Premier

Premier, Inc. is a healthcare improvement company based in Charlotte, North Carolina, focusing on enhancing supply chain management and reducing healthcare costs across the United States. It operates through two main segments: Supply Chain Services and Performance Services. The Supply Chain Services segment provides access to a wide range of products and services, including medical supplies, pharmaceuticals, and capital equipment, alongside various purchased services such as clinical engineering. Additionally, it offers collaborative services and e-commerce solutions to streamline procurement and address potential drug shortages. The Performance Services segment utilizes its technology platform, PremierConnect, to support healthcare organizations in managing value-based care, regulatory compliance, and performance improvement. Premier’s collaborative approach allows healthcare providers to leverage data and best practices to enhance quality outcomes while minimizing costs. The company is committed to transforming healthcare through innovation and strategic partnerships.

Leigh Anderson

COO

John Biggers

Senior Vice President, Group Purchasing

Craig McKasson

CFO and Chief Administrative Officer

21 past transactions

Qventus

Private Equity Round in 2022
Qventus, Inc. is an artificial intelligence software company that focuses on optimizing hospital operations through real-time data analytics. Established in 2011 and based in Los Altos, California, the company offers a platform that predicts operational issues, provides immediate recommendations, and encourages team members to take action. By utilizing machine learning and optimization algorithms, Qventus aims to enhance the efficiency and quality of healthcare delivery, addressing challenges across various hospital departments, including emergency services, operating rooms, and patient safety. The company collaborates with leading healthcare institutions to transform hospital management and improve overall operational decision-making.

Exela Pharma Sciences

Corporate Round in 2021
Developer of pharmaceutical products designed to improve patient outcomes while reducing overall healthcare costs. The company's products include generic injectable, ophthalmic, and inhalation drugs that have therapeutically effective formulations and are scaled up, enabling physicians to increase available treatment choices, while improving patients' quality of life and treatment experience.

Invoice Delivery Services

Acquisition in 2021
Developer of an electronic invoice delivery platform for healthcare industry. The company's procure-to-pay eCommerce platform manages electronic payment, invoicing, accounts payable and procurement, captures critical operational savings and provides transparency to day-to-day status of invoices, enabling healthcare facilities to maximize their working capital and seize significant discounts.

Prestige Ameritech

Corporate Round in 2020
Prestige Ameritech, Ltd. is a leading manufacturer of disposable medical products in the United States, specializing in surgical masks and related medical devices. The company produces a variety of facemasks, including options designed with anti-fog features, sensitive skin materials, and fluid-resistant capabilities, alongside N95 respirators. Additional offerings include medical face shields, goggles, gowns, and custom-printed masks. Prestige Ameritech also manufactures automated machinery for producing these products and supplies items for private-label distributors. The company, incorporated in 2000, operates from a 220,000 square foot facility near Fort Worth, Texas, and serves hospital customers primarily through distributors. With a commitment to quality, Prestige Ameritech has established itself as the largest domestic surgical mask manufacturer in the U.S.

Nexera

Acquisition in 2020
Nexera, Inc. is a healthcare consulting firm based in Charlotte, North Carolina, dedicated to enhancing the performance of hospitals and health systems. The company provides a range of tailored services, including workforce solutions, clinical supply chain integration, inventory and logistics management, and technology optimization. By employing a value-driven approach, Nexera aligns total costs and patient outcomes with financial reimbursements, ensuring that its solutions are customized to fit each client's unique resources and culture. The firm's goal is to advance healthcare improvement through effective supply chain management, ultimately generating sustainable results for its clients.

Acurity

Acquisition in 2020
Acurity is a group purchasing organization that aims to improve healthcare delivery by leveraging the collective buying power of its members. By acting as an intermediary between healthcare providers and suppliers, Acurity negotiates agreements that secure volume discounts, favorable pricing, and advantageous contract terms. This approach enables healthcare providers to enhance their supply chain performance, ultimately leading to better patient care and reduced operating expenses. The organization's focus is on facilitating optimal service levels and cost efficiency for its members, thereby supporting the overall effectiveness of healthcare services.

Medpricer

Acquisition in 2019
Medpricer develops a purchased services cost management solution tailored for the healthcare industry. The company's flagship platform, mSource, enables healthcare providers to discover, organize, benchmark, and manage their spending on service providers effectively. By offering precision benchmark reports, project management, and advisory services, Medpricer helps healthcare organizations enhance visibility and control over their expenses. This approach can lead to significant improvements in operating margins, with potential savings of up to 5%. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Guilford, Connecticut, Medpricer also has an office in Walnut Creek, California. As of October 2019, it operates as a subsidiary of Premier, Inc.

InsightRx

Series A in 2019
InsightRX is a cloud-based software platform that utilizes quantitative pharmacology and machine learning to enhance individualized treatment for patients. By providing clinical decision support tools at the point of care, the platform assists healthcare professionals in optimizing treatment decisions based on real-time patient data. InsightRX integrates clinically validated pharmacokinetic models, patient physiology, pharmacogenomics, drug concentrations, and biomarkers to refine dosing strategies. It also employs disease-based pharmacodynamics models to further inform treatment choices at both individual and population levels. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, InsightRX aims to improve treatment effectiveness and deliver direct benefits to patients through its innovative technology.

Stanson Health

Acquisition in 2018
Stanson Health, Inc. develops and markets clinical decision support solutions aimed at enhancing the efficiency of healthcare providers. The company offers an EMR-integrated platform that delivers real-time alerts within the physician's clinical workflow, coupled with analytics designed to guide decision-making and reduce unnecessary or inappropriate care. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Stanson Health aspires to transform care practices by equipping clinicians with timely and relevant information that influences their decisions. As of November 2018, Stanson Health operates as a subsidiary of Premier Healthcare Solutions, Inc.

Essensa Ventures

Acquisition in 2016
Essensa specialize in group purchasing in the continuum of care market, or institutional healthcare providers that are outside the acute care hospital or health system.

Innovatix

Acquisition in 2016
Innovatix operates as a supply chain solutions company and group purchasing organization (GPO) serving more than 32,000 facilities in multiple classes of trade, including senior living facilities (assisted living, continuing care retirement communities, independent living and skilled nursing), independent medical oncologists and pharmacies (home infusion, long-term care, mail order and retail).

Acro Pharmaceutical Services

Acquisition in 2016
Acro Pharmaceutical Services, established in 2006 by experienced professionals, operates as a national specialty pharmacy that focuses on delivering personalized healthcare management solutions. The company aims to promote the safe and cost-effective use of specialty medications for its clients. Acro's effective management of formulary for payor clients, along with its tailored services, enhances market share for pharmaceutical manufacturers. It serves as a reliable single source for pharmacy services, ensuring that physicians can provide their patients with the personalized attention they require. Additionally, Acro offers an online healthcare platform that facilitates prescription refills, prior authorization forms, and other related healthcare services, further streamlining the process for both healthcare providers and patients.

Bloodbuy

Venture Round in 2016
Bloodbuy is a Dallas, Texas-based healthcare technology company whose cloud-based platform connects hospitals and blood centers nationwide to ensure the efficient flow of lifesaving blood products to patients in need. By providing direct access to a diversified base of premier blood centers, Bloodbuy ensures that hospitals never overpay for blood products or encounter supply shortages. At the same time, Bloodbuy enables blood centers to reach and serve a broader base of hospitals and blood centers across the country; increasing inventory turns, eliminating waste, and accelerating growth. Bloodbuy is committed to enhancing patient outcomes, while lowering cost and improving operational efficiency within this mission critical healthcare vertical by equipping industry-leading organizations with easy-to-use and implement, cloud-based technology that delivers immediate results.

InflowHealth

Acquisition in 2015
InflowHealth is develops a SaaS-based software that improves operational and financial performance of physician practices.

Healthcare Insights

Acquisition in 2015
Healthcare Insights, LLC provides financial management software solutions for hospitals and healthcare-related businesses. It offers INSIGHTS that enables small to large healthcare organizations to define, establish, and monitor financial and non-financial goals. The company also provides INSIGHTS Cloud that enables healthcare organizations to transition business decision support processes from on-premise servers to secure access on the Web. In addition, it offers educational training and business application consulting services. Healthcare Insights, LLC was founded in 2000 and is based in Libertyville, Illinois. As of July 31, 2015, Healthcare Insights, LLC operates as a subsidiary of Premier Healthcare Solutions, Inc.

CECity

Acquisition in 2015
Healthcare Performance Improvement

Aperek

Acquisition in 2014
Aperek is a provider of web-based analytics and savings solutions specifically designed for the healthcare supply chain. The company offers Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products that focus on enhancing supply chain management within the healthcare sector. By leveraging data analytics, Aperek aims to help healthcare organizations optimize their supply chain operations, improve efficiency, and achieve cost savings.

TheraDoc

Acquisition in 2014
TheraDoc, Inc., a subsidiary of Hospira, Inc., specializes in electronic clinical surveillance for healthcare organizations nationwide. Founded in 1999 by clinicians and medical informatics experts, TheraDoc pioneered the development of technology that integrates diverse data from hospital systems to alert clinicians about potential risks. This capability enhances clinical outcomes, reduces costs, and supports regulatory compliance. The company's platform utilizes advanced informatics to help healthcare teams protect patients and optimize their performance. TheraDoc has maintained its status as a leader in electronic clinical surveillance technology since its acquisition by Hospira in 2009.

MEMdata

Acquisition in 2014
MEMdata is a technology management firm based in College Station, Texas, specializing in services for both existing and under-construction medical facilities. The company offers a comprehensive range of services, including equipment budgeting, procurement, specifications, space planning, interior design, and initial outfitting. Additionally, MEMdata provides consulting on capital equipment procurement policies and procedures. Its primary goal is to help medical facilities reduce capital equipment costs, achieving an average savings of 18% on total budgets. The firm caters to various professionals within the healthcare sector, including CEOs, CFOs, Materials Managers, and Architects. With a client base that spans 42 U.S. states, as well as Canada and Mexico, MEMdata employs electronic processing and proprietary databases to enhance its technology management services.

Meddius

Acquisition in 2013
Meddius is a healthcare integration technology company that operates a platform which simplifies information sharing across healthcare providers. The company’s Integration Router is a rack-mountable, highly-scalable integration appliance built specifically to enable hospitals and healthcare vendors to quickly add real-time, intelligent system-to-system message routing capabilities to their networks. Meddius was launched by Jeff Gunther in March 2006 and is based in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Activate Networks

Series B in 2012
Activate Networks, Inc. is a network analytics company focused on identifying and understanding key social connections that influence commercial, organizational, and health outcomes. The company offers a suite of analytics products and software that helps organizations leverage existing data to uncover the commercial value of their customer, prospect, voter, and employee social networks. By mapping and analyzing these networks, Activate Networks serves various industry sectors, including healthcare, technology, political campaigns, and professional services. Its proprietary RealConnect™ platform provides unique, actionable insights that enhance marketing campaigns, health-behavior change initiatives, talent management, and innovation efforts. Through its technology, Activate Networks enables users to recognize connections among customers, employees, and professional communities, thereby driving measurable impact across multiple domains.
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