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organizations that support those excluded from, or underserved by, the mainstream health delivery system. To be considered for this application-based award, a pro- gram must successfully address a worthy, well-defined, unmet need and must operate independently from a hospital or healthcare system. Winner receives a cash prize of $100,000 from Premier. Innovation Award Winners: •Elekta


•GE Healthcare •Hologic


•Olympus America, Inc. •Siemens Healthineers Premier's Breakthroughs Conference focuses on the future by showcasing a small number of disruptive technologies and promising innovations discovered by forward-thinking companies. American Excess Insurance Exchange (AEIX) Risk Management Award Winners: •Baptist Health


•PeaceHealth (won two awards) These awards honor members that create care delivery practices to improve patient safety and enhance quality of care. Winners are selected based on care delivery practice effectiveness and potential applicability to other healthcare settings. Supplier Diversity Award for Members Winners: •Supplier Diversity Award Winner (Hospital Member) -- Mount Sinai Health System


•Supplier Diversity Honorable Mention (Hospital Member) -- The MetroHealth System


•Supplier Diversity Winner (Supplier) -- SourceMark Medical


The Supplier Diversity Award for Members honors health systems that have established active programs to evaluate and support minority-, women- and veteran- owned enterprises and small businesses that are a part of Premier’s contract portfolio. Members are evaluated on engagement in diversity initiatives through community involvement, diversity business outreach initiatives, benchmarking and best practices sharing.


Supply Chain Excellence Award The supply chain issues wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic were daunting for the entire healthcare industry. While our supplier community extended over- whelming support, a few of our industry partners exhibited exemplary leadership by collaborating with Premier in an extraordinary way in service to our mem- bers. To honor these outstanding compa- nies, Premier created the COVID Supplier Awards winners for these companies: Battelle, Lowe’s and Owens & Minor.


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Vizient congressional briefing finds hospital leaders support post-COVID telehealth Vizient, Inc. hosted a virtual congressional briefing, Telehealth, ot ust a andemic Back-up Plan,” at which panelists discussed how hospitals provide telehealth services, lessons learned regarding the increased utilization of telehealth and what is needed to continue to support providers and patients beyond the pandemic. s the data shows, virtual health services are something that hospitals are clearly committed to investing in post-COVID,” said aloni ain, ice resident, nalytics and Informatics at Vizient and moderator of the panel. ver the past  months the conversation amongst providers has shifted from whether telehealth should be a service offered, to overcoming barriers in the implementation of such services across a wide range of hospitals with varying levels of technologically focused infrastructure in place.”


The discussion focused on hospital systems centered in both rural and urban communities, though the issues shared included common themes: •Increased access to broadband - Regardless of location, access to reliable and affordable internet is pivotal to ensuring patients are able to access care in an efficient manner. •Revised legislative and regulatory frame- work – As hospitals transition from the COVID-19 public health emergency, there is a need to maintain several of the ex- ibilities that have been provided in laws, regulations and licensure requirements.


•Appropriate reimbursement and payment parity – Post-COVID, there needs to be an understanding of what services and procedures will be eligible for CMS reimbursement. For a sustainable model to be put into place, there needs to be clear and equitable reimbursement. •Focus on increasing patient connection and trust – To have a quality, digital relationship, patients must have trust. As hospitals transition towards a more high- tech approach, they should not lose sight of high-touch techniques that continue to build relationships with patients and their caregivers.


HealthTrust and CoreTrust division acquire EasiBuy HealthTrust, a group purchasing organiza- tion (GPO) and supply chain performance company for healthcare, along with its commercial GPO, CoreTrust division, announced the acquisition of EasiBuy, a full-service reverse-auction technology company specializing in cooperative sourc- ing for government agencies.


July 2021 • HEALTHCARE PURCHASING NEWS • hpnonline.com


EasiBuy will launch a Lead Agency Procurement Organization (LAPO) model aimed at erasing the double-digit differen- tials that government agencies frequently pay versus private sector GPO contracts, through negotiation of multi-jurisdictional public sector cooperative agreements. Since 2012, EasiBuy (formerly Electronic Auction Services, Inc.), Kent, OH, has provided state and local governments managed procurement services utilizing its proprietary technology. The LAPO bid development process integrates client requirements, including vendor credential- ing with EasiBuy’s e-procurement technol- ogy to ensure a competitive, compliant and fully transparent experience for buyers and sellers. Contract provisions allow other pub- lic entities to piggyback off ead gency agreements and achieve economies of scale they would not receive by contracting on their own.


Typically, public sector purchasing groups tend to have vendor-centric contracts, reecting a price premium to what we have historically achieved in the private sector. We aim to remedy that and have coined the LAPO term to distinguish EasiBuy’s approach and underscore the importance of an agency-centric, fully transparent and compliant, cooperative model”, said Ed ones, ealthTrust president and . Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed.


WHO warns increasing electronic waste harms health of millions of children


Effective and binding action is urgently required to protect the millions of children, adolescents and expectant mothers worldwide whose health is jeopardized by the informal processing of discarded electrical or electronic devices, according to a new Children and Digital Dumpsites report from the World Health Organization (WHO), announced the organization. As many as 12.9 million women are


working in the informal waste sector, which potentially exposes them to toxic e-waste and puts them and their unborn children at risk. ore than  million children and adolescents, some as young as five years of age, are actively engaged in the informal industrial sector, of which waste processing is a sub-sector. Children exposed to e-waste are particularly vulner- able to the toxic chemicals they contain due to their smaller size, less developed organs and rapid rate of growth and development. They absorb more pollut- ants relative to their size and are less able to metabolize or eradicate toxic substances from their bodies. HPN


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