Bruce Johnson
Chief Executive Officer

As the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of GHX, Bruce Johnson leads an organization that brings together healthcare providers, manufacturers, distributors and group purchasing organizations in a collaborative and connected community to improve efficiencies, visibility and accuracy in the healthcare supply chain.

A key member of the GHX executive leadership team since the company was founded in March 2000, Johnson has played a critical role in the creation of a secure, global platform that connects a significant percentage of hospitals in North America and in Europe. In the U.S. alone, GHX connects hospitals representing more than 82 percent of the licensed beds in the U.S. with the suppliers from whom they purchase more than 90 percent of their medical-surgical supplies.

Johnson is currently leading an initiative through which the GHX community of users is working to drive $5 billion in costs out of healthcare in the next five years. To date, GHX has documented more than $1 billion in labor savings alone.

Prior to being named CEO in 2007, Johnson served as the company’s chief operating officer. In this role, Johnson helped negotiate and manage the GHX acquisition of Neoforma in 2006, while overseeing professional services, sales, marketing, business development and corporate communications. As a result of the merger, GHX became the world’s largest electronic trading exchange in healthcare in terms of participation by healthcare suppliers and providers.

Before joining GHX, Johnson spent 12 years at GE Healthcare in a variety of management roles in sales and marketing. 

Johnson earned a bachelors degree in electrical engineering from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and his master’s in business administration from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.