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Premier healthcare alliance to offer new services to help alliance member hospitals improve capital equipment sourcing, selection and procurement
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (June 16, 2009) – The Premier healthcare alliance today announced that it will offer its alliance members a capital equipment catalogue from Attainia Inc.
As a value-added service, all Premier alliance members will have access to Attainia's WATCH equipment catalogue, which provides detailed information and specification sheets for more than 27,000 products from over 2,000 suppliers in 2,800 categories.
"Sourcing, selecting, budgeting, planning and purchasing capital equipment can be a difficult and time-consuming proposition," said Premier Purchasing Partners President Mike Alkire. "Access to Attainia's catalogue speeds the sourcing and selection process, freeing up valuable resources and improving accuracy, all of which lead to cost savings for our alliance member hospitals."
"Attainia's BUDGET and PLAN family of applications have improved the capital equipment budgeting and equipment planning process for Premier members for years,” said John Biggers, group vice president of Premier Purchasing Partners. "Our goal is to extend these cost saving benefits to all Premier members at the earliest point in the capital equipment supply chain, and WATCH allows us to do that."
About Attainia Inc.
Attainia is the largest supplier of capital equipment planning systems to the
healthcare industry. The company is renowned for innovative products that create
substantial improvements in cost-savings and efficiency for both hospital and
industry partners. In addition to supporting capital equipment planning with the
"PLAN" family of products, Attainia supports healthcare organizations' capital
financial budgeting with the "BUDGET" family, and total capital equipment demand
visibility with "PREDICT." For more information, visit
www.attainia.com.
About the Premier healthcare alliance, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient
Premier is a performance improvement alliance of more than 2,400 U.S. hospitals
and nearly 70,000 other healthcare sites working together to achieve high quality,
cost-effective care. Owned by not-for-profit hospitals, Premier maintains
the nation's most comprehensive repository of clinical, financial and outcomes
information and operates a leading healthcare purchasing network. A world leader
in helping deliver measurable improvements in care, Premier works with the
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the United Kingdom's National
Health Service North West to improve hospital performance. Headquartered in
Charlotte, N.C., Premier also has offices in San Diego, Philadelphia and
Washington.
http://www.premierinc.com