Global Healthcare Exchange named 34 healthcare provider and supplier organizations to its GHX Millennium Club for attaining the highest levels of healthcare supply chain automation.
To compile the list, GHX examined the automation levels of more than 1,500 hospitals and suppliers in the U.S. and Canada that use the GHX electronic trading exchange.
The following organizations, which each produce more than 1 million automated transactions annually through the GHX exchange, had the highest scores for a range of automation categories in 2016.
Note: An asterisk indicates the organization is receiving the recognition for a second year.
Providers
Allina Health – Minneapolis*
Ascension Health – St. Louis
BJC HealthCare – St. Louis*
Bon Secours Health System – Marriottsville, Md.*
Centura Health – Centennial, Colo.
Community Health Systems – Franklin, Tenn.*
Dignity Health – San Francisco *
Fairview Health Services – Minneapolis*
HCA Holdings – Nashville, Tenn.*
IU Health – Indianapolis
Mayo Clinic – Rochester, Minn.*
Memorial Hermann Healthcare – Houston *
Mercy Health – Cincinnati
Providence Health & Services – Renton, Wash.
Sutter Health – Sacramento, Calif.*
Tenet Healthcare – Dallas*
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation *
Trinity Health – Livonia, Mich.*
Suppliers
Abbott Laboratories – Chicago*
AmerisourceBergen Corp. – Chesterbrook, Pa.
Baxter Healthcare Corp. – Deerfield, Ill.*
Boston Scientific – Marlborough, Mass.*
C.R. Bard – Murray Hill, N.J.*
Cardinal Health – Dublin, Ohio*
Concordance Healthcare Solutions – St. Louis*
Cook Medical – Bloomington, Ind.*
Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems – Piscataway, N.J.*
McKesson Corp. – San Francisco*
Medline – Northfield, Ill.*
Medtronic – Dublin, Ireland*
Owens & Minor – Mechanicsville, Va.*
Staples – Framingham, Mass.
Stryker Corporation – Kalamazoo, Mich.*
Thermo Fisher Scientific (Fisher Healthcare) – Waltham, Mass.*
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