Standards, Initiatives & Councils
Join us in building and adopting industry wide standards for healthcare supply chain resiliency. Posted standards represent the voices of providers, suppliers, and industry partners. Initiatives are your opportunity to lean in and help shape the future of resiliency.
Resiliency Badge
Independent validation of supplier resiliency
An evidence-based, audit-style standard that independently validates a supplier’s ability to withstand, respond to, and recover from supply-chain disruptions in critical healthcare categories—reducing sourcing risk while strengthening continuity of care.
Outcome
Comparable, sourcing-ready assurance buyers can trust.
Transparency Badge
Standardized visibility into supply-chain risk
A standard that recognizes suppliers who share key supply-chain data—manufacturing locations and resiliency diagnostics—through a consistent, supplier-controlled model, giving buyers clear visibility into risk while eliminating repetitive data requests.
Outcome
Consistent visibility that improves risk assessment and planning.
Initiatives
Key programs advancing supply chain excellence
Resiliency in Procurement
Resiliency in Procurement helps health systems embed resiliency criteria into sourcing decisions so supplier evaluations support continuity of care.
HIRC Academy
HIRC Academy is a forum that turns healthcare resiliency strategy into measurable action through hands-on learning and leadership insight.
Member Choice Awards
The HIRC Member Choice Awards honor suppliers and purchasers who strengthen healthcare supply chain resiliency and patient care continuity.
Gartner Top 25 Resiliency
Gartner’s Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25 rankings include a quantitative risk management resiliency component that accounts for 5% of the total score.
Standards
Published, sourcing-ready tools you can adopt today
Resiliency Lite Assessment
The Resiliency Lite Assessment is a streamlined supplier self-assessment that supports baseline resiliency transparency across key healthcare supply-chain domains.
Resiliency Scorecard
A standardized, sourcing-ready scoring framework that helps providers and suppliers measure, compare, and strengthen supply chain resiliency.
HIRC Vault
An access-controlled environment that enables suppliers to share resiliency and supply-chain information with authorized healthcare organizations in a governed manner.
Playbooks
Step-by-Step Implementation Guides
Resiliency Playbook
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Transparency Playbook
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Scorecard Playbook
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Councils
Member-driven working groups shaping practical standards and best practices
HIRC Academy
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Standards Adoption Council
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Engagement Council
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Resiliency Council
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Transparency Council
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Partnership Council
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Lead by Example
Join the HIRC member community and help govern the standards
that protect healthcare supply chains and patient care.