The Healthcare Hub

GHX and Workday Align in the Cloud for Healthcare

• Pete Nelson, General Manager, Global Alliances

Over the past 30 years, hospitals have been adopting technologies to steadily increase process automation throughout their operations in an effort to enhance efficiency and reduce costs. It began in the 1980s with the initial use of mainframes and desktop computers for electronic patient registration, continued through the late 1990s with “Best of Breed” systems, such as materials management information systems (MMIS) for order processing and inventory management, and then transitioned in the early 2000s to present day with the adoption of on-premise (“on-prem”) enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems that automated both materials management and financial operations.

Going Beyond Supply Chain Basics: Pricing Alignment in Healthcare

• Susan LaFountain, Product Manager, Industry Adoption

Two decades ago, a few healthcare supply chain partners decided to automate basic transactions so that they could improve efficiency and accuracy and reduce costs – and the GHX Exchange was born. Today over 10 thousand supplier divisions and 19 thousand provider facilities use GHX standards to automate the four core supply chain documents: The purchase order (850), purchase order acknowledgment (855), advance ship notice (856) and invoice (810). These “basic” supply chain transactions encompass the processes around placing an order, delivering the products and billing for those products.

Standardizing and Automating Order Confirmations: The Long-Tail Effect

What role does the purchase order acknowledgment (POA) play in supporting better patient outcomes? This simple task, when accomplished, can be traced back to multiple advantages in the healthcare supply chain. This is especially true when the POA is part of a holistic, standardized approach to order management. The supply chain team gains greater visibility into order status and can better manage the process of delivering the correct products in a timely manner to support patient care.

What U.S. Healthcare Providers Should Know About GDPR

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new European legal framework that regulates the privacy and security of personal data belonging to individuals within the European Union (EU) as well other European Economic Area (EEA) countries namely Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein. The main tenet of GDPR is the rights of individuals to their personal information — individuals have complete control over where, when, and how their personal information is to be collected and used.