Education & Newsletters
Premier's Advisor Live is a teleconference series on important topics of
reducing cost, improving quality & safety, and reducing risk. There is no
charge for the calls. We encourage you to gather a group and discuss the
issues afterwards.

Each individual should register separately so we can e-mail the link
to supporting materials and the program evaluation.
Upcoming Advisor Live programs
| Date/topic |
Speakers |
Registration |
May 20, 2008
2-3 ET
VTE Prevention: from quality to safety |
Alpesh Amin, M.D., M.B.A. Executive Director, Hospitalist
Program Medical Director, Anticoagulation Services, Vice Chair for Clinical
Affairs & Quality Department of Medicine University of California, Irvine
George Whitelaw, President of Strategic Marketing Technologies (SMT)
|
Register |
Advisor Live archive
Click on the archived topics below for program
details including speaker information, reference materials and audio files.
| Date |
Topic |
| 3/5/08 |
Lessons Learned from
HQID Top Performer - St. Vincent Health Center, Erie, PA |
| 2/5/08 |
How to use productivity analysis, education and process redesign to create
profitability in an outpatient setting |
| 1/23/08 |
Lessons Learned from Quality Demo (HQID) Top Performer – Charleston Area
Medical Center |
| 10/19/07 |
Session
III
|
| 9/26/07 |
Establishing Defensible and Profitable Pricing |
| 8/16/07 |
Session II
|
| 6/19/07 |
Healthcare Associated Infections:
What everyone needs to know |
| 5/22/07 |
Session I
|
| 4/18/07 |
Preventing
Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) |
| 2/21/07 |
Introducing
the Premier Performance Suite – Product Launch
|
| 1/31/07 |
Lessons
from Top Performers in Year 2 of the Premier/CMS HQID P4P Project |
| 12/20/06 |
Using Physician Order Sets to Improve Performance |
| 11/29/06 |
Automating Infection Control Surveillance using data mining technology |
| 10/25/06 |
Using Quality Measures for
Regulatory Reporting |
| 9/21/06 |
"Tired of pharmacist turnover?" Premier members share innovative
strategies to recruit and retain pharmacists |
| 9/13/06 |
The Burden of Venous Thromboembolism: Prevention and Quality of Care in the
Inpatient Setting |
| 8/30/06 |
Improving Outcomes in the OB Suite |
| 7/19/06 |
Performance Pays: Proving High Quality Care Costs Less and Saves Lives |
| 6/7/06 |
Leveraging Technology to Improve Heart Failure Performance |
| 5/10/06 |
Managing Labor Productivity: One System, One Tool, Five Variations |
| 4/12/06 |
Impact of Adverse Events: Results from Tufts-New England Medical Center study using Electronic Incident Reporting |
| 3/15/06 |
Heart Failure Discharges: Lessons from Pay for Performance |
| 3/14/06 |
To D or not to D: The Digital Mammography Decision |
| 2/15/06 |
Integrity of Clinical Documentation |
| 2/14/06 |
Better Performers in Cardiovascular Care |
| 2/09/06 |
Pneumococcal and Flu Vaccinations: Strategies for Improvement |
| 1/18/06 |
Improving Emergency Department Throughput: Benchmarks and Strategies |
| 1/10/06 |
Achieving Success with Supplier Diversity |
| 12/06/05 |
Growing with Premier: how to build a successful affiliate program |
| 11/30/05 |
Pay-for-Performance: CMS/Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration Year 1 Results |
| 10/26/05 |
Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) - A National Quality Partnership |
| 9/28/05 |
Safety and Quality Continuum - Using an Electronic Incident Record to Aggregate Disparate Data |
| 8/16/05 |
Using technology assessment to drive bottom-line performance |
| 8/10/05 |
Reduce Length of Stay, Improve Quality with Data and Best Practices |
| 7/12/05 |
Endovascular Interventions: Controlling costs in an increasingly challenging area |
| 6/23/05 |
Leadership's Role in Managing Rising Drug Expense |
| 6/15/05 |
SIP to SCIP: Preparing for additions to Surgical Infection Measures (SIP) under the 8th Scope of Work |
| 5/12/05 |
Keeping our environment healthy: green product practices |
| 5/04/05 |
Achieving Clinical and Operational Excellence in the Emergency Department |
| 4/12/05 |
Defining and Achieving Top Supply Chain Performance |
| 4/06/05 |
IHI's 100,000 Lives Campaign
|
| 3/09/05 |
Improving Patient Safety With Automated Incident/Error Reporting and Root Cause Analysis |
| 3/08/05 |
Innovation and Automation in Supply Chain Management |
| 2/02/05 |
Hardwiring Labor Management for Quality, Safety, and Efficiency |
| 1/5/05 |
Engaging Physicians in Care Standardization, Safety
Initiatives, and CPOE |
| 12/8/04 |
Supply Chain Performance Indicators: Identifying
opportunity for improvement |
| 11/3/04 |
Performance Dashboards: Balancing Outcomes, Satisfaction,
and Cost |
| 9/29/04 |
Public reporting and quality measurement: Digesting
healthcare's alphabet soup |
For more information on Advisor Live programs, please contact the
Premier Solution Center: 877.777.1552
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is available
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