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Eight Ohio hospitals select innovative infection control technology to better protect patients
Premier healthcare alliance’s SafetySurveillor™ continuously alerts of, detects and tracks infections via Web-based reporting tools
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (January 16, 2008) — The Premier Inc. healthcare alliance today announced that eight Ohio-based hospitals have joined the nearly 200 hospitals that have selected Premier’s SafetySurveillor™ as their Web-based tool used to detect and alert staff of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). SafetySurveillor protects patients by continuously tracking HAIs and antibiotic use to monitor prevention and control activities.
Ohio hospitals that selected SafetySurveillor to better protect patients while meeting public reporting requirements include:
- Kettering Health Network, Kettering – four hospitals;
- Summa Health System, Akron – two hospitals;
- A Cincinnati-based hospital system – two hospitals.
SafetySurveillor helps hospitals meet state-mandated public reporting of certain HAIs, including screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Clostridium difficile, some of the most common and harmful infections found in hospitals today. Due to the large volume of clinical data that needs to be analyzed, many hospitals have resources to do targeted surveillance of high-risk patients only. With the automated SafetySurveillor system, hospitals have the ability to detect HAIs, alert staff and facilitate timely intervention to reduce and prevent infections.
Premier’s SafetySurveillor is one of the HAI surveillance system software vendors participating in a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pilot to develop a standards-based solution for transmission of HAI data from existing commercial software systems to the agency's National Healthcare Safety Network.
Premier SafetySurveillor is integrated into the Premier Performance Suite™, which includes benchmarking, reporting analysis and real-time surveillance of clinical, safety, financial, operational, labor productivity and supply data. The Premier Performance Suite is powered by Perspective™, the largest integrated clinical, financial and operational comparative database in the nation, providing patient-level detail to identify opportunities for improvement in clinical quality and efficiency.
About Premier Inc., 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient
Serving 1,700 U.S. hospitals and more than 49,000 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.
Nearly 200 hospitals have selected Premier's real-time SafetySurveillor™ application to prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and optimize antibiotic use, protecting patients and reducing hospital costs.
Headquartered in San Diego, Premier has offices in Charlotte, N.C., Philadelphia, and Washington. For more information, visit www.premierinc.com.