GHX empowers healthcare organisations to reduce costs and improve efficiencies. We do this by delivering tools and services that automate processes and increase knowledge-based decision making.

Since inception in 2000, GHX has operated a neutral trading exchange open to and owned by representatives from all members of the healthcare supply chain including providers, suppliers, Group Purchasing Organisations and distributors.

GHX Supply Chain Services help healthcare buyers and suppliers save time and money through technology that synchronises and automates business processes, ensures data accuracy, and enables more business to take place electronically.

GHX continues to identify supply chain challenges, develop solutions through innovative technology and bring better fiscal health to healthcare organisations worldwide.

Our Vision is to make healthcare more efficient. Our Mission is to create a fully-connected and efficient healthcare supply chain: streamlining the purchasing process, leveraging accurate product information and maximising connectivity between trading partners, resulting in cost savings for all participants.

Our solutions for the UK healthcare market are as follows:

By connecting to the GHX Exchange, buyers and sellers can transact business electronically with multiple trading partners through a single Internet connection, reducing or eliminating the costs associated with establishing and maintaining separate EDI connections with each e-commerce supplier or customer. By helping hospitals and suppliers maximise the number of trading partner relationships, GHX can help increase the percentage of products that can be bought and sold electronically.

The brand name for our Exchange for the Hospital Pharmacy Sector. The Pharmacy Messaging Service offers a single trading platform for hospital pharmacy orders, confirmations and the invoices relating to these orders. This streamlined process, is saving resources by reducing errors in picking and increasing the certainty that the product ordered is the product that will reach the hospital pharmacy and in turn the patient.

From the basic e-Commerce Edition to the full bar-code data capture Materials Management Edition, PowerGate offers intuitive and expandable Windows based software.

PowerGate applies the business logic required to run an e-Commerce based Supply Chain Management system. The PowerGate range provides an electronic solution to any Purchasing / Inventory Management requirement.

An online data repository containing catalogue information with secure shared access for both hospitals and suppliers.

For suppliers, GHX smartFax converts faxed purchase orders into electronic purchase orders using OCR technology.

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