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Premier healthcare alliance experts to lead discussions on pay-for-performance, patient quality and safety
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (February 6, 2008) – Leaders from the Premier healthcare alliance will speak around the country in February, sharing insights regarding patient safety and quality, along with pay-for-performance (P4P) based on Premier’s Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) project with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Premier President and Chief Executive Officer Richard A. Norling will present information on best practices related to improved quality, safety and P4P at the Association of California Nurse Leaders’ annual conference February 12 in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Norling will also discuss P4P related to the HQID project at the Health Executives Network meeting on February 22 in Phoenix.
On February 25, Eugene Kroch, Ph.D., vice president and chief scientist, will join Roger Park, MS, research manager for HIMSS Analytics, to discuss correlating electronic medical record (EMR) capabilities with quality and efficiency outcomes at the HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition in Orlando, Fla. The HIMSS Analytics™ EMR Adoption Model and quality/efficiency indexes, created by CareScience and now a part of Premier, are combined to identify the statistical relationship between levels of EMR implementation and performance in 300 hospitals.
Vice President and Medical Director Richard A Bankowitz, MD, MBA, FACP, will be a featured speaker at the Positioning Pharmaceutical Brands Conference February 25-26 in Philadelphia.
Jeanne McGrayne, senior director and managing principal, will be a featured speaker at the Society for Health Systems Conference and Expo February 24 in Orlando, Fla. The HQID is the first national project of its kind, designed to determine if economic incentives to hospitals are effective at improving the quality of inpatient care. As part of the project, more than 250 hospitals submit clinical quality data to Premier through the Perspective™ data warehouse. CMS, which approved a three-year extension of the project in February, then uses the data to identify and reward top performers in five clinical areas. Premier recently launched “QUEST: High Performing Hospitals” based on many of the same principles used in the HQID project. The goal of QUEST is to improve patient safety and quality in the nation’s hospitals while safely reducing healthcare costs. QUEST participating hospitals report data to Premier on a set of clearly defined performance measures encompassing aspects of quality, efficiency, safety and patient satisfaction. Premier analyzes the data, facilitates sharing of best practices, and provides incentives for top-performing hospitals.
About Premier Inc., 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient
Serving more than 2,000 U.S. hospitals and nearly 50,000 other healthcare
sites, the Premier healthcare alliance and its members are transforming
healthcare together. Owned by not-for-profit hospitals, Premier operates one of
the leading healthcare purchasing networks and the nation's most comprehensive
repository of hospital clinical and financial information. A subsidiary operates
one of the nation's largest policy-holder owned, hospital professional liability
risk-retention groups. A world leader in helping healthcare providers deliver
dramatic improvements in care, Premier is working with the United Kingdom's
National Health Service North West and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services to improve hospital performance. Headquartered in San Diego, Premier
has offices in Charlotte, N.C., Philadelphia, and Washington. For more
information, visit www.premierinc.com.