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May
25
2020
Will collaboration become a new standard operating procedure?
Healthcare Purchasing News
In late March, as COVID-19 had taken hold of New York City and the surrounding area, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called on hospitals across the state to...
May
18
2020
Despite the changes and uncertainty rippling across the entire venture-backed startup ecosystem, the digital health sector saw its best first quarter since analysts began tracking...
Apr
29
2020
In December 2019, the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response told a House committee that “supply chain issues were among the most significant challenges to...
Apr
24
2020
Ventilator drug shortage concerns Bay Area healthcare workers fighting COVID-19
KRON-TV (San Francisco)
We’ve been hearing about shortages on personal protective equipment or PPE and ventilators. Pharmacists are now sounding the alarm on a possible shortage of...
Apr
22
2020
Critical care in critical times
Healthcare Purchasing News
Most U.S. healthcare organizations have disaster preparedness plans in place to address infectious disease outbreaks, man-made or natural disasters, bioterrorism or other events that result in a surge in...
Apr
22
2020
How COVID-19 fosters collaboration and creativity
Healthcare Purchasing News
When I sat down in early March to write the April edition of Standard Practices on the role of standards to support supply continuity, I knew we were facing serious shortages, but admittedly, I did not yet fully appreciate the...
Apr
15
2020
The Association for Health Care Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM) is collaborating with GHX using the same tools, expertise and processes leveraged by...
Apr
13
2020
Coronavirus response requires integrated Supply Chain Management — not just Spend Management. Here’s what’s needed.
Spend Matters
Procurement professionals, like any other, are affected by the current coronavirus pandemic. They will face many challenges in their supply chains. For those who operate within industries where physical...
Apr
08
2020
The Global Healthcare Exchange offers medical product manufacturers assistance in getting critically needed supplies to market quickly. Healthcare providers responding to the COVID-19 crisis need...
Apr
04
2020
Colorado companies scramble to fill COVID-19 shortages of vital supplies for medical personnel
Broomfield Enterprise
As the nation’s supplies of N95 respirator masks, gloves, gowns and other personal protective equipment run critically low, health care providers, suppliers and business leaders in Colorado...
Mar
25
2020
Since the early stages of the coronavirus outbreak, healthcare industry experts have projected that shortages of supplies such as personal protective equipment and ventilators could endanger...
Mar
24
2020
GHX Offers Sourcing Alternatives for Critical Supplies
Healthcare Purchasing News
In response to COVID-19, GHX and Lumere are providing resources online to help ensure that their customers receive access to the data and...
Mar
23
2020
How standards support supply continuity
Healthcare Purchasing News
Significant disruptions in the healthcare supply chain, whether from natural disasters, major recalls, or more recently the impacts of...
Mar
09
2020
A Nod To The Past Can Help Define Healthcare's Future
Forbes | Technology Council
In 1970, healthcare spending represented 6.9% of U.S. GDP. Last year, findings from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services showed healthcare spending in the U.S. was expected to reach...
Feb
24
2020
The Potential of AI in the Healthcare Supply Chain
Supply Chain Brain
There’s no shortage of enthusiasm — or predictions — about the potential use of artificial intelligence (AI). Grand View Research estimates the global AI market will grow at a compound annual rate of...
Feb
24
2020
From regulation to recalls: Why implant informatics matter
Healthcare Purchasing News
One of the primary purposes of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) unique device identification (UDI) rule was to improve...
Feb
17
2020
Inspirational Women in STEM and Tech: Tina Vatanka Murphy, Chief Revenue Officer for GHX
Authority Magazine
One of the more damaging myths is that to succeed women need to adopt a male persona. Western society often assigns strength, courage, independence, leadership, and assertiveness as...
Feb
10
2020
Advanced Healthcare Supply Chains: Why It’s All in the Data
HIT CONSULTANT
During the past decade, the healthcare industry has undergone an unprecedented technological transformation. The industry, once defined by...
Jan
24
2020
5 Technologies That Are Poised to Disrupt the Healthcare Supply Chain
Health Data Management
The supply chain has carved out a critical role for itself as the healthcare industry shifts to a value-based...
Jan
23
2020
Supply Chain & IT: Collaboration at First Byte?
Healthcare Purchasing News
Supply Chain and Information Technology (the IT department) consistently have engendered a love-hate relationship. To succeed...
Jan
13
2020
Global Healthcare Exchange Inc. has acquired Chicago-based Lumere Inc., a provider of data and analytics solutions that enable health-care organizations to build clinically integrated...
Dec
05
2019
Cloud-Based ERPs Support the Path to Value-Based Care
Supply & Demand Chain Executive
Healthcare IT leaders have spent the last decade primarily focused on critical investments related to clinical quality improvements—including implementing electronic health records (EHRs), adopting ICD-10 and...
Nov
22
2019
Supply Chain’s latest Elite bring ‘A’ game to data, clinical, process management
Healthcare Purchasing News
There’s a common theme – or maybe several common threads – interwoven among the mini-profiles of this year’s...
Oct
23
2019
The move to a healthcare system that rewards the value delivered to patients vs. the volume of services performed is no easy task. Healthcare providers, including hospitals and physicians, face decreasing reimbursements as both...
Oct
03
2019
TransForm SSO: Improving Ontarian Healthcare through Supply Chain Innovation
Supply Chain Digital
TransForm Shared Service Organization (TransForm SSO) provides an innovative, end-to-end supply chain service driven through one vital goal: offering healthcare employees the support...
Oct
01
2019
Supply Chain Talent Has No Walls
Supply chain Strategies & Solutions
As healthcare continues to evolve, so too, do the talent requirements for supply chain organizations. The AHRMM Cost, Quality, Outcomes (CQO) Movement arose out of a recognition that...
Oct
01
2019
The Health-Care Supply Chain Leaves the Building
Inside Supply Management
Two powerful forces are transforming the health-care supply chain: Value-based reimbursement and consumerism. Both are responsible for a sizable shift in where care is delivered...
Sep
23
2019
Inverting Supply Chain Mindsets with Future-ready Thinking
Healthcare Purchasing News
Executives and professionals in healthcare supply chain gaze somewhat longingly at other industries for glimpses at what might emerge within their realm of,,,
Aug
29
2019
Revealed: DBJ's C-Suite Awards Winners for 2019
Denver Business Journal
Denver is home to some of the most exciting companies in the U.S., and it has the executives to match: They are driven, innovative and constantly setting new...
Aug
28
2019
How predictive analytics will impact the supply chain in the 2020s
Health Data Management
The healthcare supply chain continues to be at a pivotal juncture, taking increased advantage of innovative technology to deliver affordable value-based care by...
Aug
12
2019
Health care spending in the United States is on track to hit 19.4% of GDP in the next decade, giving our country the dubious top spot globally for...
Aug
05
2019
Solving Pricing Challenges in Healthcare
Supply Chain Brain
Contract price misalignment is one of the leading causes of pricing issues in the healthcare supply chain, and among the most critical issues...
Jul
23
2019
Can standardization drive innovation?
Healthcare Purchasing News
Many consider “standardization” and “innovation” to be opposing forces, when in fact standardization might just be what is needed to effectively innovate around healthcare delivery and payment reform.
Jun
20
2019
Healthcare: How to Thrive in the M&A Era
CIO Review
Acquisitions and mergers continue unabated in healthcare. Pricewaterhouse Cooper's latest report on mergers and acquisitions in healthcare found the number of...
Jun
19
2019
The Surprising Truth Behind UDIs and Recall Management
Healthcare Purchasing News
When the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published the UDI rule in 2013, it listed the ability to “provide for more rapid, more efficient resolution of device recalls” as a primary driver for...
Jun
05
2019
Payables: The Last Mile in the Healthcare Supply Chain
Supply Chain Brain
The majority of healthcare payment processes remain paper-intensive, despite electronic payments being the most efficient and cost-effective B2B payment...
Jun
04
2019
How the Supply Chain Can Support Shifts in Care Sites
Health Data Management
The United States spends more on healthcare than any other industrialized nation, and the continued growth in healthcare spending is creating economic pressures not only...
Jun
01
2019
UDI success requires more than product standardization
Healthcare Purchasing News
Last month’s column focused on how those working on UDI regulations have broadened their focus beyond the US, as countries and regions...
Jun
01
2019
Are you willing to bear the standards?
Healthcare Purchasing News
Logically, the use of data standards would make transactions so much easier to track and trace, as well as facilitate detailed analysis...
May
01
2019
GHX honors healthcare leaders at 19th Annual GHXcellence Awards
Healthcare Purchasing News
Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX) on April 30 announced the recipients of its annual GHXcellence Awards during...
Apr
25
2019
U.S. Passes the UDI Baton
Healthcare Purchasing News
For years, the eyes of the world were on the United States as it became the first country to publish and implement a regulation requiring...
Apr
10
2019
How the cloud will address healthcare’s procurement challenges
Health Data Management
The supply chain has been an increasingly important driving force in the healthcare industry’s transformation. During the past decade, the focus on...
Mar
20
2019
Value-based healthcare starts with standard definitions
Healthcare Purchasing News
Depending on whom you talk to, the move to value-based healthcare is driven by a high-level societal objective and a fiscal imperative to deliver the highest value to...
Mar
19
2019
It’s hard to believe that after nearly a decade of embracing HIT, the U.S healthcare industry still has its share of technological growing...
Mar
08
2019
Leveraging Healthcare’s Shift to Value
Chief Executive
Thanks to the enactment of the Affordable Care Act in 2010—as well as other major legislative efforts—the healthcare industry is...
Feb
28
2019
A New Approach to Healthcare’s Age-Old Supply Chain Problems
Supply Chain Brain
The healthcare industry is going through unprecedented change. The supply chain has been a powerful force, and at times a leader, in driving this...
Feb
28
2019
Supply chain tip: Build a diverse team
Becker’s Healthcare Review
While technology and automating supply chain processes has played an important role in driving change in the healthcare supply chain, more needs...
Feb
26
2019
Early collaboration reduces product variation
Healthcare Purchasing News
Hospitals and healthcare systems around the world are prioritizing the need to reduce clinical variation, as they recognize what quality gurus across many...
Feb
22
2019
Introducing Supply & Demand Chain Executive's 2019 Pros to Know
Supply & Demand Chain Executive
Supply & Demand Chain Executive announces its annual listing of Pros to Know in the supply chain...
Jan
31
2019
Pursuit of Value, Good Data Underlie Healthcare Supply Chain Trends in 2019
Supply Chain Brain
The continuing pursuit of value-based healthcare is at the crux of many of the trends that will impact the healthcare supply chain in 2019. Look a little deeper and...
Jan
23
2019
Got Class(ification)?
Healthcare Purchasing News
A common complaint about standards in healthcare is that there are simply too many, which includes classification systems for...
Jan
23
2019
GHX Shortlisted for HSJ Healthcare Partnership Awards 2019
Global Banking & Finance Review
Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX), a leader in cloud-based healthcare supply chain management solutions, which helps empower...
Dec
28
2018
Procurement: New Star in the Supply Chain Cloud
Supply & Demand Chain Executive
Procurement is a staple of the supply chain, one of the key processes that keeps any organization stocked with the goods and services it needs to operate. But it’s also one of the last supply chain processes to...
Dec
28
2018
Integrated Supply Chains and the Future of Healthcare
Supply Chain Brain
U.S healthcare costs continue to soar. According to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, healthcare costs increased from $27.5bn to $3.2tr between 1960 and 2015. Further, healthcare spending is projected to reach...
Dec
26
2018
Blockchain: The Technology Rx for Healthcare?
Supply & Demand Chain Executive
Blockchain may still be an emerging technology, but much like the internet, its promise to disrupt industries is the topic of...
Dec
18
2018
How standards support the AI promise to revolutionize healthcare delivery
Healthcare Purchasing News
As we begin a new year, there are some exciting developments afoot that are laying the foundation for dramatic changes in how healthcare is ...
Dec
17
2018
Why cybersecurity should focus on preparing for the unknown
Health Data Management
This past July was the worst month on record for healthcare data breaches, according to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights. Records show that data breaches put 858,411 individuals...
Dec
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...
