After successfully integrating with GHX in just three weeks time, Tri-anim became the fastest supplier to begin conducting live transactions with customers after joining GHX.

Tri-anim became a member of GHX at the request of healthcare systems that were already GHX members and were interested in purchasing products from the California-based supplier via the Internet-based trading exchange. “Our customers are increasingly using e-commerce to increase the efficiency of their purchasing," said Dan Pearson, Tri-anim's vice president of sales and marketing. "Our relationship with GHX is vitally important to ensuring that Tri-anim customers can order products whenever and however they choose."

With technology that offers flexible connectivity options, GHX is designed to make it faster, simpler and easier for participating members of the healthcare supply chain to conduct business with one another. GHX is building the industry standard-based AllSourceÔ catalog, with standardized product information provided and verified by suppliers. Complementary efforts by hospitals to clean item master files and establish standardized hospital identification numbers will further increase the accuracy of business transactions performed through GHX’s Internet-based trading exchange.

“As an open and neutral trading exchange, an increasing number of participants in the healthcare supply chain are choosing to join GHX, because it offers them the opportunity to connect to vendors and customers through just one internet connection,” says GHX President Mike Mahoney. “The value GHX offers will only increase as more and more trading partners are able to conduct business with one another through the exchange.”

About Tri-anim,

Tri-anim is a nationwide specialty products supplier for respiratory, anesthesia, and EMS products. For more than 26 years, Tri-anim has met the needs and exceeded the expectations of providers throughout the healthcare continuum, including hospitals, long-term care facilities, surgery centers, nursing homes and emergency medical services (EMS). Tri-anim is an industry leader in providing e-commerce solutions that make it faster and more efficient for customers to procure medical products. The company introduced the industry’s first Internet catalog in 1995, and has a patent pending on the e-Quick® System, a technology that requires less than 45 seconds to place a five-line order. For more information, contact www.tri-anim.com.

About Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX)

Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX) is an Internet-based trading exchange from which hospitals can purchase products more easily, quickly and accurately than ever before. GHX has built a normalized, verified industry-standard catalog, which will take advantage of deep connectivity between GHX, hospitals, and suppliers to improve efficiencies and add value throughout the healthcare supply chain. The privately held company was founded in March 2000 and its membership now includes hundreds of members, representing hospitals, integrated delivery networks (IDNs), manufacturers, GPOs and distributors. Equity owners of GHX include Johnson & Johnson; GE Medical Systems; Baxter International, Inc.; Abbott Laboratories; Medtronic, Inc.; AmerisourceBergen Corporation; Becton, Dickinson & Co.; Boston Scientific Corporation; Cardinal Health, Inc.; C.R. Bard, Inc.; Fisher Scientific International Inc.; Guidant Corporation; McKesson Corporation; Siemens Medical Solutions and Tyco International, Ltd. For more information visit www.ghx.com.