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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.

Standardizing and Automating Order Confirmations: The Long-Tail Effect

Friday, February 22, 2019

What role does the purchase order acknowledgment (POA) play in supporting better patient outcomes? This simple task, when accomplished, can be traced back to multiple advantages in the healthcare supply chain. This is especially true when the POA is part of a holistic, standardized approach to order management. The supply chain team gains greater visibility into order status and can better manage the process of delivering the correct products in a timely manner to support patient care.

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What U.S. Healthcare Providers Should Know About GDPR

Thursday, June 28, 2018

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new European legal framework that regulates the privacy and security of personal data belonging to individuals within the European Union (EU) as well other European Economic Area (EEA) countries namely Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein. The main tenet of GDPR is the rights of individuals to their personal information — individuals have complete control over where, when, and how their personal information is to be collected and used.

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