The adage, “You’re only as good as your weakest link” is manifested within the healthcare supply chain. GPOs, distributors, and manufacturers are key links in the healthcare supply chain, and your supply chain depends on their products and services to deliver value to your organization. Gather with your IDN supply chain peers as you examine issues impacting the healthcare supply chain during Sponsored Education Sessions at the Spring IDN Summit. These invitation-only sessions allow host companies the chance to highlight breakthroughs in the changing atmosphere of the healthcare supply chain.
Content will either be in Boardroom Discussion or Focus Group format, noted below each host's logo.
Provider Focused by Invitation Only.
DIAMOND SPONSORS
Boardroom Discussion | Kissimmee
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Cook Supply Chain Fellowship: Strengthening Healthcare Supply Chains Through Value Stream Mapping
Learn how Cook and IU Health partner to drive resiliency, efficiency, and sustainable best practices for organizational strategy.
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
The Power of Listening: Aligning Clinical, Commercial, and Industry with Data and AI Insights
Learn how we are listening to your feedback to streamline product launches, reduce friction, accelerate timelines, to help improve provider efficiency.
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Artificial Intelligence: Our Approach to Emerging Technology
Our AI expert shares how this technology can help solve healthcare supply chain challenges, enhance customer experience, and potential ways to collaborate on future opportunities.
Boardroom Discussion | Allendale A
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM | 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Exam Room to Boardroom: Where Healthcare Decisions Collide
Join a candid, executive-level discussion on how today’s healthcare leaders weigh competing priorities. Moderated by Blair Childs, this panel of senior leaders examines the national pressures and local realities shaping decision-making—and what it takes to influence outcomes across complex health systems.
Boardroom Discussion | Heritage Park
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Why Now? Building the Intelligent Healthcare Supply Chain for What’s Next
Why healthcare must modernize fragmented data, outdated supply chains, and reactive decision-making—building an intelligent enterprise platform for measurable performance.
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
From Partnerships to Platform: The Intelligence Layer Powering Healthcare’s Future
How Premier’s unified decision intelligence platform integrates AI, analytics, and governance—turning partnerships into operational, enterprise-scale performance.
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
When Intelligence Works: Turning AI Into Measurable Healthcare Performance
Real-world use cases showing how embedded AI guides decisions, validates savings, and accelerates execution across healthcare supply chain and operations.
Boardroom Discussion | Harmony
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Understanding Orthopaedic Trauma: The Category
Explore what makes orthopaedic trauma unique and how understanding the category helps strengthen performance, support clinicians, and drive smarter decisions across your organization.
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Understanding Orthopaedic Trauma: Data & Insights
Discover the data vendors should provide and how clear, organized insights support confident, informed decisions in orthopaedic trauma contracting.
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Understanding Orthopaedic Trauma: Smart Contracting
Explore flexible contracting strategies that support financial goals and clinical alignment, featuring real-world case studies with Douglas Dirschl, MD and Anita Zado, BSN, RN, CVAHP.
Boardroom Discussion | Celebration
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM | 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
The Millions You’re Losing in Supply Chain
Fragmented systems, manual processes, and weak data governance limit financial performance. Discover how Vizient Procure-to-Pay solutions improve price accuracy, automate workflows, standardize item file data, and connect disparate systems to deliver measurable savings and strategic supply chain impact.
PLATINUM SPONSORS
Focus Group | St. Cloud A
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM
From Watchlists to Savings: Modern Pharmacy Oversight
Learn how real-time pricing analytics track parity gaps, buying patterns, and market shifts to protect margins and control pharmacy spend.
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Capturing Every Dollar: Modernizing Rebate Visibility
Learn how automatically tracking simple and complex rebates improves compliance, uncovers missed dollars, and enables strategic purchasing decisions.
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Cost per Case Visibility for Clinically Integrated Supply Chain
Explore how clinical analytics connects utilization patterns, physician variation, and supply spend to uncover savings while maintaining clinical outcomes.
Boardroom Discussion | Seminole A
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM | 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
AI-Powered Autonomy: Real-Time Visibility and the Future of Inventory Management in 2026
In 2026, leaders are adopting autonomous supply chains. This session explores Vision AI as a self-managing "brain" for automated reordering and examines how transparent data sharing ensures regulatory compliance. Learn to merge AI-driven autonomy with visibility to eliminate stockouts.
Boardroom Discussion | Partin B
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM | 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Resiliency in Action: Accelerating Performance with Connected Intelligence
In today’s volatile environment, reactive decisions cost time and money. GHX ResiliencyAI embeds connected intelligence into workflows, delivering earlier risk visibility, faster insights and smarter actions that strengthen performance, protect margins and give leaders a decisive operational edge. Move from Risk to Advantage.
Focus Group | Lanier A
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Leading Through Disruption: The Real Path to P2P Maturity
Through candid Q&A, this session shares one leader’s real journey navigating disruption, silos, and change, revealing how alignment, data, and frontline insight drive high-functioning P2P performance in health systems today.
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Leading Through Disruption: The Real Path to P2P Maturity
Through candid Q&A, this session shares one leader’s real journey navigating disruption, silos, and change, revealing how alignment, data, and frontline insight drive high-functioning P2P performance in health systems today.
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Pharmacy Procurement Intelligence: Driving Value Through Automation
Discover how Trulla delivers real time pharmacy procurement intelligence through automation, helping health systems reduce drug spend, improve compliance, and drive measurable supply chain value.
Focus Group | Seminole B
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM | 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Solving Purchased Services Complexities: How OSF HealthCare Automated Cost Controls
Most health systems rely on invoice audits to recover losses and overpayments, paying contingency fees to recover your own money. This focus group, led by Dave Fergus of OSF HealthCare, explores how organizations are shifting from audits to pre-payment contract enforcement - validating invoices against agreed terms, surfacing exceptions early, and strengthening cost control in real time.
Boardroom Discussion | St. Cloud B
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM | 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Leveraging Scale and Innovative Tech to Drive Supply Chain Resilience
This session shows how scale, AI, and automation strengthen supply chain and HTM resilience by standardizing workflows, reducing variability and hidden costs, improving vendor management, and delivering immediate ROI—ultimately boosting operational continuity, financial performance, and clinical capacity.
Boardroom Discussion | Partin A
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM | 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Valify Insights: Transform the Way You Analyze Purchased Services
Valify Insights helps healthcare organizations control purchased services spend with clear, GPO‑agnostic visibility. It guides supply chain teams on what to tackle next, uncovering savings and prioritizing initiatives. This session shows how Valify Score identifies high‑impact “quick wins” and shares real client results.
Need more information? Please contact Josh Morita, or call 859.523.5701
Josh Morita | EVP
P: 859.523.5701