Empierus

What Empierus does

Empierus is a Chicago-based healthcare consulting firm founded in 2015 that delivers cost-reduction and operational improvement services to U.S. health systems, including Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs), Academic Medical Centers, and Community Hospitals. The firm's offering is organized into three core service lines: Financial Improvement (targeting non-labor expenses such as purchased services, IT services, pharmaceuticals, laboratory supplies, and physician preference items), IT Resource Optimization (hardware, software, connectivity, telecom, and managed services), and Operational Improvement (supply chain, inventory management, accounts payable modernization, and strategic sourcing). Underlying all three is an empirical, data-driven methodology that synthesizes client data, vendor data, stakeholder input, and market intelligence to produce quantifiable savings recommendations.

Empierus operates a project-based, quote-priced consulting model with multi-year contracts, executed by a small senior-led team (1-10 employees) supported by junior consultants and remote delivery capacity. Documented outcomes include $36M+ in savings delivered for Vizient clients in 2025, $500M+ in cumulative benefit dollars implemented across 30+ healthcare systems, and case-specific results such as $8M+ in annual savings from span-of-control assessments and $3.5M+ from data center migration engagements. The firm is led by Managing Partner Jeffrey Dineen, with senior practitioners drawn from Huron Consulting and Accenture.

In June 2026, Vizient acquired Empierus, folding the team and its IT-related indirect spend capabilities into Vizient's indirect spend and purchased services organization. Existing client relationships and contracts remained unchanged at the time of announcement, but the acquisition marks the end of Empierus's independent operating history and shifts future growth from standalone consulting expansion to integration within Vizient's broader healthcare performance improvement platform.

Name

Empierus

Legal name

Empierus

Website

https://empierus.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Acquired

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Empierus is a Chicago-based healthcare consulting firm that helps hospitals and health systems (IDNs, Academic Medical Centers, and Community Hospitals) reduce non-labor expenses and optimize IT and supply chain operations through data-driven, project-based engagements.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Chicago

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Healthcare Consulting Services: Professional consulting engagements focused on financial improvement, IT resource optimization, and operational improvement for healthcare providers. Services are delivered through project-based engagements with measurable outcomes.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Empierus is a healthcare management consulting firm that helps IDNs, Academic Medical Centers, and Community Hospitals identify and implement cost improvements across non-labor expenses, IT indirect spend, and supply chain operations. Its offerings center on three service lines—Financial Improvement, IT Resource Optimization, and Operational Improvement—delivered through project-based consulting engagements that combine data analysis, stakeholder engagement, and procurement/sourcing expertise to drive measurable bottom-line savings.

Product overview

Empierus offers a unified consulting services portfolio focused on healthcare cost reduction and optimization. The core offerings consist of Financial Improvement, IT Resource Optimization, and Operational Improvement services. Financial Improvement addresses non-labor expense reduction across purchased services, IT, pharmaceuticals, and supplies. IT Resource Optimization covers hardware, software, telecom, and managed services. Operational Improvement includes Supply Chain, Inventory Management, and Accounts Payable Modernization. The services work together to help healthcare organizations achieve measurable bottom-line improvements through a data-driven, stakeholder-supported approach.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Financial Improvement Consulting services helping hospitals identify and implement financial improvement of non-labor expenses including purchased services, information technology services and investments, pharmaceuticals, laboratory supplies and services, physician preference items, and other support services. Targeted at hospitals and health systems seeking measurable bottom-line improvements.
• IT Resource Optimization Consulting services enabling fiscally responsible IT decision-making and bottom-line value creation, helping healthcare stakeholders navigate new technologies, emerging threats, evolving price models, and growing pains. Includes hardware, software, connectivity, telecom, and managed services. Targeted at healthcare organizations seeking IT spend optimization.
• Operational Improvement Consulting solutions focused on solving operational issues within and on the periphery of the supply chain, often leveraging practical use of technology to deliver efficiencies and bottom-line value. Targeted at healthcare organizations seeking supply chain and back-office efficiencies.
• Supply Chain Services Supply chain cost reduction and optimization services including process standardization, vendor rationalization, merger integration, and GPO assessments/selection. Targeted at healthcare organizations seeking supply chain transformation.
• Inventory Management Services to identify slow-moving and excess products and determine whether inventory can be reallocated within the health system or sold for cash. Targeted at healthcare organizations seeking working-capital improvements from inventory optimization.
• Accounts Payable Modernization Process and cost efficiency improvements in the back office through automation, enabling a health system with $1 billion in non-salary spend to achieve $10 million (1%) in benefit. Targeted at healthcare organizations seeking back-office automation and AP efficiency.
• Strategic Sourcing Sourcing services for hardware, software, connectivity, and services including negotiation support, SaaS optimization, telecom expense solutions, and equipment refresh planning. Targeted at healthcare organizations seeking vendor-side procurement improvements.

Quantifiable outcome

• $36M+ in savings delivered for Vizient clients in 2025
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• VizientcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 June 2026Vizient acquired Empierus to expand capabilities in managing IT-related indirect spend for healthcare organizations. The Empierus team joined Vizient's indirect spend and purchased services organization, with existing client relationships and contracts remaining unchanged. Empierus previously helped deliver more than $36 million in savings for Vizient clients in 2025.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Huron Consulting: Huron is a large healthcare-focused consulting firm with a dedicated Healthcare practice that includes supply chain, IT, and financial performance improvement services. Andrew Gastwirth (Empierus) previously worked in Huron's Healthcare and Legal practice units, making it a closely comparable consulting competitor in the same domain.
• Premier Inc. Premier is a healthcare performance improvement company and GPO offering consulting and supply chain services to health systems. It directly competes with Vizient (Empierus's new parent) and offers overlapping purchased-services and supply chain optimization capabilities for similar IDN and AMC customers.
• Guidehouse (formerly Navigant Consulting): Guidehouse has a significant healthcare provider consulting practice covering cost transformation, supply chain, and IT optimization for health systems. It is a direct competitor in the same healthcare operations and financial improvement category Empierus serves.
• Impact Advisors: Impact Advisors is a healthcare IT consulting firm focused on implementation, optimization, and operational improvement for hospitals and health systems. It overlaps with Empierus's IT resource optimization and operational improvement service lines.
• ECG Management Consultants: ECG is a healthcare-specific consulting firm serving hospitals, health systems, and academic medical centers on strategy, operations, and financial performance. Its provider-only focus and AMC orientation make it a closely comparable specialist competitor to Empierus.
• TPC Systems (TPC): TPC is a healthcare-focused consulting and technology firm providing IT cost optimization, telecom expense management, and supply chain services to hospitals and health systems, directly overlapping with Empierus's IT resource optimization and strategic sourcing offerings.

Broad incumbents

• Vizient: Vizient is the largest member-owned healthcare performance improvement company and GPO in the U.S. It is now Empierus's parent company and the largest distributor of its IT-spend and indirect-spend capabilities, serving a far broader portfolio of provider clients than Empierus could reach independently.
• Accenture (Healthcare): Accenture operates a global healthcare practice offering strategy, technology, and operations consulting including supply chain and cost transformation. Andrew Gastwirth previously led Accenture's North American category for Fortune 500 accounts, and Accenture competes with Empierus for enterprise healthcare engagements.
• Deloitte (Healthcare): Deloitte's healthcare practice provides strategy, operations, and technology consulting to providers and payers, including supply chain and financial improvement work. As a Big 4 firm with deep provider relationships, it competes for the same large IDN and AMC engagements Empierus targets.
• KPMG (Healthcare): KPMG's healthcare practice delivers advisory and consulting services to providers including financial improvement, supply chain, and IT optimization. As a Big 4 firm it competes with Empierus for enterprise healthcare consulting mandates, particularly with large IDNs and AMCs.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

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Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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