Healthcare Supply Chain Leaders and Visionaries Honored at 16th Annual GHXcellence Awards

Winners Represent Companies Leveraging the Healthcare Supply Chain to Deliver Value, Visibility and Transformation

Austin, TX and Louisville, CO — Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX) today announced the GHXcellence Award winners at the 2016 GHX Healthcare Supply Chain Summit awards banquet in Austin, Texas. The awards, presented to provider and supplier organizations for the past 16 years, recognize the leaders and visionaries that are leveraging supply chain automation to remove waste, cut costs and improve patient care.

This year GHX added the new Millennium Club award (announced April 20, 2016) for provider and supplier organizations that generate over one million automated transactions annually through the GHX Exchange, as well as eight new provider awards to the 2016 GHXcellence program, which blend quantitative and qualitative criteria to honor true healthcare supply chain leaders and innovation. Additionally, the GHX Provider Best 50 will also be recognized at the awards luncheon.

“This is a highlight of the Summit each year, an opportunity for GHX to recognize the professionals and organizations that are paving the way for true supply chain excellence in healthcare,” said Scott Kelley, vice president, North America Sales and Marketing, GHX. “These GHXcellence winners represent the best and the brightest in healthcare supply chain innovation and success. I am honored to recognize them as they facilitate transformation within the supply chain.”

GHX selected the winners based on quantifiable performance metrics around success in automating business processes, including increases in POs and number of trading partners. This year’s winners include:

Supply Chain Leadership (Provider): Bill Mosser, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System
Supply Chain Leadership (Supplier): Carol Stone, C.R. Bard, Inc.
Provider of the Year (Large): Hackensack University Medical Center
Provider of the Year (Small to Medium): Seattle Children’s Hospital
Supplier of the Year (Large Volume): St. Jude Medical
Supplier of the Year (Small Volume): Merit Medical
Canadian Healthcare Supplier of the Year: Medtronic of Canada
Canadian Healthcare Provider of the Year: Transform Shared Service Organization
European Union Healthcare Supplier of the Year: Smiths Medical International Ltd.
Trading Partner Pair of the Year: Montefiore Health System and Zimmer Biomet
Excellence in Content Management: Integris Health
Excellence in Contract Management: Lane Regional Medical Center
Excellence in eProcurement: Berkshire Health Systems
Excellence in ePayables: Phoebe Putney Health System
Excellence in Vendor Credentialing: Sharp Healthcare
Impact Industry Supplier for Credentialing: Teva Pharmaceuticals USA
Most Improved Provider: Henry Ford Health System
Rookie of the Year: Health Sciences North

For more details on award criteria go to the GHX Awards Program page.

About GHX

Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX) drives costs out of healthcare with cloud-based supply chain management technology and services in order to help enable better patient care and savings by maximizing automation, efficiency, and accuracy of business processes. GHX offers healthcare providers and suppliers an open and neutral electronic trading exchange that delivers procurement and accounts payable automation, contract and inventory management, vendor credentialing and management, business intelligence, and other supply chain-related tools and services. For more information, visit www.ghx.com and The Healthcare Hub.