Healthcare Supply Chain Links

Canada

www.carenet.ca
CareNET Services Inc. Is a not-for-profit association of over 400 Canadian healthcare providers (hospitals and long term care facilities, 100 healthcare product suppliers, group purchasing organizations and solution providers advancing and facilitating the use of standards-based electronic commerce and supply chain best practices. CareNET Guidelines, newsletter, sign-in required.

www.fin.gov.on.ca/english/ontariobuys/
OntarioBuys is a program of the Ontario Ministry of Finance that provides funding and advice to the province’s broader public sector (BPS) partners – mainly hospitals, school boards, colleges and universities – to help them modernize their supply chains

www.c2p2online.com
Canadian Centre for Pollution Control – Healthcare Environmental Procurement/Green Purchasing http://oee.nrcan.gc.ca/energystar Natural Resources Canada – Energy Star Calculator

www.gs1ca.org
GS1 Canada – Canadian non-profit, industry-led association. Develops, promotes and maintains global standards for identification of goods, services, locations and related e-commerce communication. Workshops, PRs, Events, North American Standards e.g. Bar Code, Business Messaging and other.

United States

www.ahrmm.org
Association for Healthcare Resource and Maternal Management

www.higpa.org
Health Industry Group Purchasing Association (19 GPOs) – Education, Advocacy and Liaison (between healthcare industry and other industry entities) – Publications – Studies and Reports e.g. Estimates of Costs/Savings of Various Key Proposals to Regulate HC Purchasing.

www.chestandards.org
The Coalition for Healthcare eStandards (CHeS). Merging with the Health Industry Group Purchasing Association (HIGPA). Promotes the use of open data standards that make the healthcare system more efficient and safer for patients. Initiatives include product and customer ID – FAQs, News, Case Studies. Also includes library.

www.hisci-net.org
The Healthcare Industry Supply Chain Institute (HISCI) is a collaborative association that represents the entire healthcare supply chain, including suppliers, manufacturers, providers and group purchasing organizations. HISCI's mission is to be a "performance improvement" organization via best practice sharing, education and networking.

www.hibcc.org/
Healthcare Industry Business Community Council, Phoenix, Ariz. Industry sponsored and supported non-profit. Primary function to facilitate e-communications by developing standards for info exchange among all healthcare trading partners. Links to global affiliates: Australia, France, Turkey, Netherlands. FAQs about barcode labellers. Resource Centre, Guidelines.

www.practicegreenhealth.com
Green purchasing resources with access to US compliance standards.

International

www.pasa.nhs.uk/PASAweb
UK Purchasing and Supply Agency

www.healthsupplychain.gov.au
Australia – National Supply Chain Reform Task Force – Case Studies

www.iso.org
International Organization for Standards – Purchase standards, ISO Guide, News.

www.noharm.org
Practice No Harm, health care non-profit with information on Environmentally Preferable Purchasing, GPOs, and Links to Europe.

www.gghc.org
Green Guide for Health Care