Turning resiliency and transparency into supply assurance

The trusted collaborative advancing resiliency, transparency, and partnership across the healthcare supply chain.

HIRC creates standards, credentials, and tools that help providers, suppliers, GPOs, and partners strengthen supply assurance and protect continuity of patient care.

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Providers

What you gain with HIRC standards

Reduce duplicate diligence efforts
Improve supplier comparability and risk insight
Align procurement with continuity of care
Strengthen resilience across supply networks

Suppliers

How HIRC supports supplier engagement

Clear expectations for resiliency capability
Consistent evaluation signals across buyers
Better visibility into readiness for continuity of care
Reduced repetitive qualification requests

GPOs & Partners

Benefits of alignment and collaboration

Streamlined adoption of shared resiliency criteria
Enhanced data exchange among members and stakeholders
Consistent framework for supplier performance evaluation
Support for joint initiatives and best practice development.

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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.

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Making healthcare supply chains resilient

HIRC is a neutral, member-led nonprofit that builds sourcing-ready standards, tools, and credentials—so providers and suppliers can reduce duplicate diligence and protect continuity of patient care.

About Us

Convene

Bring providers, suppliers, GPOs, and partners together to co-design standards and governance.

Define

Establish healthcare-specific standards that clarify expectations and enable comparison.

Deliver

Provide deployable tools procurement teams can use in real sourcing decisions.

Scale

Scale credentials and a sourcing-ready dataset so buyers can evaluate suppliers with confidence.

“HIRC’s standards and badges are now part of our business reviews and sourcing events, making resiliency a routine part of procurement.”

– Geoff Gates, Senior Director, P2P & Technology, Cleveland Clinic

“We will set HIRC standards and badges as expectations — they will change how we evaluate trading partners.”

– Tom Harvieux, CSCO, BJC Health Care

“Sharing resiliency information improves outcomes for providers, suppliers, and — most importantly — patients.”

– Alan Mavis, National Accounts, Sr. Director, Baxter Healthcare

Lead by Example

Join the HIRC member community and help govern the standards
that protect healthcare supply chains and patient care.

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