Prodigo Solutions - Healthcare Supply Chain Solutions

GHXcellence Awards Honor Healthcare Providers and Suppliers for Achievements
in Supply Chain Performance

LOUISVILLE, Colo., June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- GHX honored 12 healthcare provider
and supplier organizations with 13 GHXcellence Awards for achievements in
improving supply chain performance. The awards were presented on Wednesday,
June 3, 2009, during a recognition ceremony in Nashville at the 9th Annual GHX
Supply Chain Summit - the largest forum in the U.S. focused on both the buy
and sell side of the healthcare supply chain.

The theme of this year's awards was "Be Bold: Achieve best practice in your
supply chain." The awards are granted to those organizations that best met
specific criteria during the 2008 calendar year, including:

-- Increased use of e-commerce solutions throughout the healthcare supply
chain
-- The number of trading partners with whom they conducted e-commerce
-- The percentage of orders transacted electronically
-- The percentage of invoices transacted electronically
-- Reduction in order and invoice discrepancies and errors

The GHXcellence Award recipients are:
-- Healthcare Provider of the Year (U.S.): Orlando Regional Healthcare,
Orlando, Fla.
-- Healthcare Provider of the Year (Canada): The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa,
Ontario
-- Most Improved Healthcare Provider (Purchase Order Growth): Floyd
Medical
Center, Rome, Ga.
-- Most Improved Healthcare Provider (Invoice Growth): NYU Langone
Medical
Center, New York, N.Y.
-- My Exchange Order Center Usage* (Provider): Advocate Health Care, Oak
Brook, Ill.
-- Best 50 IDN **: Orlando Regional Healthcare, Orlando, Fla. and Sisters
of Charity Providence Hospitals, Columbia, S.C.
-- Healthcare Supplier of the Year (U.S.): Abbott Corporation, Abbott
Park,
Ill.
-- Healthcare Supplier of the Year (Canada): Johnson & Johnson Medical
Products, Markham, Ontario
-- Distributor of the Year: Cardinal Health, Dublin, Ohio
-- Best In Class Mobile Solutions: Cordis Corporation, Bridgewater, N.J.
-- Most Innovative Provider (Business Process Change): Children's
Memorial Hospital of Chicago

-- Most Innovative Provider (Technology): UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pa.

* Award for using technology for proactive order exception management
** Integrated delivery networks with the lowest purchase order exception
rates

This year, GHX honored two providers with Most Innovative Provider awards for
innovation in their implementation of e-commerce solutions.

Children's Memorial Hospital of Chicago was honored for business process
improvements made across the organization to automate the supply chain. As a
result of automation, the hospital has reduced supply expenses and inventory
levels, increased revenue and saved millions of dollars in labor and related
costs. More than 72 percent of Children's Memorial orders and 92.5 percent of
its lines are now processed through GHX. Automation has enabled the hospital
to realign purchasing staff from transaction-based buyers to procurement
agents, operating room (OR) support and contract teams that meet with
clinicians to understand usage patterns, increasing stock availability to 99.1
percent and improving customer satisfaction.

UPMC was honored for its innovative use of technology to improve data
management, orders and supply chain processes. The health system complemented
its own technology for e-requisitioning with technology solutions from GHX to
create a fully automated procurement process and developed an internal
marketing campaign to increase adoption. UPMC has fully automated transactions
with major vendors, resulting in a 40 percent touchless order rate including
electronic invoicing. By automating processes, UPMC has reduced requisition
time from 15 to 20 minutes to less than five minutes per requisition and saved
$30 a transaction in procurement-related costs.

"During these challenging economic times, healthcare providers and suppliers
are beginning to recognize the strategic value of their supply chains and the
significant impact they have on the financial health of their organizations,"
said GHX CEO Bruce Johnson. "This year's GHXcellence Awards honor those
organizations that are leading this trend by maximizing the value of
e-commerce solutions to improve process efficiencies and achieve hard-dollar
savings."

About GHX
As the business hub for healthcare, GHX enables healthcare providers and
suppliers in North America and Europe to reduce costs and improve margins by
automating processes, reducing operating expenses and increasing
knowledge-based decision making. Products and services include trading
partner connectivity, order and contract management and validation, data
synchronization, sales force automation and business intelligence. Equity
owners of GHX are Abbott Exchange, Inc.; AmerisourceBergen Corp.; Baxter
Healthcare Corp.; B. Braun Medical Inc.; Becton, Dickinson & Co.; Boston
Scientific Corp.; Cardinal Health, Inc.; Covidien; C.R. Bard, Inc.; Fisher
Scientific International, Inc.; GE Healthcare; HCA; Johnson & Johnson Health
Care Systems Inc.; McKesson Corp.; Medtronic USA, Inc.; Owens & Minor;
Premier, Inc.; Siemens; University HealthSystem Consortium; and VHA Inc. For
more information, visit www.ghx.com.

SOURCE: GHX

Karen Conway of GHX, cell, +1-303-564-2147, voice mail, +1-720-887-7215,
kconway@ghx.com; or Kara Della Vecchia, cell, +1-508-314-3127,
kara@kdvcommunications.com, for GHX