NDC COORDINATION AND IMPLEMENTATION FORUM
For Hospitals and Health Systems
NDC transition touches your EHR, your pharmacy, your revenue cycle, and your clinical teams, all at once.
FDA's 12-digit NDC format takes effect in 2033, and it crosses more internal departments than almost any other regulatory change your organization has faced. Clinical, pharmacy, IT, and supply chain all touch NDCs separately, with no single owner. The NDC Forum is where health systems coordinate that internal complexity against a shared external framework, with unlimited participants per membership.
The Challenge
Like pharmacies, health systems manage both the physical product and the data behind it, but across a far wider set of systems and stakeholders. Dispensing, inventory, reimbursement, purchasing, formulary management, EHRs, and clinical decision support all touch NDCs somewhere, often in systems your clinical, operational, supply chain, and technology teams manage separately. NDC-12 doesn't respect those organizational boundaries, which means your coordination problem is internal before it's external.
A change in one system (EHR, pharmacy management, revenue cycle) can break assumptions built into another
Clinical decision support and medication history depend on consistent product identification across every system that touches a drug record
Purchasing and formulary management depend on external vendor and GPO readiness you don't directly control
The internal coordination challenge across clinical, operational, and IT teams is often harder than the external one
How the Forum Helps
Coordinate planning across clinical, operational, supply chain, and technology teams, using a shared external framework instead of building one from scratch internally.
See how peer health systems and vendors are approaching implementation, so your internal plan reflects what's actually working elsewhere.
Get visibility into EHR, pharmacy system, and vendor timelines that directly affect your own readiness window.
Bring a single, coordinated voice into cross-sector and regulatory conversations, rather than each department engaging separately.
Why a Readiness Checklist From Your Inventory Vendor Isn't the Whole Answer
Supply-chain and inventory platform vendors are publishing genuinely useful readiness checklists right now, including questions worth asking about where NDCs live in your systems and whether they'll survive the format change. Answer those questions internally, and you'll know a lot about your own hospital.
A checklist from a single software vendor is scoped to what their platform can see: your inventory system, maybe your ordering system. It has no visibility into your EHR vendor's timeline, your GPO's contract terms, or your wholesaler's readiness.
Health systems have more internally fragmented ownership of this problem than almost any other stakeholder — clinical, pharmacy, IT, and supply chain all touch NDCs separately. A vendor checklist for one of those teams doesn't coordinate the other three.
The real risk for health systems isn't failing an internal checklist. It's discovering, after your own systems are ready, that a vendor or GPO partner three tiers removed from your IT team isn't.
The Forum is where health systems get a single coordinated view across clinical, pharmacy, IT, and supply chain, and across the external vendors and partners none of those teams can unilaterally hold accountable.
Membership covers unlimited participants from your organization, which matters here more than almost anywhere else, since this problem crosses clinical, pharmacy, IT, and supply chain teams that rarely sit in the same room. One membership gets all of them into Strike Forces and testing coordination together, instead of each department negotiating separate access.
Get Involved
Organizational Membership
Annual Membership
$5,000
per organization
Unlimited participants from your organization
Access to all quarterly forums, strike forces, and other events
Full access to tools, outputs, and shared resources
Per-Participant Access
Virtual
Quarterly Forums
$399
per person
In-Person
Forums
TBD
per person
Attend quarterly forums on a per-person basis, ideal for organizations exploring participation before committing to full membership.
2026 Forum Dates:
September 23
December 8-9
Strike force participation available to organizational members only.