About Us
Healthcare Industry Resilience Collaborative (HIRC) is the pre-eminent non-profit consortium for patient-centric healthcare supply chain resiliency standards and best practices. Our mission is to increase resiliency and transparency in healthcare supply chains through collaboration, standards, and best practices for continuity of patient care.
In 2019, a group of health systems and trading partners came together led by Mayo Clinic and Corewell Health. This group focused on cross-industry collaboration tied to creating a more resilient supply chain centered on partnership and transparency.
Today, HIRC has grown to more than 90 health systems, suppliers and industry partners. HIRC is a non-competitive, non-exclusive and member-driven organization where leaders in this space convene to improve supply chain resiliency for the industry.
Our Impact
- Simplify path to resilience.
- Align operationally to reinforce common industry goals.
- Deliver programs that support member adoption of resiliency practices.
- Drive broad industry adoption of standards to accelerate healthcare resiliency.
Our Results
- Clear measures and incentives for sustainable resilient operations. Less fracturing and duplication.
- Industry norms to drive proactive risk management.
- Reduction in supply chain disruption frequency and impact. Increased coordination and efficiency.
A Clinician’s Perspective
As global sourcing, manufacturing, and distribution of medical supplies have grown over the last several decades, the vulnerability of these supply chains has concomitantly increased.
Shortages of critical medications and medical supplies have unfortunately become commonplace as limitations in supply chain resiliency have been repeatedly exposed. The issues stemming from medical supply chain vulnerability did not develop overnight. Rather, narrow margins in healthcare have led to price sensitivity and cost reductions. These cost reductions have driven value stream vulnerability. Unfortunately, the supply chains and their vulnerabilities have largely been invisible to purchasers. Healthcare organizations have compensated for medical supply chain vulnerability by stockpiling or risk incurring adverse patient outcomes in the event of a shortage. Both of these are expensive propositions which could have been averted if the products were purchased in a manner that incentivized a resilient supply chain.
In order to reverse these trends, the Healthcare Industry Resilience Collaborative (HIRC) was founded to champion standards and best practice under a partnership model.
Thank you to our continuing founding members:
Providers: AdventHealth, BJC HealthCare, Corewell Health, Mayo Clinic, Northwestern Medicine, and Stanford HealthCare.
Suppliers: Baxter Healthcare, Cardinal Health, Johnson & Johnson, Medline, Medtronic, and Stryker.
HIRC is uniquely positioned to create a common place for suppliers, providers, GPOs, industry forums, and academics to work in transparent and open dialog. This is how we collectively will change and improve healthcare resiliency.
Tom Harvieux
CSCO BJC HealthCare & Officer
2024 Board
Tom Lubotsky
Vice President Supply Chain
Allina Health
Jeremy How
Corporate Vice President Sales Operations
B Braun
Alan Mavis
Senior Director, National Accounts
Baxter
Tom Harvieux
Chief Supply Chain Officer
BJC HealthCare
Mary Byrne
Vice President, Supply Chain
Cardinal Health
Geoff Gates
Senior Director, SCSS P2P & Technology
Cleveland Clinic
Tina Hanson
System Director Supply Chain Distribution
CommonSpirit Health
Andrea Poulopoulos
Vice President, Procurement
Corewell Health
Bill Moir
Senior Vice President Supply Chain and Support Services
Henry Ford Health
Lisa Hogan
Director of Value Analysis
Mayo Clinic
Joe Robinson
Vice President, Enterprise Risk and Facilities
Medtronic
Andy Hamilton
Assistant Vice President, Supply Chain
MultiCare Health System
Regine Villain
SVP, Chief Supply Chain & Support Services Officer
Ochsner Health
Katie Dean
Vice President – Supply Chain Strategy, Programs, and Business
Stanford Health Care
Justin Griggs
Senior Clinical Resource Officer
Vanderbilt Health
Katie Korte
Vice President, Assurance & Continuity
Vizient
2024 Officers
Katie Dean
Chair
Tom Lubotsky
Chair-Elect
Tom Harvieux
Past Chair
Joe Robinson
Treasurer
Alan Mavis
Secretary
2024 Supplier Advisory Council
Jeremy How
Corporate Vice President Sales Operations
B Braun
Alan Mavis
Senior Director, National Accounts
Baxter
Tanvi Narang
Director, Supply Chain Resiliency & Customer Excellence
BD
Pete Bennett
Senior Vice President, Global Logistics
Cardinal Health
Ross Harvey
Vice President – Global Supply Chain
Cook Medical
Hilarie Letson
Executive, Business Continuity & Resiliency
GE Healthcare
Lars Thording
Vice President, Marketing & Public Affairs
Innovative Health
John Clarke
Director Global Deliver Value Chain Risk Management
Johnson & Johnson
Peter Saviola
Vice President Supply Chain Optimization
Medline
Scott Wilson
Program Director – Americas Distribution
Medtronic
Kevin Steed
Vice President/General Manager
Stryker
Staff
Jesse Schafer
Executive Director
Amy Kenninger
Program Director
