The Healthcare Hub

GHX provides a wide range of perspectives on how greater collaboration and visibility across the supply chain can improve both clinical and financial performance in healthcare.

4 Ways Directed Buying Can Help You Achieve Your ESG Goals

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Your health system or hospital leaders have set environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals for your organization. It’s easy to say at a high level, “these are our priorities,” but how do you take steps to achieve them and demonstrate your impact? 

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Top 7 Hospital Inventory Best Practices

Thursday, September 14, 2023

Hospitals and other healthcare facilities rely on a vast array of medical equipment and supplies to provide high-quality care to patients. In the fast-paced and dynamic healthcare industry, managing inventory effectively plays a pivotal role in ensuring smooth supply chain operations, cost savings and optimal patient care.

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GHX Marketplace Mobile Edition: Moving Beyond the Four Walls of Healthcare Supply Chain

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Ordering supplies is an in-person task that has long been conducted within the confines of the hospital. But as the healthcare industry copes with unprecedent rates of burnout and staff resignation, it’s become increasingly important to provide healthcare worker with options that alleviate unnecessary burden whether or not they’re in a typical hospital setting.

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5 Reasons Health Systems Leverage GHX Marketplace for CQO Initiatives

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

The tenets of the Cost, Quality and Outcomes (CQO) Movement have been gaining traction in the healthcare industry in recent years. “Cost” refers to all expenses involved in caring for individuals or communities, while “quality” is care aimed at achieving the best possible health, and “outcomes” refers to the financial results driven by high-quality patient outcomes.

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Driving Compliance through Directed Buying in Healthcare Supply Chains

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

For today’s healthcare supply chain professional, procurement pathways are as complex as the large health system’s service delivery models are varied. As a result, there are multiple requesting locations, served by different inventory locations and distribution channels, covering an always increasing number of contract items and prices.

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Understanding Safety Stock in Supply Chain Management

Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Healthcare inventory management strategies have shifted over the decades from "just-in-case inventory" to "just-in-time inventory" to now perhaps something in the middle given the ongoing supply chain disruptions and shortages of medical supplies and pharmaceuticals.

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