Voting is open for three categories of GHXcellence awards, including the Leadership Award and Industry Impact Awards for both provider and supplier organizations. These awards recognize individuals and organizations that are leading healthcare in creating new supply chain best practices and driving automation and efficiency, while enabling significant savings for their organizations as well as their trading partners. The healthcare community can vote now through April 11, 2014, and winners will be announced at the 14th annual GHX Healthcare Supply Chain Summit, May 5 – 7, 2014, in Philadelphia.
Members of the healthcare community nominated individual supply chain leaders for their work in improving the business of healthcare. Voting is now open to select the winner of this award, the GHXcellence Leadership Award, with nominees including:
In addition, the following organizations were nominated for their exceptional achievements in cutting healthcare costs by working with GHX to automate purchase orders and invoices, take control of contract spend, and increase electronic connections to trading partners. A description of each organization’s actual performance is contained in the online voting tool.
GHXcellence Industry Impact Award: Provider Nominees
GHXcellence Industry Impact Award: Supplier Nominees
"The need to create change in healthcare has never been greater. And it’s been proven that the degree to which healthcare providers and suppliers achieve supply chain automation in their organizations directly impacts savings—at the individual organization level and on the industry as a whole," said Scott Kelley, vice president, North American Sales, GHX. "The GHX community of provider and supplier organizations recognizes the financial value of automation. When we select the Industry Impact and Leadership Awards, it’s our opportunity to highlight the success of peers who are setting the bar for savings and efficiency."
There are an additional eight GHXcellence Awards, which are based on quantifiable metrics including automation of business processes, and increases in electronic purchase orders, purchasing dollar volume and the number of electronic trading partners. The awards include:
About GHX
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 www.ghx.com and The Healthcare Hub.