Technology Leadership
Improving healthcare quality while safely reducing cost
More than 1,700 hospitals and 45,000 other healthcare providers use our powerful solutions to improve patient outcomes while safely reducing the cost of care.
The foundation of our solutions is clinical, financial, labor and supply data collected from hundreds of hospitals across the nation. Premier’s Perspective™ database is the largest clinical and operational comparative data warehouse in the nation, with over 4 terabytes of data, 3 billion records, 130 million patient discharges, and data from more than 700 hospitals. We unlock the power of that data to improve patient care through the unique technology, expertise, advocacy and knowledge-sharing capabilities of our alliance.
Quality & Safety
- Clinical benchmarking: Hundreds of hospitals use Clinical Advisor™ to improve patient outcomes while safely reducing the cost of care through benchmarking and analyzing performance across quality, safety, and utilization.
- Reporting of quality measures: Quality Measures Reporter™ is healthcare’s leading compliance application for regulatory reporting.
- Tracking errors and infections: The SafetySurveillor™ solution includes:
- Infection Control: A monitoring system to limit the spread of infection from patient to patient through automated tracking, alerts, analysis and reports.
- Pharmacy: Hospitals use Rx Optimizer to track the use of anti-infective drugs, enhance outcomes and reduce the costs associated with medication errors.
- Incident Management: Automated incident collection, review and follow-up, offering assessment, measurement systems and services for both clinical and operational improvement efforts.
- Patient and worker safety: Through its Web site and Safety Share newsletter, Premier’s Safety Institute is the leading source of safety information for hospitals and other healthcare providers.
- Insurance and risk management: Premier Insurance Management Services offers comprehensive insurance and risk management services to safely reduce the cost of healthcare while improving patient outcomes.
Supply Chain
- Group contracting: More than 1,500 hospitals and 45,000 other healthcare providers purchase $29 billion of supplies and services through Premier’s contracts, safely reducing the cost of healthcare.
- Electronic sourcing: Supply Chain Advisor is a flexible online service that allows hospitals to automate the business processes associated with managing the supply chain.
- Spend analytics: SpendAdvisor provides detailed comparative data that allows hospitals to analyze total supply spend and identify savings opportunities.
- Value analysis: ValueAdvisor offers hospitals an automated tool to track the value analysis process from identification, through analysis and decision-making and beyond implementation, to return on investment, both clinically and financially.
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Supply chain benchmarks:
- SupplyFocus: This comparative database allows hospitals to identify opportunities to reduce overall supply expense.
- Clinical Focus tools: SpineFocus, OrthopedicFocus and CardiacFocus provide blended and blinded pricing benchmarks in high-cost, high-margin physician preference areas.
Operations & Labor
- Labor benchmarking and productivity: Operations Advisor™ is a total labor management solution that offers productivity monitoring, assessment, and comparative data to support hospitals’ efforts to deploy staff in a way that best supports the delivery of high quality, cost effective healthcare.
Knowledge Transfer
- Online knowledge sharing: The Web-based Performance Improvement Portal provides access to best practices of top performers, methods, tools, and topical advice to fit the specific needs of the subscriber. The portal also provides a real-time collaborative environment with our experts, experts in the industry, and hospital peers.
- National teleconferences: Advisor Live teleconferences offer information and discussion on important quality improvement topics available to all of healthcare via regular national teleconferences.
- Supply chain improvement collaboratives: The Supply Chain Collaborative Breakthrough Series is an annual collaborative of hospitals working together to safely reduce the cost of care through sharing and implementing best practices in the clinical supply chain.
- Pay for performance readiness: The Pay for Performance Readiness Program offers analytical tools and services to prepare hospitals for the evolving reimbursement environment and Pay-for-Performance initiatives.
- Conferences and events: Throughout the year, we host educational programs and meetings featuring healthcare experts and peer-to-peer knowledge-sharing.
- Publications: We have a host of newsletters and other publications with information for hospitals and other healthcare providers on improving quality and safely reducing costs.
Premier Consulting Solutions
Our integrated approach draws insight from our unmatched data resources to accelerate financial, operational and clinical performance in ways that improve patient outcomes while safely reducing the cost of care. We help hospitals and health systems:
- Accelerate financial performance
- Accelerate service line performance
- Accelerate patient throughput
- Accelerate improvement in patient outcomes
Advocacy & Research
- Advocacy: Our Advocacy efforts are aimed at creating a legal and regulatory environment most conducive to the delivery of high-quality, cost-effective healthcare. Premier Advocacy is hospital-driven, grassroots-oriented, and value-based.
- Research services: To have the greatest impact for patients, we make our unrivalled data resources available to government agencies, academic healthcare researchers, private research groups and companies engaged in the research and development of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, and diagnostics.