Global Healthcare Exchange

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Global Healthcare Exchange
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• What are the characteristics and advantages of a
  neutral, third-party exchange?

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• What are the key trends in healthcare industry
  that led to the formation of GHX?
• Rising costs
• Increasing power of managed care organizations
• Increasing consolidation
• Shift from inpatient to outpatient
• Rise of group purchasing organizations (GPO)
• Labor shortage
• An aging population
• Foreign Markets under stress

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• Government regulation
• Innovation
• Privacy and security
• Multi-Tiered industry structure
• Increased value of information
• Online marketplaces respond

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What were the key components of healthcare
industry value chain?

• Exhibit 3b page 19

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• How has GHX responded to key industry trends?

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• Trace the evolution of GHX strategies, business
  models, and technology solutions.
• Key strategies?
• Business models?
• Technology solutions?

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• How has GHX evolved to support collaborative
  commerce?

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• What are the unique characteristics of GHX as an
  LLP instead of a public start-up company?  
• How will its organization and governance
  structure enhance or constrain its future
  expansion?