GHXcellence Awards

GHXcellence Awards recognize supply chain leaders that are driving savings and efficiency for their organizations, their trading partners and the healthcare industry through automation and best practices.

Rookie of the Year - Provider

This award recognizes a provider that has been on the GHX Exchange less than 2 years and has demonstrated its ability to accelerate time-to-value in critical areas that drive supply chain performance.

Criteria considered

Note: Nominees are not required to meet all these criteria, nor are they limited to these. This criteria defines the range of accomplishment considered for this award. 

  • Level of procure-to-pay/order-to-cash automation
  • Electronic trading partner enablement
  • Percent of orders placed/received through the Exchange
  • Use of a range of electronic transaction sets
  • Team engagement, training and certification
  • Speed of implementation
  • GHX product utilization

Nominations should include supporting documentation whenever possible. 

2018 Winner: Lafayette General Health System, Inc.​

2018 - Rookie of the Year - Provider (Lafayette General Health System, Inc.​)
  • Over the course of two years, Lafayette General Health System underwent a radical transformation – from largely manual processes (only 15 EDI vendors) and no visibility into contract price exceptions, to an automated procure-to-pay process with 202 EDI vendors, and real time contract price exception visibility.
  • The organization has driven down its part number exception rate from 39 percent to 3 percent, and unit of measure (UOM) exception rate from 50 percent to 4 percent.
  • Today, 95 percent of purchase orders (PO) are confirmed, which reduces the amount of time buyers spend following up on orders. Lafayette General Health System has also made tremendous progress in matching purchases to contracts, increasing its “hit rate” from 20 percent up to 65 percent.
2017 - Tampa General Hospital
2017 Winner -
Tampa General Hospital
2016 Rookie of the Year - Provider
2016 Winner -
Rush University Medical Center
2015 - Rookie of the Year
2015 Winner -
Health Sciences North