The Healthcare Supply Chain Standards Coalition, a collaborative of organizations representing the healthcare supply chain, announced that Owens & Minor, Inc. (Richmond, Va.) and Cardinal Health (Dublin, Ohio) are the newest companies to join. The group seeks to enable the efficient delivery of quality patient care through the adoption of industry data standards. It has now has 28 members.
"The participation of these two leading companies is instrumental to the continued success of the standards movement in the healthcare supply chain," said Joseph Dudas, chair of the Standards Coalition and Mayo Clinic's director of accounting and supply chain informatics. "Success for this initiative is contingent upon all partners in the healthcare supply chain embracing and adopting a unified set of globally accepted standards."