Premier in the news
Hospital takes on septicemia, saves 36 lives;
HealthLeaders Media; 1/24/12: East Alabama Medical Center,
McLeod Regional improve care through Premier's QUEST collaborative.
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CBO report on Medicare demos draws mixed response;
HealthLeaders Media; 1/23/12: Blair Childs, senior vice president with Premier, discusses the CBO report on Medicare demos. He explains that change will take time.
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Social business: If you build it, will they come?;
CIO Insight; 1/19/12: Denise Hatzidakis, chief technology officer with Premier, discusses how Premier is a year into its multifaceted community and analytics project, known as the Integrated Performance Platform.
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Premier healthcare alliance charts nationwide performance gains;
Healthcare Informatics; 1/18/12:
Susan DeVore, Premier's president and CEO, and Blair Childs, the alliance's senior vice president of public affairs, announced the results/achievements
from 157 QUEST member hospitals over the past few years and how they could indeed be industry-leading going forward.
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What makes a high performing hospital? Ask Premier;
Healthcare IT News; 1/18/12: "QUEST hospitals show what's truly possible in healthcare," says Susan DeVore, Premier president and CEO. "Together they have proven that top performance can be achieved by any hospital, no matter where they are, what their patient mix or their reimbursement levels."
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Premier opposes MedPAC recommendations for hospital payment
updates; Becker's Hospital Review; 1/17/12:
Premier healthcare alliance released a statement on the MedPAC recommendations for hospital payment updates, according to a company news report.
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IBM kicks off lotusphere with a focus on social business;
eweek.com; 1/16/12:
Denise Hatzidakis, chief technology officer with Premier, discusses how healthcare leaders are using technology and social media to improve care.
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Building accountable care, block by block;
Healthcare Informatics; 1/14/12: Joe Damore, vice president with Premier, discusses lessons being learned about accountable care in Premier's collaboratives.
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A prescription for drug shortages;
JAMA; 1/11/12:
Hospitals and outpatient surgical centers have been the
first affected by the shortages of sterile injectables. The Premier
healthcare alliance surveyed 228 hospitals in the second
half of 2010 and found that 80 percent of them had experienced
shortages that led to "delay or cancellation of patient care
intervention."
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Top ten articles of 2011: Medical errors and more;
Health Affairs; 1/9/12:
Driving Population Health Through Accountable Care Organizations by Susan DeVore and Wes Champion with Premier, makes the list for one of the top articles of 2011 in Health Affairs.
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Schumer pushes plan to ensure hospitals and patients get medicine they need; WKBW News; 1/5/12:
The frequency and impact of drug shortages have risen to
critical levels, more than tripling since 2005, and affecting
all segments of healthcare. According to a report from the
Premier healthcare alliance, in 2010, over 240 drugs were either
in short supply or completely unavailable and more than 400
generic equivalents were backordered for greater than five days.
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Top 12 healthcare quality concerns in 2012; HealthLeaders
Media; 1/4/12: Mike Alkire, COO with the Premier
healthcare alliance, explains drug shortages present a danger to public
health. In hospitals, a shortage may delay necessary medical procedures.
Substitution of similar medications, if available, may lead to errors and
adverse events.
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Hospitals routinely scramble to cope with increased drug shortages;
The Hartford Courant; 1/4/12: "There is evidence, in my view, that
these drugs are potentially hoarded by some of the distributors, kept away
from the general market and then sold at those inflated prices," Blumenthal
said at a press conference at Hartford Hospital. Citing another study by
Premier, a healthcare industry analyst, Blumenthal said these practices can
increase drug prices by 800 to 1,000 percent.
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