About Us

The Healthcare Supply Chain Standards Coalition was founded as part of the National Alliance for Healthcare Information Technology.  Coalition work is overseen by an Oversight Committee comprised of all Standards Coalition member and observer organizations, with specific work handled by three subcommittees, each representing a distinct phase of the supply chain standards roadmap.

Oversight Committee
The Oversight Committee provides strategic guidance, final review, and approval of the subcommittees’ work and management of the Coalition’s overall governance.

Chairs

Joe Dudas
Director, Accounting and Supply Chain Informatics
Mayo Clinic
Dudas.joseph@mayo.edu

Steve Christian
Director, Commercial & Staff Operations
Abbott

Organizational ID Subcommittee
In today’s healthcare supply chain, the lack of an organizational identifier results in:

• an inability to match supply chain parties to business transactions;
• no process for accurate and standard identification of trading partners; and
• an inability to share information among entities.

The Organizational ID subcommittee will determine the best standard for universally identifying providers and their suppliers, both at the entity and sub-entity level. Provider identification should include acute-care locations, physician offices, and alternate care sites. The selected standard should have global capabilities and include a synchronization mechanism.

The chosen standard and synchronization mechanism will be piloted and presented for public comment and the subcommittee will review the pilot outcomes and public comments and refine the model as needed.

Chairs

Mary Pat Elwood
Order-to-cash Process Improvement Leader
BD

Dennis Byer
Senior Director, SCDM & Industry Standards
Novation

Data Synchronization Subcommittee
Product data that is not synchronized between buyer and seller leads to many inefficiencies and much waste in the healthcare supply chain.

This subcommittee will determine the best standard to identify products and establish a model for a utility to synchronize product information. The selection of a product identifier will include an examination of the attributes needed to not only identify but also distinguish products.  In addition to establishing a model for a synchronization utility, the subcommittee will develop accompanying implementation plans for each user group.

The chosen standard and synchronization utility will be piloted and presented for public comment, and the subcommittee will review the pilot outcomes and public comments and refine the model as needed.

Chairs

Dennis Black
Director eCommerce
BD

KP Jimmink
Product Manager, eBusiness
Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems, Inc.

Education and Enablement Subcommittee
Simply selecting standards is not enough to make a difference in healthcare.  For this reason, the Standards Coalition places a great deal of emphasis on developing programs to not only educate the healthcare industry on the importance of standards, but also to help organizations implement the use of those standards in their own business processes. 

The Education and Enablement Subcommittee is responsible for developing strategies to foster industry-wide adoption and enablement of standards recommended by the subcommittees and the Oversight Committee.

Chairs

Karen Conway
Director, Industry Communications
GHX

Deborah Petretich Templeton R.Ph., MHA
Associate Vice President
Geisinger Health System

The National Alliance for Health Information Technology
The National Alliance for Health Information Technology (the Alliance) is responsible for organizing, planning, and guiding the work of the Standards Coalition. The Alliance focuses its efforts on how healthcare information technology should be conceived and paid for and how to make implementation most effective.  As part of the Alliance, the Standards Coalition will provide organizations with strategies to achieve information-driven healthcare together with implementation options that will realize the vision of a much more connected healthcare system.  For more information, please visit: www.nahit.org