The Transparency Badge is the industry standard for sharing risk assessment and mapping information with provider customers.  Transparency elevates partnership and enables proactive communication.  When included in the sourcing decision, it drives industry commitment to transparency.  This council aims to make transparency table stakes.

Healthcare is historically less transparent than other industries.  Low transparency can impede trust and proactive solutions.  This Council aims to make the Transparency Badge table stakes in sourcing decisions.  As needed, the scope and role of the badge may evolve to address changing market needs.

• Mapping unlocks monitoring and proactive joint response
• Risk assessment ensures basics in place and continuous improvement

• Alignment – Achieve stakeholder alignment on transparency standards
• Messaging – Raise awareness and educate the healthcare community
• Sourcing – Integrate transparency into sourcing processes
• Platform – Ensure HIRC Vault is configured securely

• Standardize data scope and format via Excel
• Enable easy one-to-many sharing via HIRC Vault
• Augment with partner abilities
• Simplify communications

Raise awareness and educate the healthcare community

• Create playbook / how-to-guide
• Create pitch deck / sell sheet
• Increase industry visibility (media, conferences, etc.)

Standardize Data Scope & Format

• Publish Excel templates for loading into HIRC Vault

Simplify Workflow

• Enable easy sharing with third parties through HIRC Vault

Recruit interested suppliers

• Provider outreach

Integrate Transparency Badging into Procurement Processes

Encourage providers to incorporate transparency badge criteria into RFP and QBR processes, prioritizing supplier with active transparency using the HIRC Resiliency T&C’s

Secure Provider and GPO Support / Alignment

Obtain provider buy-in and secure agreements with GPOs to standardize and promote the transparency badge program as a key sourcing criterion across the industry.

Assumptions

• Providers desire to elevate transparency in sourcing
• GPOs willing to align with national standard
• Badge value is understood
• Data scope is properly balanced
• Providers avoid one-off requests

Constraints

• Adoption may be constrained by competing priorities
• Provider Vault access dependent upon membership

• Increasing provider/GPO adoption
• Increasing supplier pursuit
• Greater industry transparency
• Single national repository for geographic and risk assessment data
• Badge simplifies and mobilizes data sharing

• Badge is expected
• Providers/GPO reinforce in sourcing workflow
• Suppliers experience value
• Provider/GPO alignment
• Clear messaging
• Consistent reinforcement
• Confidentiality and security are high

• % of providers who have integrated transparency into their competitive bid and performance review processes
• % of providers assigning points
• % increase in transparency-based sourcing decisions
• Number of suppliers recruited and participating
• Number of participating GPOs
• % integration into GPO competitive bid workflow

• Hesitance to share
• Resistance to using HIRC Vault
• Slow or incomplete Provider adoption
• Delayed GPO alignment
• Competitive market programs
• Low market response to existing badges
• Low risk scores that may not improve
• Data may be interpreted out of context
• Incomplete knowledge on how to benefit from the data