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Get Involved in Strengthening Healthcare Resiliency

HIRC is a neutral, member-led collaborative that turns shared industry expectations into sourcing-ready standards, tools, and signals that protect continuity of patient care.

Organizations engage with HIRC by adopting standards — and by joining as members to help govern and advance them.

Why Participation Matters

Healthcare resiliency breaks down when expectations are fragmented, diligence is duplicative, and risk signals are inconsistent. HIRC addresses this by aligning the industry around shared standards that can actually be used in procurement and operations.

Two Ways to Get Involved

Membership ensures HIRC standards remain industry-led and continuously improved.

Adopt HIRC Standards

Adoption drives consistency and legitimacy across the healthcare supply chain.

What this means

  • Use HIRC resiliency and transparency signals in sourcing
  • Align to shared industry expectations
  • Begin reducing bespoke diligence and duplicate requests

Join as a Member

Membership ensures HIRC standards remain industry-led, credible, and continuously improved.

What this means

  • Shape standards and delivery priorities
  • Participate in councils, work groups, and pilots
  • Sustain neutral governance and industry stewardship

What’s in it for you

Providers

  • Procurement-ready signals for sourcing decisions.
  • Site-level visibility and deployable standards.
  • Faster procurements and clearer supplier comparability.

Suppliers

  • Share data once; earn publishable badges.
  • Credible buyer engagement and reduced duplicate diligence.
  • Tools for remediation and market visibility.

GPOs & Partners

  • Standards-aligned data layer for integration and pilots.
  • Co-design and scaling opportunities.
  • Reduced duplicate diligence across workflows.

Why Membership Is Essential

  • Members govern standards, priorities, and delivery
  • Membership sustains neutral operations and tooling
  • Members ensure standards evolve with real-world use

Member Benefits

  • Learn & Deploy – Academy, playbooks, scorecards
  • Data & Visibility – Vault access, sourcing-ready signals
  • Influence & Network – councils, pilots, peer collaboration
  • Outcomes – less duplicate diligence, clearer decisions

Lead by Example

Join the HIRC member community and help govern the standards
that protect healthcare supply chains and patient care.