Advancing Supply Assurance Across Healthcare
Through resiliency, transparency, and partnership.
HIRC transforms industry collaboration into standards, trusted information, and practical implementation that strengthen supply assurance and protect continuity of patient care.
Providers
Strengthen Supply Assurance
- Strengthen supply assurance and continuity of patient care.
- Improve supplier comparability through common resiliency and transparency standards.
- Gain better visibility into supplier capabilities and potential risks.
- Reduce duplicative diligence and supplier review efforts.
Suppliers
Demonstrate Capabilities
- Understand common expectations for resiliency and transparency.
- Demonstrate capabilities through recognized industry credentials.
- Benefit from more consistent evaluation signals across providers and GPOs.
- Reduce repetitive qualification and information-sharing requests.
GPOs & Partners
Accelerate Alignment
- Accelerate adoption of common resiliency and transparency standards.
- Improve alignment across providers, suppliers, and industry stakeholders.
- Enable more consistent supplier evaluation and decision-making.
- Support shared initiatives that strengthen supply assurance across the healthcare ecosystem.
Recognizing supplier leadership
The HIRC Resiliency Badge — our highest supplier recognition — awarded to suppliers that demonstrate measurable resiliency and transparency in critical supply-chain practices.
How HIRC Creates Supply Assurance
Standards
Create a common foundation for resiliency and transparency.
Transparency
Transform standards into trusted and actionable information.
Decision Signals
Provide sourcing-ready insights that support supplier evaluation and supply assurance decisions.
Implementation
Deliver tools, credentials, education, and practical resources that accelerate adoption.
Alignment
Bring providers, suppliers, GPOs, and partners together around shared practices and objectives.
Lead by Example
Join the HIRC member community and help govern the standards
that protect healthcare supply chains and patient care.