Healthcare industry casts its vote for most impactful supply chain leaders; Provider organizations document nearly $10 million in single year savings
Best of the Healthcare Supply Chain Honored with GHXcellence Awards
GHX
GHX today announced the winners of its 13 Annual GHXcellence Awards, honoring supply chain leaders that are driving significant savings and efficiency for their organizations, their trading partners and the healthcare industry through automation and best practices. The winners were honored today at the 2013 GHX Healthcare Supply Chain Summit in Las Vegas.
New this year, GHX is honoring an individual supply chain leader for his/her work in improving the business of healthcare with its GHXcellence Leadership Award. In early 2013, GHX called on its community to submit nominations for the award and then invited the entire healthcare industry to vote for the winner. This year’s winner is:
Through its GHXcellence Industry Impact Awards, GHX is once again honoring provider and supplier organizations that have cut healthcare costs by working with GHX to automate purchase orders (POs) and invoices, take control of contract spend and increase electronic connections to trading partners. The GHX community submitted nominations for these awards and the healthcare community cast its votes for the winners. This year’s winners are:
The remaining eight GHXcellence Awards were based on quantifiable performance, with organizations judged on metrics around success in automating business processes, using criteria such as increase in electronic POs, purchasing dollar volume, and the number of electronic trading partners. This year’s winners are:
“The GHX community is comprised of individuals and organizations actively seeking ways to drive greater operational and financial performance through supply chain improvements. Each year, I am proud of the individuals and organizations we recognize as ‘the best of the best’ with our GHXcellence awards,” said GHX President and CEO Bruce Johnson. “Through best practices, processes and technology, those GHXcellence winners honored today are setting the stage for the future economic sustainability of the healthcare industry.”
GHX continues to track supply chain savings driven by its customers as part of the company’s “5 in 5” goal, which aims to take $5 billion out of the cost of healthcare during the five-year program, ending December 31, 2014. By running supply chain processes more efficiently and collaboratively, GHX and its customers are helping transform the healthcare industry by reducing costs and helping providers deliver cost-effective, high quality patient care. As of April 2013, GHX customer savings results had climbed above $3 billion ().
Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX) is driving costs out of healthcare by transforming the healthcare supply chain. Working with providers and suppliers, GHX is accelerating change by providing a faster, more efficient and collaborative supply chain that will take billions of dollars out of the cost of healthcare. For more information, visit and .
Reference Notes1 - View full Best 50 List here ()2 – G-Fax is a GHX solution that converts faxed POs into EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) documents that can be received directly into a manufacturer or distributor’s ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system