SUMMIT 2018 | gallery

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SUMMIT 2018 | Summit20 talks

The Diversity Advantage
UDI: Are We There Yet?
Uncover Impactful Notifications Using Your GHX Data
Making Changes to Modernize Payments in Healthcare
The Value of Making Vendor Credentialing a Strategic Priority
How to Get the Most Out of Your EHR Investment
Trinkets & Trash Debunked -- How Powerful Promotional Brands Change Behaviors
How to be a Smooth Operator... When it Comes to Invoice and Payment Automation
Fine Tune Your Data, Be a Supply Chain ROCKSTAR!
APIs - Using Real-time Data Streaming to Increase Efficiencies in eProcurement
Taking a Laser-focus on Core Competencies with the Help of Managed Services
Adopting New Technologies to Improve Price Accuracy – How Far Along is Your Organization?
Cracking the Code for the Perfect Order
Building Relationships & Trust throughout Your Organization with Consistent Data
It's Not If, It's When... Blockchain Technology in Healthcare
Driving Your Organization to Best 50
Case Requisitioning and Purchase Order Management for Implantables and Consignment
Prioritizing a Vision for Change with Item Content and HCPCS
Population Health Management and Social Determinants in Supply Chain
Do You Think Your Invoice and Payment Processes are Automated? Not so Fast.

WHAT ATTENDEES ARE SAYING

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Hear from Lisa Maxted and Laura Catalini, Hackensack Meridian Health, on the benefits of annually attending the Summit

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Good info in just the right amounts to digest. Nicely done!

— 2017 Summit Attendee

Very informative and inspiring.

— 2017 Summit Attendee

Really enjoyed the entertainment and socializing.

— 2017 Summit Attendee

GHX knocked it out of the park again. Another excellent conference. I appreciate your continued support to collaboratively bring providers and suppliers together. This conference continues to be the most valued conference I attend.

— 2017 Summit Attendee

This was the best Supply Chain Summit I've been to.

— 2018 Summit Attendee

Everything was spectacular!

— 2018 Summit Attendee

Enjoyed all the talks.

— 2018 Summit Attendees

The Summit20 Talks were the highlight of the conference for me this year. There were a lot of informative topics covered that I was able to take back to my team at Health and Hospitals.

— 2018 Summit Attendee

Very informative. Awesome people sharing good information.

— 2018 Summit Attendee

I always really love the Summit20 Talks!

— 2018 Summit Attendee

I think that's the biggest benefit of coming… Just hanging out with people who do the same work you do, and bouncing ideas back and forth. We've solved a lot of problems that way.

— Lisa Maxted, Purchasing Manager, Hackensack Meridian Health

Another part of the GHX Summit that I love is the opportunity to go into the Learning Lab, and talk to the developers so that we can see what's coming… They're always looking to make it better and I think that's another opportunity we have that is a really great opportunity here.

— Laura Catalini, Lead Buyer, Hackensack Meridian Health