Hilton Publishing Company (HPC)

What Hilton Publishing Company (HPC) does

Hilton Publishing Company (HPC), operating legally as HPC International, Inc., is a private healthcare education management company founded in 1996 and headquartered in the United States. The company targets US hospital systems, providing a centralized Education Management System that consolidates the procurement, administration, and oversight of continuing education, professional development, subscriptions, medical books, training materials, and library services. Its core proposition is reducing wasteful decentralized spending — the company estimates hospitals may overspend by roughly $1 million annually on an average $10 million education budget — through managed services and volume leverage.

The product portfolio is coordinated through the proprietary HPC S.M.A.R.T. Hub platform, a cloud-hosted portal requiring no IT integration from clients. Five core services sit on top of the Hub: Education Manager (managed-service oversight of education spending with multi-year contracts), Librarian (medical librarian support in tiered hours-based subscriptions), Subscription Manager (subscription tracking and renewal coordination), Booksource Plus Distribution (online book and training material marketplace), and Book Manager (centralized book procurement). The company also resells clinical reference subscriptions such as Lexicomp/UpToDate Lexidrug and offers PinPoint patient education tools. Named customers include Maimonides Medical Center, The Queen's Health Systems, Franciscan Alliance, Henry Ford Health, and Sinai-Grace Hospital.

HPC generates revenue through a mix of one-time book sales, recurring subscription services (monthly and annual cycles), and managed services priced on spend volume or support hours. Distribution operates through direct enterprise field sales, an e-commerce storefront, and GPO partnerships. The company holds distribution alliances with major medical publishers including the American Medical Association, American Heart Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, AAPC, Wolters Kluwer, Optum360, and Krames. With a headcount of 11-50 employees and 25+ years of operating history, HPC is a small, specialized niche operator rather than a scaled enterprise software platform.

Name

Hilton Publishing Company (HPC)

Legal name

HPC International, Inc.

Website

https://hpcinternationalinc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1996

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Hilton Publishing Company (HPC) is a US-based healthcare education management firm that centralizes purchasing, subscriptions, and library services for hospital systems via its proprietary S.M.A.R.T. Hub platform, generating 20-30% average cost savings.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Münster

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Book Sales: Sale of medical books, e-books, training products, and educational materials through the HPC online store. Includes products from major medical publishers like AMA, AHA, AAPC, Wolters Kluwer, and HPC's own Hilton Publishing titles.
2. Subscription Services: Recurring subscription revenue from services including Lexicomp drug databases, Personal Librarian library services, and PinPoint patient education tools. Offered on monthly and annual billing cycles.
3. Education Manager Service: Premium administrative support service centralizing and managing all healthcare education and training category spending. Pricing appears to be based on spend volume managed (Tier 3 shown at $67,500 for up to $1.5M in spend).
4. Librarian Services: Medical librarian support services providing library management, research assistance, and subscription coordination. Tiered pricing based on hours of monthly support (Tier 1: 3 hrs/mo at $1,859.99/yr, Tier 4: 12 hrs/mo at $6,999.99/yr).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

HPC provides a healthcare Education Management System for hospital systems that centralizes continuing education spending, library management, subscription procurement, and medical book purchasing through its proprietary S.M.A.R.T. Hub platform. The offering combines five integrated managed services (Education Manager, Librarian, Subscription Manager, Booksource Plus Distribution, and Book Manager) that consolidate decentralized education-related purchasing and administration under a single outsourced partner.

Product overview

HPC offers a comprehensive Healthcare Education Management System designed specifically for hospital systems. The portfolio consists of six interconnected products coordinated through the HPC S.M.A.R.T. Hub platform: Education Manager (centralized oversight of education spending), Librarian (medical librarian services), Subscription Manager (subscription procurement), Booksource Plus Distribution (direct book purchasing), and Book Manager (book purchasing management). Together, these solutions enable hospitals to reduce costs by 20-30% annually, centralize purchasing, and streamline administrative processes for continuing education and training resources.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• HPC S.M.A.R.T. Hub: Proprietary centralized platform for managing hospital education, subscriptions, books, and library services
• HPC Education Manager
• HPC Librarian
• HPC Subscription Manager
• HPC Booksource Plus Distribution
• HPC Book Manager

Products and services

• HPC Education Manager Premium managed service for hospital systems that centralizes and guarantees the lowest price on the entire healthcare education and training category spend, with administrative support for staff including memberships, associations, subscriptions, courses, workshops, and conferences.
• HPC Librarian Expert medical librarian support service providing a full suite of healthcare library management services including subscription negotiation, literature searches, clinical research assistance, and accreditation compliance support, offered in tiered monthly support hours.
• HPC Subscription Manager Service that centralizes and guarantees the lowest price on all book, training product, and healthcare educational subscription purchases, including tracking and management of subscription renewals.
• HPC Booksource Plus Distribution Online marketplace-style service for ordering medical books and healthcare training materials with centralized ordering and negotiated pricing through HPC's buyer network, available 24/7.
• HPC Book Manager Service that centralizes and guarantees the lowest price on all book and healthcare training product purchases, reducing the administrative burden on hospital staff for sourcing and procurement.

Quantifiable outcome

• 20-30% overall annual cost reductions on healthcare education spending
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• American Heart Association (AHA)coreOthersHPC serves as a distributor for AHA training materials including CPR, BLS, ACLS, PALS courses, manikin supplies, and certification materials. Products include provider manuals, instructor packages, training kits, and AED equipment.
• American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)coreOthersHPC distributes AAP publications including Nelson's Pediatric Antimicrobial Therapy, Bright Futures guidelines, and pediatric care resources.
• American Medical Association (AMA)coreOthersHPC distributes AMA medical coding resources including CPT Professional, HCPCS Level II, and ICD-10-CM code sets.
• AAPCcoreOthersHPC distributes AAPC medical coding study guides, code sets, and certification preparation materials for CPC and other coding credentials.
• Wolters Kluwer (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)coreOthersHPC distributes Wolters Kluwer nursing, medical, and healthcare textbooks including Lippincott nursing references and clinical resources.
• Lexi-Comp Inc. (now UpToDate Lexidrug)coreTechnology or IntegrationHPC offers Lexicomp/Lexidrug subscriptions providing drug information databases, medical calculators, and clinical decision support tools for healthcare professionals.
• Optum360coreOthersHPC distributes Optum360 medical coding books and references including ICD-10-CM, CPT, and HCPCS code guides.
• Krames (Stay Well Company)coreOthersHPC distributes Krames patient education materials including cardiology booklets, disease management guides, and patient handouts.
• Scientific Publishing LtdminorOthersHPC distributes Scientific Publishing anatomical charts and visual aids for medical education and patient communication.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• HealthStream: HealthStream is a publicly-traded healthcare workforce learning and talent management platform serving hospitals and health systems. It is a much larger incumbent that addresses HPC's continuing-education and credentialing category with broader workforce solutions, but at significantly greater scale.
• Elsevier (ClinicalKey / Shadow Health): Elsevier is a global medical publisher and clinical decision support provider whose content and learning tools are procured by the same hospital buyers HPC serves. It is both an HPC publisher-adjacent competitor and a comparable reference-content ecosystem.
• Wolters Kluwer (Lippincott): Wolters Kluwer's Lippincott division is a major medical publisher whose nursing and clinical textbooks HPC distributes. Wolters Kluwer is both a content partner to HPC and a potential competitor as publishers increasingly offer direct enterprise licensing and learning platforms to hospitals.

Emerging players

• Krames (Staywell): Krames (a Staywell Company) is a patient education content provider whose materials HPC distributes. It overlaps with HPC's distribution business for patient education and library content and could expand into broader hospital education management.
• CE Direct (Joint Commission Resources): CE Direct, operated by Joint Commission Resources, provides continuing education and compliance training for healthcare professionals. It overlaps with HPC's continuing-education content distribution and is a competitor for the same hospital CE spend.

Direct peers

• Relias: Relias is a healthcare-focused online training, education, and workforce compliance platform serving hospitals, post-acute, and behavioral health providers. Like HPC, it sells continuing education and compliance content directly into hospital systems, making it a direct competitor in the healthcare education spend category.
• MedBridge: MedBridge is a healthcare-specific continuing education and training platform for clinicians. It targets the same hospital continuing-education buyer as HPC and represents a more digital-native alternative to HPC's hybrid book/subscription/services model.
• EBSCO (EBSCO Health / Dynamic Health): EBSCO provides medical library content, evidence-based clinical decision tools, and journal/package management to hospital libraries. It directly competes with HPC's Librarian service line for hospital library budgets and reference procurement.

Others

• Vizient (GPO): Vizient is a major healthcare group purchasing organization (GPO) that negotiates education and procurement contracts for member hospitals. HPC already distributes through GPO channels; Vizient represents both a distribution partner and a potential consolidator that could absorb HPC-style managed services.

Regional players

• Lexicomp / UpToDate Lexidrug (Wolters Kluwer): Lexicomp (now UpToDate Lexidrug by Wolters Kluwer) is a clinical drug reference subscription that HPC resells. As the underlying publisher, it could also pursue direct hospital contracts, representing a structural channel alternative for the same content HPC distributes.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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