Supply Chain Summit Standards Sessions:

2a) Getting in Sync with GHX and GDSN Pete Alvarez, Senior Director, GDSN Healthcare; Mike Brown, University Hospital Augusta; Jean Sargent, University of Kentucky Healthcare; Tom Werthwine, Johnson & Johnson; MJ Wylie, GHX
Quality and efficient healthcare depends on accurate and consistent information across the supply chain. The grocery and consumer packaged goods industries have achieved significant and measureable strides in this area by utilizing the Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN). GHX is making it easier for healthcare to realize similar results by creating a GDSN-certified data pool for the healthcare industry. Learn how you can leverage your connectivity with GHX to accelerate the use and value of GS1 standards and the GDSN to healthcare.

2b) Drive New Standards of Excellence in the Order to Cash Process Joe Dudas, Director of Accounting and Supply Chain Informatics, Mayo Clinic; Alex Zimmerman, Director Supply Chain Information Management, Sisters of Mercy, ROi; Corwin Hee, Covidien; Bill Zimmerman, Cardinal; Patrick McCarthy, VP Exchange Services, GHX
The healthcare industry is aware of the value of using GS1 standards for product and location/organization identification (the GTIN and GLN, respectively). Now, progressive organizations are actively working with GHX to define the best methodologies to accommodate the use of those standards in electronic transactions in the order to cash process. Hear directly from providers and suppliers who are developing specific-use cases, and receive documentation on guidelines for use of standards via GHX.

2c) The Global Standard Story: Making Standards Work in a Global Supply Chain Jay Crowley, Senior Advisor, Patient Safety, FDA; Dietmar Hein, PhD, Head Global eCommerce, Siemens; Frank Brueggemann, GHX; Stuart Wooster, Manager, Corporate Purchasing, Aurora Healthcare
As the healthcare industry increases adoption of industry standards, an increasing awareness of issues must be addressed to ensure that both standards and their related systems and processes work on a global basis. In this breakout, industry experts will discuss implications related to regulatory requirements, patient safety and quality of care, and contracting structures.