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Charlotte, NC-based Premier, Inc. has Appointed Joseph M. Pleasant as Chief Information Officer.
About the Company
As a leading national healthcare solutions organization, Premier, Inc. collaborates with healthcare organizations to improve supply chain management, decrease healthcare costs, integrate data and improve the health of communities. As an industry leader, Premier has created one of the most comprehensive database of actionable data, best practices and cost reduction strategies. We enable our members to collaborate easily and efficiently improve their quality outcomes, while reducing costs. By engaging members and revealing new opportunities, we empower our alliance to improve performance like no one else in healthcare can.
About the Person
Joseph M. (Joe) Pleasant is Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President of Premier, Inc., the largest healthcare alliance in the United States, with an estimated annual purchasing volume in excess of $25 billion and more than 200 Healthcare systems that own or operate some 850 institutions. Premier also has affiliations with another 900 hospitals. Prior to being appointed to his current position as Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President in charge of Premier’s Information Systems, Mr. Pleasant served as Chief Administrative Officer of SunHealth, Inc., one of Premier’s predecessor organizations. During his 25 years with SunHealth, Mr. Pleasant held numerous positions that included senior management consultant, relationship manager for owners in Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland, senior Human Resources executive and CIO. In his current position as CIO, Mr. Pleasant oversees Premier’s information systems infrastructure that includes legacy, enterprise, and web enabled offerings. Mr. Pleasant is past Chairman and a founding member of the Coalition for Healthcare eStandards (CHeS), a fellow member of HIMSS, and a founding member of CHIME. Pleasant is a leading industry expert and proponent of a unique device identification system (UDI) for medical devices and products. He has worked extensively with all participants in the supply chain – from providers to distributors and manufacturers – in efforts to move the industry toward a universal product numbering system. Mr. Pleasant is involved in national efforts to improve the Healthcare supply chain and serves on Board of Directors of both the National Alliance for Healthcare Information Technology (NAHIT) and GS1 and is a member of the Health Industry Distributors Association’s Supply Chain Advisory Council. Mr. Pleasant is past President of the North Carolina Chapter of HIMSS and chaired HIMSS’s 2006 Annual Conference Education Committee. A cum laude graduate of N.C. State University in Engineering, Mr. Pleasant holds a Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of North Carolina.
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