GHX Vice President of Healthcare Value and Lead Data Scientist to Explore Key Industry Issues and New Technologies at 2020 Health Care Supply Chain Summit

Global Healthcare Exchange today announced its Vice President of Healthcare Value, Karen Conway, and Data Science Lead, Bryan Loughry will be featured speakers at the 14^th Annual Health Care Supply Chain Summit, taking place January 27-28 in New Orleans. Conway will present on how supply chain can support programs to manage population health.

The presentation, Managing Population Health: A Supply and Demand Challenge, will take place January 28 at 11:30 a.m. and will address:

• How leveraging foundational supply chain skills can enable population health management objectives
• The value of integrating population health initiatives into current procurement activities rather than creating new programs at added costs 
• How several leading healthcare systems are already leveraging their supply chains to optimize population health initiatives

In addition, Conway and Loughry will participate in a panel discussion, “Digitizing the Supply Chain through the Application of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics,” that will look at the ways in which supply chain executives can leverage artificial intelligence to optimize supply chain management across the continuum of care. The panel, moderated by Healthcare Purchasing News publisher Kris Russell, will take place January 28^th at 8:45 a.m.

Conway and Brent Petty, former System Vice President, Supply Chain for Wellmont Health Systems, will also help facilitate roundtable discussions on mergers and acquisitions, UDIs, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and Emergency Preparedness. The roundtable discussion will take place on January 27^th at 4:15 p.m.

About GHX
Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX) is a healthcare business and data automation company, empowering healthcare organizations to enable better patient care and maximize industry savings using its world-class cloud-based supply chain technology platform. GHX brings together healthcare providers, manufacturers and distributors in North America, and Europe, who rely on proven healthcare-focused technology and comprehensive data to automate business processes and make more informed, timely and fact-based decisions. Solutions span procurement and accounts payable automation, contract and inventory management, vendor credentialing and management, business intelligence, payment management and other supply chain-related tools and services. For more information, visit www.ghx.com and The Healthcare Hub.