Executive Conference
March 6-9, 2012
Four Seasons Resort & Club
Dallas, TX
Manufacturers Seminar
May 29-31, 2012
Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel
Chicago, IL
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The HIDA Educational Foundation is a non-profit organization affiliated with the Health Industry Distributors Association.
Our Mission
The mission of the HIDA Educational Foundation is to build a more effective and efficient healthcare supply channel through networking, business intelligence, and educational opportunities for industry participants.
Foundation Objectives
Foundation priorities include:
- Providing forums where industry participants can mind-share, make connections, and develop supply chain solutions
- Producing research and business intelligence relevant to medical products distribution
- Educating healthcare distributors, manufacturers, and customers about healthcare and supply chain issues
Foundation Programs
The Foundation produces and/or provides funding for:
- Market reports providing insights on specific healthcare customer segments
- Annual Physician Market Report
- Annual Extended Care Market Report
- Annual Acute Care Market Report
- Ambulatory Surgery Center Market Report
- Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) Market Report
- Surveys and studies offering benchmarks and trend analysis
- Annual Distributor Financial Performance Survey
- Physician Spend Survey
- Hospital Procurement Study
- Employee Compensation Report
- Warehouse Operations Survey
- Emerging trends reports which dig deeper into issues critical to healthcare suppliers and customers
- Pandemic Operations Guide
- Dealing with Disasters, Hurricane Katrina & Beyond: Lessons Learned in Medical Distribution
- Preparing for Pandemics: Avian Flu and the Healthcare Supply Chain
- EMR and More: The Changing Landscape
- ADVANCE Sales Training course development, designed to improve the ability of distributor and manufacturer sales reps to solve customer problems
- 13-course Core Curriculum
- Growing Masters Curriculum on topics including Emerging Health Technologies, Fundamentals of GPOs and Healthcare Contracting, Bloodborne Pathogens and Healthcare Worker Safety Legal Issues in Healthcare Sales, Rapid Diagnostics, and more
- Industry education events
- Annual Executive Conference
- Manufacturers Seminar “How to Build Powerful Relationships with Your Distributors”
- Education program at annual HIDA MedSurg Conference & Expo
- Annual Operations Conference
- Annual Healthcare Distribution Summit
- HIDA’s online training resources found on this Web site
Supporting the HIDA Educational Foundation
The Foundation receives financial support from members of the HIDA Educational Foundation Associates Program, some 130 manufacturers and industry service firms committed to improving the healthcare supply chain. Associates Program Members
If your company works with healthcare distribution, the Foundation Associates Program is a great way to contribute to the industry while building visibility, gaining new networking contacts, and accessing valuable industry information.
Information on Joining the Foundation Associates Program
HIDA Educational Foundation Board of Directors
List of HIDA Educational Foundation Associates
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