The Charlotte Business Journal: Premier CEO Susan DeVore knows innovation will play a key role in fueling the transformation of healthcare. It's her job to help the Charlotte-based healthcare alliance identify and develop the ideas that will impact cost, quality, safety and the overall health of the population. "I wake up every day and say, 'How do we help accelerate improvement in healthcare across the country?" DeVore says. She has been with 1,700-employee Premier for 11-plus years, serving as chief executive since 2009.
Premier, Inc. is a healthcare improvement company uniting an alliance of approximately 4,350 United States hospitals and health systems and approximately 300,000 other providers and organizations. It operates through two segments: Supply Chain Services and Performance Services. The Supply Chain Services segment includes the Companyâs group purchasing organizations (GPO), supply chain co-management, purchased services, and direct sourcing activities. The Performance Services segment consists of three sub-brands, which include PINC AI, the Companyâs technology and services platform; Contigo Health, the Companyâs direct-to-employer business; and Remitra, the Companyâs digital invoicing and payables business. It delivers technology-enabled platform that offers critical supply chain services, clinical, financial, operational and value-based care software as a service (SaaS) as well as clinical and enterprise analytics licenses, consulting services, and third-party administrator services.
PREMIER, INC. 
