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Featured White Papers

Driving Transformation in the Healthcare Supply Chain--Change Can be Good for Your Bottom Line

Industry-leading healthcare systems view their supply chain as a strategic asset that can help them meet operational, clinical and financial imperatives. This paper examines supply chain transformation in four organizations: New York City Health and Hospitals Corp, Cleveland Clinic, Hospital Sisters Health System, and Champlain Health Supply Services.
Strategies for Healthcare Supply Chain Collaboration

Examines ways healthcare providers and suppliers are cutting costs, reducing waste and enhancing operational performance through collaboration within their own organizations and with their trading partners.
Applying Supply Chain Best Practices from Other Industries to Healthcare - A GHX White Paper for Healthcare Executives

Explores which supply chain practices from other industries can be adapted to the needs of healthcare. Includes perspectives from healthcare executives on how to put these concepts into practice.

Healthcare Provider White Papers

Driving Transformation in the Healthcare Supply Chain--Change Can be Good for Your Bottom Line
Industry-leading healthcare systems view their supply chain as a strategic asset that can help them meet operational, clinical and financial imperatives. This paper examines supply chain transformation in four organizations: New York City Health and Hospitals Corp, Cleveland Clinic, Hospital Sisters Health System, and Champlain Health Supply Services.

Strategies for Healthcare Supply Chain Collaboration
Examines ways healthcare providers and suppliers are cutting costs, reducing waste and enhancing operational performance through collaboration within their own organizations and with their trading partners.

Accounts Payable Optimization in Today's Healthcare Environment
Discusses AP optimization as a way for hospitals to manage operating expense pressure and staff reductions, cut invoice processing costs, manage cash flow and gain greater visibility into their AP processes.

Applying Supply Chain Best Practices from Other Industries to Healthcare - A GHX White Paper for Healthcare Executives
Explores which supply chain practices from other industries can be adapted to the needs of healthcare. Includes perspectives from healthcare executives on how to put these concepts into practice.

Gaining Control of Your Hospital's Fastest Growing Operating Expense
Explores methods for improving an organization’s contract management performance through automation and process and resource optimization.

Moving to GLNs #4 -- Technologies to Support the Transition for Providers
This paper presents questions that providers and their technology vendors must ask to determine if their MMIS and ERP systems are capable of transacting with GLNs.

Hospitals Embrace e-Procurement for Supply Chain Management
Summary of research conducted with 199 hospital purchasing officers outlining the state of the industry, barriers to use of e-transactions, and where supply chain automation delivers the greatest value.

Moving to GLNs #2 -- GLN Best Practices for Providers
This white paper outlines the steps that providers must take to successfully transact with GLNs on the GHX exchange.

Procurement Optimization -- A Holistic Approach
Provides a perspective on procurement in today’s healthcare environment, and suggests some guidelines for how to use technology, people and processes to optimize procurement.

The Financial Value of eCommerce
Explores opportunities enabled by supply chain automation, beyond labor savings and increased productivity; covers how hospitals are documenting quantifiable hard-dollar savings achieved through e-commerce.

Successful Supply Chain Strategies to Address Challenging Economic Times
Discusses the essential elements (visibility, stakeholder engagement, process improvement, automation) for successful supply chain improvement and explores them in action in three leading healthcare institutions.

Moving to GLNs #1 -- Multiple Account Numbers for the Same Location
One of the primary advantages of moving to GLNs is that healthcare providers will no longer have to manage multiple account numbers from their various suppliers for the same location.

Global Standards Glossary
A glossary of common terms

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Healthcare Supplier White Papers

Strategies for Healthcare Supply Chain Collaboration
Examines ways healthcare providers and suppliers are cutting costs, reducing waste and enhancing operational performance through collaboration within their own organizations and with their trading partners.

Hospitals Embrace e-Procurement for Supply Chain Management
Summary of research conducted with 199 hospital purchasing officers outlining the state of the industry, barriers to use of e-transactions, and where supply chain automation delivers the greatest value.

Moving to GLNs #3 -- GLN Best Practices for Suppliers
This white paper outlines the steps suppliers must take in order to transact successfully with GLNs and fulfill the requirements of their GPO partners.

State of the Healthcare Market -- Changing Market Dynamics in a Recession Economy
With access to the medical-surgical industry’s most comprehensive source of national distributed sales transaction data, GHX conducted an analysis, presented here, to determine the true impact of the economic downturn on the marketplace.

Moving to GLNs #1 -- Multiple Account Numbers for the Same Location
One of the primary advantages of moving to GLNs is that healthcare providers will no longer have to manage multiple account numbers from their various suppliers for the same location.

Global Standards Glossary
A glossary of common terms

The Intelligent Life Sciences and Healthcare Supply Chain
Explores the different scenarios for collaborating internally among different functional areas and externally with customers to manage inventory levels without letting customer satisfaction slip.

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Off-contract, maverick spend Contract overpayments Financial non-compliance Trading partner connections Low contract compliance Inaccurate item master data Price inaccuracy; price validation Invoice exceptions	Misaligned contracts Manual contract reconciliation Non-file spend Slow invoice approval, late payments Contract underutilization Invoice-to-order discrepancies Misaligned product descriptions Inability to generate EDI	High order error rates Costly inventory audits Increasing DSOs Visibility to revenue growth path Unconsolidated order channels Rebate / chargeback discrepancies Lack of competitive intelligence Conformance with global standards	Manual order processing Error-prone invoicing Limited price exception visibility Recalled field inventory Lost/expired field inventory Incorrect commission payments Unconsolidated MDM processes	Healthcare reform Escalating supply chain costs Technology adoption Supplier-provider collaboration Global standards adoption

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