Global Healthcare Exchange Joins the
Coalition for Healthcare eStandards
WESTMINSTER, Colo. and ANN ARBOR,
Mich.-December 14, 2001-Global
Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX), which provides supply chain
solutions that create efficiencies for all participants, has
become the newest member of the Coalition for Healthcare
eStandards (CHeS), a group focused on creating and accelerating
the adoption of e-commerce standards.
The Coalition for Healthcare eStandards was
formed in June 2000 by leading healthcare group purchasing
organizations and e-commerce companies to ensure that multiple,
inconsistent data standards in the industry do not compromise
the cost savings promised by e-commerce. GHX has joined the
Coalition as a core member and serves on the Board of
Directors.
“In order for the healthcare supply
chain to realize efficiencies, all participants need to work
together. The Coalition provides an important forum for us to
work together to promote and implement industry-wide adoption
of supply chain standards,” said Mike Mahoney, President
of GHX. “We look forward to continuing work with some of
the industry’s largest e-commerce and group purchasing
organizations through CHeS.”
“GHX brings a critical mass of
manufacturers, distributors and providers together through its
exchange technology, and has a real understanding of the issues
and complexities involved in making e-commerce a reality for
the healthcare supply chain,” said Joe Pleasant, CHeS
Chairman of the Board and Chief Information Officer at Premier,
Inc. “GHX plays an important role in our development of
efficient interactions between healthcare trading
partners,” added John Burks, CHeS Board Treasurer and
Senior Vice President at Novation.
As part of GHX’s standards efforts,
the company has also partnered with the Health Industry
Business Communications Council (HIBCC) and the Emergency Care
Research Institute (ECRI).
About Global Healthcare Exchange
GHX is an Internet-based trading exchange
from which hospitals can purchase both medical and non-medical
products more easily, quickly, and accurately than ever before.
GHX is building a normalized, verified industry standard
catalog, which will take advantage of deep connectivity between
GHX, hospitals, and suppliers to improve efficiencies and add
value throughout the healthcare supply chain. The privately
held company was founded in March 2000 and its membership now
includes more than 100 supplier members and nearly 500 hospital
members, representing 62 integrated delivery networks
(IDN’s). Equity members of GHX include Johnson &
Johnson; GE Medical Systems; Baxter International, Inc.; Abbott
Laboratories; Medtronic, Inc.; Becton, Dickinson & Co.;
Boston Scientific Corporation; C.R. Bard, Inc.; Guidant
Corporation; Siemens Medical Solutions and Tyco International,
Ltd. For more information visit www.ghx.com.
About The Coalition for Healthcare
eStandards
The Coalition for Healthcare eStandards is
a group of leading healthcare purchasers, suppliers and
distributors advocating for the adoption of uniform industry
standards for supply chain transactions over the Internet.
Formed in June 2000, members of the Coalition include Consorta,
MedCenterDirect, medibuy, Neoforma, Novation and Premier. This
group represents nearly 80 percent of the healthcare providers
in the United States. Visit www.CHeStandards.org for more
information about the Coalition.
Contact:
Karen Conway or Jason Rodman
BRW LeGrand (for GHX)
303-298-8470
kconway@brwlegrand.com
Sue Dressel
Coalition for Healthcare eStandards
734-677-3300
april@CHeStandards.org
