Ricoh awarded document management contract by Premier

Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment and advanced document management solutions and services, today announced a contract win with one of the nation's top healthcare purchasing networks, Premier Purchasing Partners, L.P. of the Premier healthcare alliance. The document management contract covers a vast range of management needs including document creation, storage and distribution among the healthcare industry nationwide. Ricoh's technology, services and software-based solutions address the changing industry needs around information collection, replication and storage of healthcare documents for healthcare organizations nationwide.

"Premier reaches more than 2,400 U.S. hospitals and nearly 70,000 other healthcare sites each year. Ricoh's software-based systems and solutions go beyond traditional organization and management of electronic and paper documents and will bring speed and accuracy to Premier's aggressive drive and commitment to deliver high quality, cost-effective services to all of its members," said Dave Barwick, Director of Healthcare, Ricoh Americas Corporation.

The contract also includes software-based solutions that organize and manage electronic and paper documents throughout an organization. Ricoh's contract with Premier will focus on paper forms – both stock and non-stock; the conversion, management and archiving of paper to electronic documents; all document imaging needs; and both on-site and off-site management of print shop functions.

Ricoh's software based document solutions not only help to mitigate the issues and challenges that paper forms bring to health care organizations, but they address the costs associated with printing and provide rules management across the enterprise.