PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SharedClarity, a joint effort by health care providers and one of the nation’s largest health benefits companies to study the long-term effectiveness of medical devices, today announced it has hired three experienced industry professionals for leadership positions with the company.
Joining SharedClarity are: Alex M. Brown, vice president of operations; Michael Georgulis Jr., vice president of strategic sourcing; and Jan F. Tankersley, vice president of sales and marketing.
“We’re building a new company with an excellent, first-rate team of industry professionals,” said Mark West, president of SharedClarity. “Each of our new vice presidents brings a great deal of experience to serve our members.”
SharedClarity will help health care providers improve patient outcomes by conducting physician-led studies to identify the best-performing devices implanted into patients for everything from heart problems to bad knees and hips. SharedClarity will use those study results and negotiate affordable purchasing agreements with manufacturers on behalf of its member health care providers.
SharedClarity’s members include Advocate Health Care, Baylor Health Care System, Dignity Health and UnitedHealthcare. The three health care systems employ about 100,000 people and serve more than 7 million patients per year at more than 850 locations nationwide.
As part of the management team, Brown will lead customer and supplier on-boarding and customer service operations. He joins the company after serving as director of operations for MedAssets in Dallas and has more than a decade of leadership and project management experience. He oversaw contract data management and contracting communications while managing and reducing the time to implement contracts by 50 percent with MedAssets.
Georgulis will lead the strategic direction for all sourcing operations and contracting practices. He joins SharedClarity after serving as vice president of strategic sourcing for Premier Health Alliance in Charlotte, N.C., where he managed a portfolio of supply-chain contracts valued at more than $20 billion.
Tankersley will direct all marketing, communication and business development strategies to drive organizational growth. Tankersley has held senior director and vice president positions in the health care, insurance and government industries. She was most recently senior director of marketing for Novation in Las Colinas, Texas.
SharedClarity plans to add more health systems in the coming months.
About SharedClarity
SharedClarity is a unique joint venture between health care systems and UnitedHealthcare to use data from tens of million of patients to study the long-term effectiveness of high-technology medial devices that have a high impact on patients. SharedClarity will use the results of the studies to select the best devices for patients and negotiate affordable purchasing agreements with manufacturers. For more information, please visit www.SharedClarity.net.
