The Healthcare Supply Chain Summit by GHX is the largest healthcare event that brings together both the buy and sell sides of the healthcare supply chain to learn, share and discuss new ways to improve the business of healthcare and reduce costs.
Join us in 2012 for the 12th annual Summit, where more than 600 healthcare leaders and representatives—from provider, supplier, distributor and GPO organizations—will attend this premier event to network and collaborate on successful supply chain strategies. Your time spent with industry experts, customers and peers will strengthen your organization for years to come.
Announcing the 2012 Keynote Speakers
 Chip Heath
co-author of "Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard" |  Charles Poirier
International supply chain expert and author of 14 books, including "Diagnosing Greatness: Ten Traits of the Best Supply Chains" |  Chief Richard "Pitch" Picciotto
"Last Man Down" and highest-ranking firefighter to survive the collapse of the World Trade Center |
GHX Leadership to Discuss Building a Stronger Healthcare Community
Focus on Collaboration, Automation and Information Sharing to Improve Quality and Reduce Spend in Healthcare
 |  | In the wake of significant uncertainly in healthcare, it is more important than ever for suppliers and providers to find ways to create a sustainable healthcare market. The key to making this happen is through increased trust and shared information between all parties. Bruce Johnson, CEO, will explore strategies to make trust a top priority, including the adoption of new technologies for greater automation, efficiencies and collaborative information sharing. |
 | | For more than a decade, GHX has driven technological innovation to bring together the largest community in healthcare. Derek Smith, executive vice president, marketing and product management, will discuss how GHX will continue to use technology to shape the future of healthcare, including a more streamlined user experience, better visibility into potential trading partners and improved AP and KPI processes. Smith will also explore GHX’s foray into bringing more efficiency and business process improvements to implantable devices – a notoriously poorly managed segment of healthcare that accounts for $40 billion in spend a year. |
 | | Suppliers and providers agree that effective management of implantable devices is an industry-wide issue that impacts healthcare efficiency and profitability across the board. The root causes of this problem are the many areas that are lacking, including standardization, clarity and consistency regarding provider decision making and joint-value processes that are shared by providers and suppliers. Martin Payne, vice president, corporate development, will discuss how GHX plans to solve this issue with the industry’s first implantable devices supply chain solution. |